BPM at Impact 2011

What does Business Process Management (BPM) have to do with Decision Management? Come to Impact 2011 for the answer. More than 100 dedicated sessions, hands-on labs and demos featuring IBM BPM and Decision Management solutions make Impact the largest BPM and Decision Management event in the world. Learn how to make BPM projects successful and make that success repeatable. Find out how BPM technologies can streamline and automate business processes across the entire business network. Sessions explain how to achieve the automation and improvement of operational decisions that drive business processes and applications.

The Forbes Business Leadership Forum offers over 20 sessions on BPM and Decision Management, helping business learn how to work together with IT to improve processes. Other sessions show how line-of-business managers can gain visibility into and control of decision logic in legacy mainframe applications.

In addition, more than 80 Technology Program sessions cover everything about BPM from how to get started, to deploying quality applications, to building a center of excellence. Hear technical deep dives and IBM client speakers describe their implementation experiences. The Technology Program also explores how using business rule management systems with BPM enables businesses to adapt to new customer requirements.

IBM's BPM and Decision Management portfolio provides the end-to-end process visibility and control that is critical for organizations to survive and excel in today's constantly changing business environment. Learn how to apply business rules, event processing and analytics to automate and improve decision making in critical business systems. Find out how doing so enables you to continuously improve business processes. Combining BPM with Decision Management capabilities enables you to:

• Improve responsiveness to critical business situations
• Determine the best response for a variety of operational decisions
• Rapidly implement changes to meet market needs and competitive threats
• Reuse decision logic across processes and systems
• Ensure compliance with business policies and external regulations

To improve processes business users must be able to easily and quickly change the decisions that drive them – decisions that can help processes maximize efficiency, make employees more productive, and improve interactions with customers, partners or suppliers. Rules, events and analytics bring critical capabilities for making processes more responsive, intelligent and automated, all of which can bring you competitive advantage. At Impact, discover how BPM and Decision Management can lower cost, improve return on investment, optimize business results and bring innovation to your organization.

Other ways to learn more about BPM and Decision Management at Impact 2011:

• Hear a vision of the future for BPM and Decision Management in the Day 2 General Session.
• Attend each opening session to explore IBM product roadmaps and hear client speakers describing their experiences with BPM and Decision Management.
• Experience the latest products in 10 hands-on labs.
• Obtain guidance and answers to your questions at the Meet-the-Experts sessions.
• Visit the Solution Center, which showcases BPM and Decision Management products and offerings.