Featured Whitepapers

Achieving Operational Responsiveness Through
Responsive Process Management

Knowing what will happen in your business, not just what has happened

Operational responsiveness is the ability of businesses to respond to changing conditions as they occur, enabling business leaders to capitalize on more opportunities, drive greater efficiencies, make real-time course corrections and reduce risk. Itís more than IT agility. Itís more than business process optimization. Itís about plugging decision makers at every level into business activities and empowering them to continuously respond to the unexpected and effect change directly. Being operationally responsive is being able to achieve the highest level of business performance.

Building Responsive Enterprises: One decision at a Time

Visibility, prediction, impact and action are the keys

Organizations must become more responsive. Rapid changes in business conditions, global competitors and increasingly networked customers are forcing the issue. Organizations must improve visibility, increase their ability to predict, accurately assess impact and take prompt action to survive.

James Taylor
CEO, Decision Management Solutions

Guide to Process Rules

Business rules what should or should not be allowed

The purpose of this white paper is to compare conventional business rule techniques with the process-centric business rule paradigm. This white paper describes how Progress Savvion BusinessManager captures and implements process rules.

Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Process Management Vendor (Competitor Focus)

Choosing the next-generation business process management platform

Ovum overviews Progress Software's Savvion BPM Suite. Learn how the suite is segmented into three principal areas, each corresponding to a stage in a typical process lifecycle: process discovery and analysis, traditionally associated with business analysts; automation of process execution, carried out by process developers; and process optimisation tasks, typically involving line-of-business executives.

Understanding Usage Patterns An Enterprise BPMS Must Support

Progress Savvion BPMS all these usage patterns

This whitepaper discusses seven important and frequent usage patterns. Progress Savvion BPMS addresses all these usage patterns to meet needs of your enterprise. Effective enterprise deployment of BPMS requires an understanding of different usage patterns. An enterprise class BPMS must support these usage patterns, in addition to being scalable and highly reliable.

Process Center of Excellence

Introduction, Benefits and Approach to Set-up

Processes are among the most important assets of any organization. This has been acknowledged by business leaders across all industries. In Gartner report ìLeading in Times of Transition: The 2010 CIO Agenda,î improving business processes is ranked number the one priority of CIOs in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Business Process Management (BPM) is defined as a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology.

BPM helps companies to cope with frequent market changes and increasing competitive pressure by increasing productivity and facilitating better cost control and risk management. Simply put, BPM helps companies to constantly monitor and continuously boost their operational efficiency.