Process

Business process management for continuous innovation - Deploy innovative business models quickly with re-usable and optimized processes, adapting the enterprise to changing opportunities and threats.

Start by modeling an underperforming process, remove bottlenecks, then simulate and deploy the optimized process. Next steps: create flexible linkages between multiple processes across the enterprise and outside the firewall to suppliers and partners. Then, monitor the process to measure and track performance.

Links and Resources

Research

• Quocirca
  BPM and SOA - The role of composite functionality in facilitating flexible business processes
• AMR Research
  SAP, IBM, GXS, and Business Process Suites by Bruce Richardson (February 02, 2005)
• Forrester Research
  Best Practices: Getting Started With BPM By Sharyn Leaver with Eric Schmitt

• Gartner Warns: "SOA Will Fail Without Governance"
• SOA as a catalyst for better IT Governance

• WebSphere Business Integration & SAP

• Business Process Management: Modeling through Monitoring Using WebSphere V6 Products
• Best Practices for Using WebSphere Business Modeler and Monitor
• Technical Overview of WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer