What is BPM | Business Process Management Impact Blog Skip to main content link. Accesskey S Skip to tab navigation link. Accesskey 1 Skip to sub navigation. ibm.com Home Solutions Services Products Support & downloads My IBM Home Profiles Communities Blogs Bookmarks Activities Files Wikis Help Log In Browse Blogs My Blog My Updates Project Management Tools That Work BPM Process Modeling This section describes some of the terms and concepts of process mapping, modeling and analysis. At the end of the section you will find some free tools you can download to help you get started. Process Framework is a way to standardize the naming and numbering of your processes as well as a way to organize them in a hierarchy. It also expresses which processes are typically core to the value of the customer and which are supporting management processes. Example from APQC's Education Industry Process Framework Process Mapping - typically thought of as a static process flow diagram. diagram that shows the sequence of events and activities/tasks that occur in a process. Using visual aids to depict a process helps facilitate process understanding, not just because the end result is a picture, but because the process of noodling through process steps and decision points results in a much better understood process (by the analyst author) and is then much more readily communicated, from the OMG
Adam Deane Project Management Articles BPMN Process Modeling with Process Modeler for Microsoft Visio Integration Developer News: Architecting the Intelligent Enterprise with SOA, BPM, Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Computing Beyond BPM: Why Dynamic Case Management Should Be Your Top Priority in 2010 Topic Description By Karin Monsler Ondricek, Group Product Marketing Manager, EMC Documentum Platform, EMC Corporation , 03/31/2010 Print this article Email this article Talk Back! Write to Editor It's no secret that business process management (BPM) offers value to most industries by helping organizations increase productivity and reduce costs. Business Process Management has already helped many organizations revamp a wide variety of processes and typically shows a positive return on investment. The basics of BPM -- repeatable, predictable tasks -- remain critical, but many businesses have collaborative or complex human processes that have not been automated and are in dire need of the benefits BPM promises. A better way to reduce cycle times and ensure compliance is to organize the process around a case construct and to automate the capture, the information aggregation, the collaboration and the customer communications that are all present throughout the case lifecycle.
MDM In 2012: What Was, What Will Be . . . And What Won’t Be Happy New Year! As we kick off 2012, I’d like to reflect on what was accomplished during the past year in the “trusted data” areas of master data management (MDM), data quality (DQ), and data governance and consider what we might expect in the year to come. I also hear quite a bit of noise from vendors and analysts alike about what they want the MDM market to be in 2012, so I wanted to share my thoughts on what’s real and what (in my opinion) remains hype. I also just completed Forrester’s December 2011 Global MDM Survey of 274 MDM professionals. Let’s first reflect on what I’ve witnessed from my clients’ MDM journeys throughout 2011: Data governance remained a challenge. With 2011 wrapped up, here’s what I expect to see in 2012: M&A acquisition activity to return. Equally as important, all hype aside, here’s what MDM will NOT be about in 2012: MDM in the cloud? I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially if you think there are any major trends I might have missed!
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