What is a BPM Suite?
Modern BPM projects involve a new type of software often referred to as BPMS (Business Process Management Suites).A BPMS is a software that will handle the typical activities which constitute business process management: design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization.
One practical characteristic in the field of BPM Suites is the reduction of the business-IT divide. While business groups are faced with a dynamic, ever-changing business environment, IT groups are looking for ways to deliver new solutions while leveraging and managing their existing infrastructure. A robust Business Process Management System (BPMS) can address the needs of both groups in a collaborative manner.
Why you need a BPMS?
The benefits of a BPMS reach from the mail room to the board room and beyond. With business oriented web services, a BPM Suite provides tactical benefits that significantly enhance application creation and extension, while delivering strategic benefits to companies that leverage quality improvement methodology and reinvent themselves as process-managed enterprises.
- Improve your business processes on a continuous basis
- Sustain your competitive advantages
- Solve business problems not addressed by packaged software
- Run your business the way you want, not the way the software wants
- Know what’s going on in your business to know how to stay on track
- Manage the entire process, not just the fragments
- Change your processes without needing to change out your software
- Innovate in your business, do it differently, change it quickly
- Have analytics at your finger tips based on both current and historical process data
- Perform processes consistently
The BPMS market has evolved to become the fastest growing segment in enterprise software. Recent reports from international analysts IDC, Gartner or Forrester confirmed a growth of 30% annually, which is poised to be sustained until 2013.
