The Gears of Business Process and BPM

What is Business Process and Business Process Management (BPM)?

Business Process is an activity or set of activities that will accomplish a specific organizational goal. Business Process Management is a systematic approach to improving those processes.

And BPM is a discipline invovling any combination of modeling, automation, execution, control, measurement and optimization of business activity flows, in support of enterprise goals, spanning systems, employees, customers and partners within and beyond the enterprise boundaries. BPM is not about automating business process (in the “paving the cowpaths” meaning) but about improving them. The same way that “reengineering” a process is about not simply automating what is currently there.

On the other hands, BP needs BPM which is best thought of as a business practice, ecompassing techiques and structured methods.

Additional BPM specific acronyms include BPMP (Business Process Management Platform), BPMS (Business Process Management Suite), iBPMS ( Intelligent Business Process Management Suite).

The basic BPMP is a set of tools. An example of this type of application would be  iWorkflow.

The BPMS lays a foundation for business and IT to collaborate throughout the design and execution of process. iBPMS is at the apex application of the process world. K2 meets all these needs: See K2 Workflow and BPM.

inFORM Decisions carries both products, and can help any type of organization carve out their process needs.  See our software here: Workflow Software

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