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Business Process Management (BPM) vision - strategy


Overview BPM is many things to many people. However, it has a unique position in the enterprise as the intersection between business and information technology, encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyse operational business processes involving humans, organizations, applications, documents and other sources of information. BPM differs from business process reengineering, a management approach popular in the 1990s, in that it does not aim at one-off revolutionary changes to business processes, but at their continuous evolution. In addition, BPM usually combines management methods, such as Total Quality Management, with Information Technology - where a Service Orientated Architecture is a key enabler. BPM covers the activities performed by organizations to manage and, if necessary, improve their business processes. While such a goal is hardly new, software tools and services as part of a Business Process Management Suite (BPM Suites) have made such activities achievable at reasonable cost and value. Agenda The BPM Vision strategy briefing is aimed at both lead business and technical decision makers providing an introduction to Microsofts Approach to Business Process Management and Microsofts Business Process Management Suite. This one day briefing covers the discipline of managing operational business processes on the Microsoft BPM Platform suite through a continuous Business Process Management Life Cycle Model. The Model serves as reference point for the briefing to highlight how Microsoft BPM Suite of technologies and tools help to enable effective execution of Business Process Management in the Enterprise. The briefing covers topics such as:

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Welcome and BpM Keynote BpM and the BpM Lifecycle the BpM Suite what is it?

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Microsoft officially announced its approach to BPM at the Gartner 2007 BPM Conference. What is Microsofts stratdeScriptiOn egy and focus and how will it bring value to enterprise organizations of all sizes? Many definitions of BPM reference an operational business processes lifecycle. What are the main features of this lifecycle and what is important to who in your enterprise and when? We need to decide what the functional features are for the tools and services to deliver a full BPM Suite. A BPM Suite is now a recognized software solution category that many enterprise organizations are evaluating or incorporating into their long term server and tools infrastructure. Lets look at these functions and features and map them back to the process lifecycle. Microsofts approach to BPM is an explicit mix of core BPM tool and platform services with strategic partner add-on technologies for specific BPM features, if required. What are these core offerings? What are the extended partner offerings and what do we use when? Lets take a closer look at the core offerings for BPM by demonstration across the Microsoft Office and Server Technologies and Tools. Lets take a closer look at a full Microsoft BPM Suite, by demonstration that is extended through a Partner add-in that executes across the process lifecycle. Microsoft has a host of customers delivering BPM today. Lets take a look at real world operational processes, streamlined and automated through the Microsoft BPM Suite of offerings.

Microsoft Approach to BpM native Microsoft BpM the Microsoft BpM Suite Microsoft BpM customer case Stories

At the conclusion You will have a better understanding of how Microsoft and its partners can help your organization achieve its strategic BPM objectives. primary Audience Business and Technical Decision Makers contact information Please contact your Microsoft Account Manager or Solution Sales Specialist to engage with the Real World SOA Centre

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