Business Process Management Tools

Business Process Management Tools

If you don't already know, Business Process Management is also referred to at BPM. I would like to cover what is part of the business process management tools you can use to help your business or enterprise processes. The role of the tools and resources you select should be geared towards the problem you are trying to solve. A business process by definition can be many different things, and often means something different to people from various business types and fields. There is usually a requirement to have a base model to use for your process and if you don't already have something like this, you will need an analysis and modeling tool to help you map out your existing processes in order to optimize them.

Who Offers Business Process Management Tools

Some of the major vendors of process management tools include Wipro, Microsoft Sharepoint, IDS Scheer, Appian, Oracle, Lombardi Software, Metastorm, Pegasystems, Savvion, Ascentn, Bluespring, Tibco Software, Ultimus and Cordys. They offer suites and packages for modeling, asset tracking and management, process management, process deployment tools, business rules and more. There are also plenty of business process management tool vendors that offer out of the box, industry specific, solutions. These out of the box management solutions allow any business or company to immediately get up and rolling with very little problem.

Purpose of the process management tools

The reason more and more businesses and enterprise companies are implement full process management suites is to improve operations, thereby boosting business performance and efficiency. This is translated to someone like you and me to be cost saving and profit increase. Something that all shareholders like to hear, hence the huge increase in the vendor market for full process management suites. A business process management tools brings work flow to the business with checks and balances that help the process improve itself and react to customer and client needs. It promotes efficiency while still being flexible. Most BPM suites integrate fully with technology as it's base of operations. The management tools bring all the related processes together into a structured service provided to the end user or client.

Other Business process management tool considerations

When you are a stage where you need to select the tool for the job you should involve your companies IT department as early on as possible. This is necessary in the early stages to balance both the business and technology factors. All the tools are technology based and require only single server or machines, to multiple servers, backups and configurations to implement. Small scale deployments can involve as little as a single server for the full suite ( Business Process Management engine, Application server and Database repository ). For large scale, enterprise class deployments you will likely need to have multiple servers and systems dedicated to each part of the process management tool suite that includes clustering, redundancy, load-balancing, fail-over, disaster recovery plans, secure backups and all the support staff around that. The size of the implementation is usually directly proportionate to the company size and number of staff, the more processes and users on the system, the bigger it will need to be.