Business Process Management

January 15, 2009

Business Process Management, a set of activities, is essential for a new or existing business in a way that it helps an organization to optimize current business processes and future organizational and operational changes.

Business process management is done with the help of different tools that help in capturing, modeling, designing, integrating, deploying, testing, measuring and maintaining several business activities. The success or failure of each company depends on how good or bad it is able to manage the entire life cycle of its processes.

Need for Business Process Management:

To plan for a new business or for a new change in the business.
To avoid the common mistakes that happens in a project.
To document business processes in a common language to help IT and non-IT team members.
To draw business modeling and data modeling diagrams and to capture business rules in a way we want them.
To implement enterprise architecture or enterprise integration architecture (EAI) or ETL architecture.
To measure data by using business intelligence tools.
To enhance business to business transactions.

Advantages of Business Process Management (BPM):

BPM Models:

BPM’s activities like Modeling, Automating, Monitoring, Analyzing, and improving the business processes helps an organization to get good profits in less time.
BPM’s business process models visualize the activities within the organization and business-to-business transactions.
BPM’s process flow models visualize the process flows within the organization and business-to-business transactions and the relationships between process flow.
BPM’s data flow models visualize the data flow within the organization and business-to-business transactions.
BPM’s decomposition diagrams for business process modeling, process flow diagrams and data flow diagrams visualize the processes and activities in a detailed manner.

Workflow:

BPM’s workflow helps to define, create, execute, automate and manage processes within the organization and business-to-business-transactions to get more productivity.

Documentation:

The entire business process procedures can be documented in a shared multi user repository. This provides technical and non-technical persons to understand the different processes that occur in each departments of the organization, its performance and the outcome of each business processes.