Business Process Management

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Business Process Management

The process by which a company seeks to align all its departments and activities toward the same goal. In general, this goal is to deliver the best product to customers or clients. Business process management aims for high efficiency, particularly by openness to new ideas in both information technology and human resources. BPM activities are divided into design, modeling, execution, monitoring and optimization. See also: Six Sigma.

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Business Consultancy and Audit Industry : Global Business Process Management (BPM) Industry

Global Business Process Management (BPM) Industry

Appian is a leading provider of business process management (BPM) technology that helps organizations design, manage, and optimize their business processes.

Appian to Deliver Expert BPM Insights as Premier Sponsor of the Gartner Business Process Management Summit

Ultimus will also be on hand to discuss the latest innovations in business process management as well as to demonstrate the capabilities of the Ultimus BPM Suite powered by Adaptive Discovery([R]).

Business Process Management Leader to Sponsor and Exhibit at the Gartner BPM Summit

Small and medium sized organizations that want to make use of the power of Business Process Management can begin realizing ROI immediately because there are no significant up-front investments and minimum startup costs.

Appian Announces On-Demand Subscription Service for its Award-Winning Business Process Management Suite

s Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2006, co-authored by Janelle Hill and Jim Sinur, and published on June 28, 2006.

Savvion Announces Record 2006 and Extends Leadership in Business Process Management Market

Savvion[R], the leading business process management (BPM) company, today announced it has earned Certified status in Microsoft's Partner Program, which recognizes Savvion's expertise and impact in the technology marketplace.

Savvion Attains Certified Partner Status in Microsoft Partner Program

Price is president and CEO of Savvion, a Silicon Valley based software firm and the industry's leading business process management (BPM) company with more than 300 customers worldwide, including 25 of the Fortune 100.

Silicon Valley CEO Prepares for Doubleheader at Daytona International Speedway

During the year, the company introduced two new products, Lombardi for Office 2003[TM] and Lombardi OEM Edition[TM], both of which are designed to further simplify the adoption and expansion of Business Process Management for end users and software vendors.

Award-Winning Lombardi BPM Suite Accelerates Sales and New Customer Growth in 2006

Since that time, the vendor has expanded its scope to include enterprise application integration (EAI), electronic data interchange (EDI), and, most recently, business process management (BPM), giving it the most comprehensive and easy-to-use integration suite on the market.

Independent Research Firm Names webMethods a Leader in Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites

This full-feature business process management suite (BPMS) includes an Eclipse-based process modeling environment for codeless development, extensive support for both human-to-human and system-to-system task flow, business rules management, and a new semantic metadata library.

webMethods Introduces the Next Generation of Business Process Management Suites with Fabric 7.0 Release