Business Process Automation
Generating short-term benefits and flexibility through the application of BPMS technology
Companies are looking for effective approaches and easy-to-use tools to cope with the actual market challenges.
Executives are under constant pressure to seek enhanced performance throughout the organization (do more with less, more quickly). They need to differentiate the firm’s offerings from those of the competition, to make the firm more agile and easy to do business with, and yet ensure compliance and reduce operational risk.
The crucial question is how to develop and implement business processes in such a way they maximally meet the requirement for flexibility, rapid changes, measurability and risk control. And how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage.
Business process Automation (BPA) provides a strong answer to these needs. Through the application of advanced software tools (BPM Suites) and a powerful delivery approach (the BPA methodology) BPA supports companies in increasing their productivity, agility and end-to-end visibility.
BPM Suites are a new-generation of software tools that enable rapid development of process-oriented applications. During the last few years BPMS technology has become mature. BPM Suites start from business process design. They pick up the process flows and complete them with all required parameters to generate an automated workflow, a user interface, document management support, reports and dashboards and a user-centric portal. BPM Suites are intuitive tools, which can be applied by business users with IT feeling or by IT people with affinity for business.
Concretely, BPA helps companies to:
• Better align Business and IT.
• Effectively manage tasks, by which employee time is better used and quality increases.
• Analyse process analytics and monitor activities in real-time. This way the process and the organization can be adjusted continuously.
• Make processes enforceable, and their execution flexible and controllable.
• Automate processes rapidly and efficiently, from business as well as from IT-side.
• Limit IT investments and risks.