Colosa Launches Business Process Library

This post on BPM Architect highlights Colosa’s latest launch of a new library of business process templates called ProcessMaker Library. Colosa is a leader of open source business process software, and now it will be able to simplify business process for managers to increase the efficiency and structure of their business.

New templates will be added every month so the library will have a range of business process templates. Patricia Cabero, ProcessMaker Community Lead, mentions:

"ProcessMaker Library responds to a community desire to share workflow designs. This innovative resource will offer increased utility to ProcessMaker users and grow the community network in new and interesting ways. The Library is in Beta version, and new templates and features are coming soon."

The free software can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker

How do you Define Business Process Management?

Enterprise architects, business solution providers, and project managers all define BPM in different terms. Arjun Thomas has used wikipedia’s definition of business process management in his post today, which reads:

“Business process management (BPM) is a method of efficiently aligning an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology. As organizations strive for attainment of their objectives, BPM attempts to continuously improve processes - the process to define, measure and improve your processes – a ‘process optimization’ process.”

Do you agree with this definition?

IBM identifies spot in BPM World

According to this article at ITWeb, IBM has established its place in the BPM space.

The article states:
IBM introduced Business Space, a role-based desktop environment for monitoring business processes, combined with application content and collaborative tools.

Find out more here.

Is It a Business Process Management Product, Feature or Function?

Dennis Byron asks an interesting question in his latest post on BPM in Action, Is It a Business Process Management Product, Feature or Function? Dennis explains that there are many variables that and scenarios for each case that can define enterprise software as products, features, or functionality. He also goes on to discuss how BPM is not service oriented architecture, do you agree with him? Make sure to read his full article.

Better BPM for banks

With the current instability and unpredictable of the financial markets, Savvion has developed a program to improve business processes within in banks, including services such as loan processing, underwriting and servicing. The program can implement regulations and requirements within a companies documents quickly, allowing them to keep up with the ever changing market. Read more here.

The values of business process outsourcing

CIO Today recently examined the value that can be added from outsourcing your business processes. High quality can come from outside the organization, which also could lead to customer retention. Read about it here.

What Businesses Can Learn from Processes of U.S. Elections

I came across this very intriguing post by Dennis Byron at BPM in Action earlier today. Today is Election Day, and he explains that many businesses today are just like ballot initiatives. There is much human intervention with double and triple checking at times, and technology is a very small part of the work flow itself.

Human interaction at election locations start at the beginning with ID checking, calling out your name in public, signing the book, and then finally voting. The main idea here as with processes in businesses as well, is that problems occur in the human workflow process and not the technologies. Do you agree?

Seven forms of BPM

I recently found an article by Tom Baeyens that looks at seven forms of business process management. BPM is such a broad term that you need to find a BPM engine that works for your project, and Baeyens sets out seven different types.

Case 1: BPM as a discipline
Case 2: Combining template based and ad hoc task management
Case 3: Transactional asynchronous architectures
Case 4: Service orchestration
Case 5: Visual programming
Case 6: Thread Control Language
Case 7: Easy creation DSLs

Find out more about each individual case here.