Business Process Management (BPM)

Uncovering Process Excellence

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Achieving process excellence is possible. To do it you can start by bringing together the top performers within your organization to capture what it is that makes them good at what they do. This isn’t always easy because many top performers can’t always easily articulate the underlying reason for their success. We see these top […]

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Things happen. Are you prepared?

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Unexpected events happen. Things don’t go as planned. Accidents, faulty equipment, property damage, safety violations, public safety threats, and personnel incidents are just a handful of events that can cause organizations to quickly react. It’s how you handle these unexpected incidents that can determine their severity and your exposure. Incidents – big or small – […]

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  1. The Dynamic Side of BPM One goal of business process management (BPM) is to automate…
  2. Call for entries–Metastorm Enterprise Process Advantage® Awards 2010 We are very excited to announce that Metastorm is now…
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Power of EA + BPM: Thoughts from Gartner EA Summit

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The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in London came to a close yesterday.  After two days of insightful keynotes, analyst presentations, workshops and networking, it was clear that business processes and EA are inherently and necessarily linked to one another.  In a recent Gartner survey, improving and aligning business processes was cited as an EA priority […]

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  1. Thoughts from Gartner BPM Summit Gartner Business Process Management Summit is in full swing and…
  2. Must See Guide for Gartner BPM Summit As one of the largest BPM conferences in the world,…
  3. Metastorm ProVision positioned as a Leader in new Gartner Magic Quadrant for BPA tools Today Metastorm announced that it has been positioned in the…

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Oil & Gas Companies Under Pressure

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Oil companies [are] essentially spending twice as much to undertake the same amount of work as in 2000¹. It’s evident that oil and gas companies are under an incredible amount of pressure. Pressure to meet increasing demands for energy, pressure to provide consistency in operations amid (or in spite of) price fluctuations, pressure to find […]

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  3. City of Richmond Receives Multiple Awards for Business Process Improvement Initiatives Metastorm is very proud to announce that the City of…

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Thoughts from Gartner BPM Summit

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Gartner Business Process Management Summit is in full swing and after a jam-packed day of keynotes, sessions, roundtables and one-on-one conversations with BPM users, vendors and industry experts, we are seeing three major themes driving  BPM interest and adoption today – Visibility, Change and Results. Collaboration between business and IT Bringing together business and IT […]

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Must See Guide for Gartner BPM Summit

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As one of the largest BPM conferences in the world, the Gartner BPM Summit offers objective advice and insights into some of the latest issues, disciplines and trends emerging in the BPM community.  With the Gartner BPM Summit coming up next week in Baltimore, we thought we’d take this opportunity to pull together a quick […]

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Six Strategies for a Successful Center of Excellence

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Few organizations, less than 20% according to a recent study by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, are able to execute successfully on their business strategy1. Implementing the right business improvements is nearly impossible when you have no clear understanding of how your business’ strategy, processes, people and content are interconnected.  Many of today’s successful organizations […]

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Is Your Industry in a State of Flux?

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A week or so ago Metastorm presented a webinar on how to manage change in different industries.  The webinar explained how industry-specific capability models can accelerate the value of an organization’s transformation efforts. So what industries are most in need of a formal business transformation framework and platform?  When polled, respondents clearly emerged as having an immediate need […]

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The Dynamic Side of BPM

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One goal of business process management (BPM) is to automate and streamline human-centric business processes with the intent of benefiting from lower costs, increased productivity, greater control and better response times.  However, not all processes are easily automated and governed.  Many organizational processes are often unstructured in their nature and simply cannot be mapped out […]

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3 Reasons Organizations Need Capability Maps

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Organizations are made up of thousands of capabilities, each individually responsible for what the organization must do to successfully perform any type of business activity.  With thousands of capabilities supporting multiple business units, it becomes difficult to see and understand how the people – and the technology that supports them – work together to perform […]

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The Top 5 Capabilities You Want From BPM Suites

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What do you want to achieve by using business process management (BPM) software?  Address compliance and risk management issues?  Improve your customer service?  Integrate data across existing applications? To achieve these goals, some organizations look to leverage a robust BPM suite, while others are simply trying to improve their processes using BPM.  Regardless of intentions […]

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Insights from OpenText: What Metastorm Brings to the Company

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OpenText announced Friday the completion of the Metastorm acquisition. We do many acquisitions at OpenText but this particular acquisition is very interesting for a multitude of reasons. Metastorm is the leader in business process management (BPM) which is a discipline quite related to enterprise content management (ECM). In fact, enterprise content management has long included […]

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