process improvement

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

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How BPM Can Increase Your Overall SharePoint Maturity Over 43% of organizations deploying SharePoint are looking to purchase workflow or business process management (BPM) add-on applications for the platform, according to the 2011 “How Are Businesses Using SharePoint” survey. Like many businesses deploying SharePoint, usage within the organization expands dramatically as users find it a useful […]

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Exposing the value of BPM

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Inefficient processes can make or break your organizations ability to succeed. Each year organizations dish out hundreds, even millions, of dollars leveraging the wrong resources to try and improve ineffective business processes. Companies that are unable to adapt to new industry regulations, changing business models and competitor innovation are facing the reality of failure. The […]

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Could Anyone Else Use an Extra $600,000?

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I am supplementing my Q&A series on the Value of EA & BPA with a wonderful article published on January 30th about one our customers, Chubb Insurance, written by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council. There is nothing like a great story to  illustrate some of the ways enterprise architecture initiatives are […]

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Q&A Series: The Evolution of EA

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Next up in my Q&A series on EA, I am going to address how the EA market is changing and what vendors are doing to support user’s new expectations. Question: What are some of the ways that EA is evolving and what changes are EA tool vendors implementing to support those changes? Answer: In my […]

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Q&A Series: The Future of EA and BPA

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Today I’m continuing my Q&A series on frequent questions asked about enterprise architecture and business process analysis tools. Over the past few months there has been a lot of chatter around the future of EA and BPA. Here’s another installment on the future of this market and the best way to leverage these tools to […]

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Q&A Series: The Value of EA and BPA

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In November and December, Gartner released the Magic Quadrants for Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Process Analysis (BPA) respectively.  We thought we’d discuss some of Gartner’s observations about trends in both EA and BPA along with many questions we’ve heard from our customers and prospects over the years.  We are thrilled about our leadership positions […]

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Impacting Business with Enterprise Architecture: What the Future Holds for EA Efforts

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Cliché as it may be, I can’t stop myself from turning the page on the calendar of a new year and turning my mind to my personal goals for the year. Naturally, many organizations have a tendency to follow suit.  Bolstered by this spirit of the possible,  organizations begin to envision themselves achieving their goals […]

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    Part 3     Enterprise Architecture (EA) projects are often thought to be initiated…

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Human vs. Machine: How Adaptive Case Management Helps Insurance Firms Serve Customers

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Have you seen the movie Real Steel? In the storyline of this flick, automation has replaced human fighters with 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robot boxers. The moral is “humans out, automation in” — end of story, right? Not exactly. As it turns out, it’s the right combination of human and machine that proves necessary for the […]

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Upping the Ante: Combining ECM and BPM to Drive Better Business Outcomes

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We’re excited to announce that our customers can now leverage the capabilities of the OpenText enterprise content management (ECM) and dynamic case management (DCM) together to achieve better business outcomes by bridging the gap between content and process. Bringing Together Content and Process According to Forrester Research, dynamic case management is a highly structured but […]

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Think Big: Extending BPM Across Your Organization

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In my blog post last month I covered a few of the lessons learned by early BPM adopters on how to begin a business process management (BPM) initiative. Based on many early BPM successes, we have seen the focus of BPM projects shift from just streamlining and improving a few key processes within their organization […]

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Mobile Five Ways

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Gartner predicts that by 2013, mobile devices will outpace the laptop as the most popular way to access the internet. As a mobile user, I want to access and interact with processes in my business just as easily as I access other businesses, such as Amazon, Chipotle, or Schwab, from my iPhone (or tablet, if […]

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Well on our way to 2019

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I just viewed a new video from Microsoft about their future vision of our lives in 2019. Which is a great video offering a glimpse of things to come. Although, I was thinking that we probably won’t have to wait until 2019 to see these new technologies come to life. I had my process and case […]

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