Success and continuing success of any company depends on how much agile and streamlined its business processes are. Agile & streamlined business processes enables company to be more adoptable to sudden change and more efficient in terms of using resources like People, IT , data.
If Business Processes are not well defined then company is more likely going to spend more money into employee training or into in-efficient systems to overcome process flaws.
BPM provides fast and efficient tools/methodologies to analyze current business processes and identifies deficiencies in them. Deficiencies like of process gaps, repeated processes, process bottle necks can be found out. BPM also provides design tools to design business processes and provides simulation tools/test beds to verify whether designed processes meet current / futuristic business requirements or not. This proactive approach saves lot of time/effort and costs of actual process development. Actual Process and IT system implementation can be started only after satisfying results are achieved using BPM simulation tools.
Because of “Simulate/Verify” approach, all processes and System designed using BPM methodologies not only ensures they are efficient but agile to adopt sudden changes in business strategies.
Business Activity Monitoring – Monitor Process Performance
BPM provides tools to monitor performance of business processes and provides framework (Business Activity Monitoring) to capture data about processes itself. This data with the help of Business Intelligence (BI) tools can be used to provide end-end visibility of business processes.
Under the BPM Consulting arena, we also provide following services
• Application definition and architecture
• Prototyping: pre-study and pilot projects
• Process and methodology improvement and definition
• Requirements, information and knowledge management
• Software testing
• Project management
• Target integration
• Application development
• Tool environment integration
• Project analysis
• Implementation planning
• Lifecycle model customization
• Code migration
• On-site support and training
BPM/ SOA:
Today world has become flat market place. Few years ago enterprises never thought they would actually compete with someone across the globe, but internet technology made it happen rather sooner than expected. On one side it is an opportunity to expand business but the other side it is a challenge to meet expectations, compete the cost, maintain high standards & quality in service.
To meet these over growing expectations and improve productivity sometimes complete makeover of business strategies & processes, Tools & systems is required. Sometimes need of realignment of business processes with revised business strategy by mere reusing/modifying existing tools & systems can achieve same results instead of total business processes makeover.
Due to global market, senior executive leaders have been challenged to not only have competitive business strategy but should have business processes flexible enough to adopt any changes in strategy quickly and effectively, efficiently.
Any changes in business processes have cost associated to it since it affects key contributors like employees & tools, Systems. More time / cost to adopt the change in strategy lead to less productivity due to inefficient employee, system, tools. Less productivity means less profit, less production or even less sales.
A complete makeover of business processes is very costly, time ineffective.
So company leaders are looking for relatively chap & simple & time effective solution to remain competitive in this ever changing global market.
Solutions articulated using cutting edge Business process management combined with Services oriented architecture addresses this problem. Business process management (BPM) solution enable analysis of business processes with respect to revised strategy. After analysis is complete by using modeling tool processes can be remodeled and tested against test scenarios until desired results are achieved in test bed. This is proven & very cost/time effective technique since actual processes are not being modified until the changes in business processes are tested & verified & approved.
Once all business processes are remodeled in test bed detail implementation plan including employees, tools, systems’ development and training can be executed.
One of the key focuses of BPM is to determine process redundancy and possible reuse of already existing efficient processes. Study shows 60% of loss in productivity of companies is either due process redundancy or due inability to reuse existing efficient business processes due to lack of accessibility or lack of knowledge of its existence.
Once such business processes are identified then using Service oriented architecture (SOA) these processes are exposed as independent services. These services can be called by other services or can call other services. With help of SOA BPM reduces process redundancy and improves process reusability. Combined solution increase the efficiency of business processes and hence productivity and profitability of the company.
Current industry challenges & here are the key benefits of BPM SOA solutions.
• Due to globalization & economic turn around to remain comptetevative sudden/continues changes,
realignments in business strategy hence business processes, systems, tools is inevitable.
• Almost 80% of total companies annually goes through 50 to 60% of processes changes due to
change in business strategy either due to global competition or improve the productivity to meet
sales deadlines.
• Almost 60% loss in company productivity is due to business processes are too rigid to cope up with
changes in business strategy or lack ability to reuse existing processes.
• Any changes to realign Business processes & system, tools takes time and more time it takes more
costly it is and less productive to the enterprise.
• BPM/SOA solution is a proven roadmap to align business strategy to business processes, Systems
by virtue of eliminating process redundancy, bottle necks and wiring reusable business processes.
Since it is proven road map, solution can be implemented quickly, efficiently & accurately. Solution is
first tested and verified using simulation tools success rate is very high almost.
• BPM/SOA is not just another IT solution but it is true convergence of business solution using IT
tools.
• BPM / SOA solution is very cost effective and proven solution which can be applied to specific area
of concern (Sales, Accounting department) or business process (Inventory management) in the
company.
• Companies who have implemented BPM/SOA successfully have gained overall profitability by 30 to
40% and their response time to cope up with change in strategy has drop to few months from year
or more.
As you can see BPM/SOA solution is proven and very efficient but it requires domain experts in business, functional, Software, systems areas. It is very difficult for an implementing company to get all these expertise and work in synergic manner.
“TechMind/ OSL “provides an end to end to BPM/SOA solution, BPM360. TechMind/ OSL consultants can drive the complete BPM/SOA solution right from understanding need of change in business strategy to implementing & meshing reusable business processes (Called services). TechMind/ OSL has proven track record of implementing BPM/Solutions in the past.
Benefits of TechMind/ OSL BPM360 package:
• One stop shop, we can implement end to end complete BPM/SOA solution in cost and time effective
manner.
• Proven availability of domain, functional and engineering - IT systems expertise under one
umbrella.
• Able to implement solution in on shore and/or off shore model due to professional global presence.
• We also provide extends BPM/SOA solutions by implementing BI (Business intelligence) and
providing 24*7 on shore off shore support.
• So if you are seeking for guaranteed ROI due to improved processes efficiency & productivity, we
have the solution BPM360.
Can any company take a benefit from BPM360 package?Answer is yes! Any company big, small, mid size can take an advantage of BPM360 package.
Company which is just starting a new business or about to start a new business or company which is looking for cost cutting, improving productivity or due merger trying to manage/integrate complex composite business processes , systems, methodologies can take an advantage of BPM360 package to implement BPM/SOA/BI solution.
Following diagram shows conceptual relationship between BPM/SOA/BI and various actors in any process of a typical company
