Friday, October 17, 2014

ASM, SOA & BPM as the basis for the automation and integration of business processes and crucial steps in the proceedit’s value offering



In the proceedit value chain (Optimization > Automation > µOutsourcing), the second step, Automation, is the crucial one.

 


BPM & BPMS are the basic methodology and technology applied to automate business processes. A BPM Process can be understood as a movie that organizes the coordinated work of different actors: humans, applications and devices with a common aim (see the figure below).


The SOA layer facilitates the integration of business processes with the different corporate applications and content providers, not only in order to use the documents and data registered in the BPM Process, but also to allow saving documents and data created or modified along the process, and registering transactions on these applications (e.g. taking a picture) at a certain moment when the process has all the information and approvals required to do it.

Most of the business processes in organizations require heavy interaction with their legacy corporate systems. Often, these systems are still supported by Cobol applications running on old mainframe technology difficult to interact with. In these scenarios, migration to modern Java based applications running on powerful and stable x86/Linux systems is recommend. proceedit has the methodology & technology needed to perform this migration onto a 100 % automated, 100 % iso-functional and very progressive risk-free (no Big-bang) way. 

Automation is the only way to secure the potential savings obtained during the OPEX phase by fixing the working procedures and, therefore, avoiding future deviations on users’ behavior and making the operative excellence gained during the process optimization step sustainable. 

What is more, Automation is the only effective way to allow the third step of the proceedit value chain to be applied: the micro-Outsourcing of certain tasks of the process in certain circumstances defined by business rules applied on the fly.

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