Components of a BPM Solution

[Kaiden]

There always seems to be a debate to the components needed to implement BPM. For a some of the people new to BPM and just starting their first projects -- what are the core capabiliities? I see modeler, execution, and dashboards. Agree?

[ms1mm0]

Hello "Kaiden"

BPM can be wide reaching, integrating every asset and resource into your processes from dashboards, modelling tools, to portal, B2B gateways, content management, database ... but taking a practical approach to your question I suggest these modules as the basis for a BPM solution :

First consider these two aspects of BPM
(1) Software capabilities
(2) Knowledge and expertise

(1) Software capabilities
* Business modelling tools to capture, simuilate, and model the processes
* A process engine to execute the processes deployed with transactiona integrity
* Business monitoring tools to create the visibility of what is actually happening to feed back into the process model for optimization - and IT level monitoring tools ( how many processes running, process execution times, threshold breaches, etc) to support service level monitoring
*Bear in mind that business rules, state machines, a registry and repository (for dynamic discovery, look-up, decision making and Governance), forms generation, business user interfaces are all components of the BPMS.

(2) Knowledge and expertise
* Process Knowledge (expert knowledge of how your current and future processes will work)
* Industry Methods and Models (predefined data and process models)
* Business consulting expertise (best practices on how to implement BPM solutions)


I hope this helps answer your question.

regards

Mark S