IBM Business Process Manager

IBM Business Process Manager—a single solution to make your BPM journey easier

Starting the BPM journey can seem like a daunting task, from both the executive buy-in and implementation perspectives, and IBM Business Process Manager can make that journey substantially easier. IBM Business Process Manager is a comprehensive and consumable BPM platform that provides total visibility and management of your business processes. It includes tooling and run-time for process design, execution, monitoring and optimization, and is specifically designed to make it easy for process owners and business users to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes. Its highly integrated functionality and fluid designs provide new levels of interoperability with other IBM offerings, and it scales smoothly and easily from initial project to enterprise-wide program.

Features – IBM Business Process Manager

• Simplified graphical design tools—Makes it easier for every team member, including nontechnical users, to collaborate on process design and analysis
• Increase efficiency—Rapid development environment makes it easier for service and integration developers to build reusable service oriented architecture services, orchestrate services and access back-end
• Increase collaboration—Integrated design-time experience makes it easier for a multirole team to define and govern everything needed for a process application, marrying business-driven process design
• Visibility into process performance—Patented, integrated performance data warehouse automatically correlates performance event streams directly back to the specified metrics of the process model driving Execution.

Some more feature of IBM Business Process Manager are:-

• Empower knowledge workers with real-time analytics to optimize business processes.
• Enhance time to value through business-user-focused design capabilities, including process coaching to guide users easily through the steps of a process.
• Confidently manage change with a unified model-driven environment that provides everybody with visibility of the same process version.
• Combines simplicity, ease of use and task-management capabilities from IBM®WebSphere® Lombardi Edition (WLE) with key capabilities from Web Sphere Process Server (WPS) to support enterprise integration and transaction-process management requirements as part of an overall service oriented architecture (SOA).

Achieve real business value

With IBM Business Process Manager, you can expect to achieve real business value, such as reduced time, effort and risk; working smarter; and becoming more competitive.  

The following table provides actual examples of benefits realized by organizations using the new IBM BPM solution.:-

Efficiency 

• Eliminated manual data entry, resulting in 98 percent reduction in time required to add new employee data into human resource (HR) systems from nine hours to 10 minutes
• Reduced process cycle time for processing compensation of 12,000 sales representatives by 77 percent—from 30 days to seven days
•  Reduced manual work by eliminating 80 percent of work required to handle invoice exceptions by the appropriate resolution teams

Effectiveness

• Handled exceptions promptly, increasing the rescue rate of distressed shipments from five percent to 70 percent and yielding USD2,000,000 in saved revenues

Decision making

• Improved decision making by reducing invalid and incorrect billing disputes by 10 percent, saving millions of dollars of credits that would otherwise have been written off and achieving project payback in six months.

Agility

• Achieved faster regulatory compliance, by changing customs-related processes after 11 September 2001 to comply with federal regulations within 90 days.
• Supported new business models, by enabling manufacturer to add, monitor and change shipping partners, as needed, in less than 10 minutes.

Customer Satisfaction

• Improved client satisfaction to 92 percent, based on proactive tasks to ensure loans are consistently processed correctly the first time.

Why IBM for BPM

• Only IBM has the winning combination of market-leading products, industry accelerators and best practices, and the expertise and service professionals to ensure success with a BPM project.
• IBM services can take full advantage of best practices and prescriptive approaches to realize fast value, foster BPM adoption and create transformational impact.
•  IBM Business Process Manager especially excels is in integrating role-based design time experience, while enabling asset sharing and versioning, by way of its unified repository—allowing you to manage changes to your business with confidence.
• Come talk to us about the “Quick Win Pilot” services approach that can help you achieve success in your first project and quickly realize business value. Use a proven, affordable approach to build confidence and jump-start the enablement of your team. Organizations like yours are seeking ways to drive measured growth, while meeting rising customer expectations. At the same time, IT departments require the ability to deliver greater flexibility to the business, while managing costs. These needs are converging and pushing organizations toward a process inflection point that is driving a need for a single BPM platform—and IBM Business Process Manager is the solution you can trust.