Understand business process management concepts

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Understand business process management concepts

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Source       Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. This tutorial series covers information about the business process management industry and tool usage. We'll review general business process management concepts and modeling methodologies. In addition, you'll learn how IBM WebSphere Business Modeler relates to the SOA life cycle. Finally, you'll explore critical success factors for business process modeling.	Every business is unique and requires custom management policies. Defining the business objectives, and how to execute them, is critical. Another important aspect of business management is managing change, because a company's policies evolve over time. Effective business process management is a disciplined practice that includes the following: Modeling processes Enabling workflow Defining business measures Monitoring performance results Ideally, you want to automate the management process as much as possible. It's also desirable to generalize the language so the process can be modified without affecting the underlying IT implementation. Business process management is the logical marriage between workflow and application integration. It abstracts the process flow from the application or IT implementation level to processes within the business context.   The WebSphere Business Process Management Suite can help you with all aspects of the process definition life cycle to model, integrate, connect, monitor, and manage business processes in an enterprise environment. For more information on the WebSphere Business Process Management product family, refer to the IBM WebSphere Business Process Management Information Center and the developerWorks WebSphere Business Process Management zone.
What is a business process?	If you search the Web for a definition of business process, you find many definitions. All these definitions contain certain common elements:    A business process is triggered by a business event.  A business process has an input and creates an output that is of value to the organization, its stake holders, or its customers.  A business process is composed of related structural activities. Material and/or information flows between the process activities.  A business process can be part of a larger process and can include or depend on other business processes.   A business process can be viewed as the workflow for a use case.  A business process usually depends upon several business functions for support, for example, IT, personnel, and accommodation.
What is business process management?	Business process management (BPM) leads to business innovation and optimization by implementing business strategy through modeling, developing, deploying, and managing business processes throughout their entire life cycle. BPM acts as an enabler for the businesses in defining and implementing strategic business goals and then measuring and managing company's financial and operational performance against these goals. The power of optimal results from the BPM life cycle activities is derived from the integrated set of the robust technology infrastructure and tools. Business process management provides a convergence of technology that removes business and IT constraints through integration and enhanced technology to help streamline business transformation. These capabilities provide tight integration of operational and analytical environments, business and IT environments, and strategy with daily operations. Business process management combines business processes, information, and IT resources, aligning your organization's core assets-people, information, technology, and processes-to create a single integrated view, with real-time intelligence, of both its business measurements and IT system performance. This integration of resources allows your organization to obtain business information faster, respond more quickly to market trends and competitive threats, and improve operational efficiencies and business results-all attributes of an on demand enterprise.
Benefits of BPM	BPM allows for an enterprise to be flexible and responsive to the ever changing on-demand business through the optimization and automation of the business processes to:   Identify and eliminate redundancies and bottlenecks Reduce risk by gaining an understanding of process impacts prior to operationalizing Decouple business integration logic from its underlying implementation code Increase portability and decrease maintenance cost by being based on industry standards Automate process implementation, eliminate manual deployment tasks Immediately execute new business rules and processes Visualize actual process performance against key performance indicators Pinpoint future process improvements   The robust business process management solution will provide powerful tools for the business and IT side of the business to meet their challenges:   The business executive needs: Revenue growth with cost containment Responsiveness to business conditions and ability to pursue new market opportunities Improving internal skills, capabilities and leadership as the first step toward growth The challenges for the IT executive are: Aligning IT and business goals to grow revenue and contain costs Building responsiveness and agility into the organization through IT Enabling people and teams to be more effective through IT