Business process management or BPM is an organized method of making the workflow of a certain organization more efficient and more adept at adjusting to an environment that is always changing.
The aim of Business Process Management is to lessen miscommunication and human mistakes and divert the attention of stakeholders on the necessities of their roles. BPM is a subsection of infrastructure management which is an administrative field focused on preserving and improving the equipment and central operations of an organization.
Oftentimes, BPM is a connection point inside a company between the IT department and line-of-business or LOB. The Business Process Management Notation or BPMN and Business Process Execution Language or BPEL were made to enable communication between LOB and IT. The two languages are very easy to learn and read, so people in the business world could speedily learn how to use them in design processes. The BPMN and BPEL both follow the canons in programming, so procedures designed in IT or LOB are less complicated for developers to interpret into hard code.
Today, there are three various types of Business Process Management frameworks offered in the market. Horizontal BPM frameworks concentrate on the development and design of development of business procedures and are normally dealing with reuse and technology. Vertical BPM frameworks concentrate on a definite set of harmonized works and have built templates that could be configured and installed easily. Full-service BPM templates on the other hand have the following five basic parts:
1. Workflow Engine 2. Business Rules Engine 3. Project Scoping and Project Discovery 4. Process Modeling and Design 5. Testing and Simulation
Businesses today run in a different environment when compared to those in the 80s and 90s. Oftentimes, legacy systems are function, product, and data- centric. Business establishments these days want constant change. With the ever-changing cycles today, suppliers and clients and customers expect to interrelate through many different channels. Also, there is currently a rising demand for straight-through processing and self-service.
In this new era, wiser systems are a must in order to cope up with quick changes in many business processes spanning many legacy systems. Such systems likewise need to be capable of receiving input from an array of new sources such as data-feeds, Web services, call centers, forms, internet, and other applications. And in order to attain such dexterity, businesses and other establishments are starting to apply the tools and approaches associated with Business Process Management.