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1. Web-Enablement Cheat Sheet (Informatica/Bytesize 2007) ... tool from a business application vendor. To fully leverage the power of the Web, SMEs will have to embrace end-to-end business process management (BPM) capabilities on a service-oriented architecture platform ... 2. MESSRS. DELIVERY (Informatica/ICT in Financial Services 2007) African Legend Indigo, a razor-sharp contender in the local SOA-BPM-EAI space, has already emulated the global telecoms strength of its principal, BEA. The company’s high-performing BEA business unit ... 3. EXECUTIVE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS : DELIVERING ON ITS PROMISES (Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007) ... from strategy management and organisational performance all the way down to people management, as well as business process management (BPM), since it is ultimately the processes that drive performance. ... 4. What can BPM do? There’s a big gap between the theory and practice, particularly when it comes to management disciplines. 5. BPM… More than just managing transactions 6. Building in efficiency A business refocus and need to manage SLAs led local financial services company Glacier to implement a BPM solution. ... 7. BPM: Opportunity knocks? BPM has excellent potential to add value to business. It just needs to be explained properly. ... 8. JOINING THE DOTS ... applicable to all business units within a department. Business Process Management (BPM) tools are often utilised to address a need to automate workflow, facilitating the key success driver of integration ... 9. Let`s automate the lot RMB Private Bank has implemented a Tibco BPM suite to improve the turnaround time of its client acquisition processes. ... 10. By any other Could BPM and workflow be synonymous or something else entirely? And, of course, there`s the people factor to consider. ... 11. Architecting the future enterprise ... business architecture much focus and BPM and SOA are at least getting us to design our businesses a lot better. What are the design principles we have to put in for the business of the future? Rudi Leibbrandt, ... 12. Who`s next on the BI acquisition trail? The BI and BPM sectors of the IT industry have seen significant consolidations over the past few months. And there is more to come. ... 13. Making technology work Fastnet`s workflow system is improving its efficiency, transparency and customer service. 14. Implement BPM sooner, not later Gartner has predicted enterprises that aggressively begin their organisational and cultural transformation for BPM in 2007 will double their chances of becoming industry leaders by 2010. ... 15. Gluing the business to IT Fans of BPM claim it is the answer to two long-standing IT issues: breaking down business silos and uniting IT and business. Is there any truth to this? ... 16. BPM / workflow timeline 1911: Frederick Taylor focuses on manufacturing tasks and time/motion studies, which are measured statistically. 17. BPM – how them times they are a-changin` One year after the Brainstorm BPM survey concluded that the South African market is in a stage of maturity, we speak to key players about the challenges remaining. ... 18. From improved efficiency to rocket science Many companies have used enterprise resource planning to streamline work processes, but could business process management (BPM) be the way to root out ineffectiveness in the workplace? Organisational ... 19. It`s the process, stupid! The concepts now subsumed under the term “business process management” (BPM) aren`t new. Basic workflow products have been around since the mid-nineties, the great ERP wave has passed, and business process ...