A joint Approach to Creating Business Value

Organizations in all sectors have a renewed focus on their business processes with the goals of improved efficiency and service levels, and reduced costs. Business Process Management (BPM) has therefore come under the spotlight as a key enabling technology, and also acts as the business interface into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

So many new waves in technology seem to require the wholesale replacement of the old with the new, yet BPM has the potential to complement many existing technologies. Butler Group believes that discovering processes that already exist, and then re-using as much as possible whilst improving the overall process, should be a stronger consideration. Modeling processes from a blank sheet of paper may well be productive, but can easily overlook very good reasons why processes already run in a particular way. Expecting one single application to fulfill all of an organization’s requirements is overly optimistic; yet linking services together to suit a specific business process is still a major challenge for most organizations.

Process Improvement and Process Optimization will be key themes at this year’s BPM&SOA Symposium. As organizations become more and more familiar with BPM and deployments become more widespread, the focus will move on from simply automating processes to doing them better. We therefore anticipate that tools to support the understanding of process efficiency will be discussed during this Symposium.

BPM and SOA are highly complementary technologies, and there is no doubt that the underlying technical infrastructure needed to enable sophisticated process management is likely to need modernization in many cases. SOA has been the subject of much hyperbole and discussion, but a number of pilot projects are showing some success. At present, SOA has been under consideration in larger organizations, but as technologies progress – and as packaged applications metamorphose – we see this paradigm becoming widespread. What organizations need is a better understanding how SOA and packaged applications fit together with BPM.

This two day event will give many insights. You will hear analysts, industry experts and case studies. Both days will close with panel debates, however, in November 14th the debate will be followed by a gala dinner, where you can network, discuss in more detail all the issues and relax with peers after a day filled with new insights and information.

If you would like to make an appointment during this symposium with Jonathan Best, Managing Director Cordys UK, or with Jon Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer Cordys, please send an e-mail to Monique van Galen Last (mvglast@cordys.com) and we will contact you.

For more information about this event please visit the Butler Group Website.

 

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