Intelligent Business Process Management System (iBPMS)

Written by Ken Kramer. Posted in BPM and Workflow, Terminology

Intelligent Business Process Management System (iBPMS)  is a term that defines the latest generation of enterprise Business Process Management (BPM), leveraging newer technological advances to attain optimal operational responsiveness and efficiency just not possible with yesterday’s business process or workflow software platform.

Today, companies of all types and sizes want faster and better insight into their operations and overall process. This growing demand for operational intelligence and information has given rise to a new, “intelligent” variety of business process management suites (BPMSs).

An intelligent BPM suite provides the framework, features and functionality required to support more intelligent business operations, including real-time analytics, extensive complex event processing (CEP) and business activity monitoring (BAM) technologies and enhanced mobile, social and collaborative capabilities.

Dubbed ‘iBPMS” by Gartner, who describes the intelligent BPM Suite as having 10 core components:

• A process orchestration engine
• A model-driven composition environment
• Content interaction management
• Human interaction management
• Connectivity
• Active analytics (sometimes called continuous intelligence)
• On-demand analytics
• Business rules management (BRM)
• Management and administration for the suite’s technical aspects
• A process component registry/repository

An example of an iBPMS is K2 blackpearl.

 
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The Gears of Process: Making Sense of the Business Process Acronyms

Written by Ken Kramer. Posted in Blog

Definitions for BPMP, BPMS and iBPMS

There is quite a bit of confusion within the Business Process Management (BPM) world, and much of it revolves around acronyms, and actually what defines a platform, a suite and intelligence.  As companies look to bring workflow and process technology into their business operations, it can help to actually understand how the market is defined, and where to look for the right set of features and functions that will provide the required outcomes.

So, to start off in simple terms, there is a hierarchy of capabilities and features, that goes from basic to advanced.  It starts at the ground level with the basic Business Process Management Platform, and climbs to the Suite, and then the Intelligent Suite.  Below are some basic definitions and attributes:

What is a Business Process Management Platform?

The basic BPM platform is a set of tools (workflow, forms, data, reporting) that allows an organization to create digital process, and transform their businesses and compose process-centric applications.  It provides a graphical design environment, and allows you to build out your processes.  It includes storage for process metadata, and also an engine for executing process and managing business rules.  An example of this type of application would be iWorkflow.

What is a Business Process Management Suite (BPMS)?

The BPMS lays a foundation for business and IT to collaborate throughout the design and execution of process.  It houses all the features and benefits of the Platform, but the Suite adds a full compliment of  tools and features to improve process and increase business agility.   The Suite focuses on transformation and innovation, and typically adds no/low code application composition, as well as the ability to handle routine and non-routine work (case management).  It provides robust reporting on process to create a feedback loop for continuous improvement.  K2 fulfills this niche, as well as the next level.  See K2 Workflow and BPM.

What is an Intelligent Business Process Management Suite (iBPMS)?

The iBPMS is at the apex application of the process world.  Take all the benefits of the previously mentioned categories, and add enhanced and predictive analytics, process intelligence and enhanced process insight.  The main purpose of the Intelligent Suite is to drive rapid improvement and process enhancement to achieve top levels of efficiency and productivity.  The iBPMS also provides dynamic functionality to change process “on the fly”, for non-routine work.  K2 meets all these needs: See K2 Workflow and BPM.

 

Inform Decisions carries both products, and can help any type of organization carve out their process needs.  See our software here: Workflow Software.

 

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