You’ve heard it before—employees must do more with less, productivity is critical to results, multitasking now pays dividends later. But in reality, it’s difficult to juggle existing tasks much less a modern workload without the use of eight arms or a time machine.
Luckily, your organization’s bottom line does not have to suffer. Business Process Management (BPM) is an incredibly effective way to help improve business results. Putting systems in place to streamline and optimize business operations is always a good idea. When you manage and control those business processes, you reduce costs while gaining opportunities (more customers, more revenue, more partners, etc.).
So what’s new? Businesses are going digital. This means processes need to do more, use more and change more. Now, business processes need to adapt to manage routine and non-routine work. Simply put, they need a better way to work – better innovation, better insight and better productivity. But this can overwhelm IT so everyday workers need to transform into a so-called Citizen Developers.
How much productivity? Citizen Developers may be the key for business looking to speed the time to market. Gartner’s “Citizen Development is Fundamental to the Digital Workplace” August 2015 report found nearly two-thirds of those surveyed took less than two weeks to develop an app; most of those surveyed had little or no developer software training.
So what does this mean?
Process management needs to include both structured and un-structured ad hoc processes. Typical processes still need to be managed (claims, service requests, etc.) and ad-hoc process (those processes that are more collaborative and less structured) must be supported via process applications (case management, for example). This requires the ability to build and modify process applications much more easily. And the best way to do that is to get the user involved—it’s faster and results are quickly evaluated and adjustments can be made.
It all comes down to speed and simplicity—speed to deploy, evaluate and optimize. Know if your process will deliver or it needs to be adjusted is key to your success. You simply can’t wait months to find out. When the market changes or customer needs change, you need to adapt quickly so nothing is missed. Achieving this new standard for business process management is what we will be talking about at this year’s Enterprise World. We can’t wait.
New Innovations in Process Suite
We are excited to reveal the latest from the OpenText Process Suite in Las Vegas in a few weeks. Building applications quickly to manage processes is at the core our innovation strategy. We are working to empower the Citizen Developer to ease the burden on IT and give the business the control and access to solve issues directly and effectively. These new capabilities will come to market along with key improvements in the Process Intelligence component along with several new and updated pre-built applications.
We hear from many of our customers that the priority is to gain the flexibility and ability to customize and evolve their process application quickly. This includes greater flexibility in what you can do on mobile devices and how you can leverage the cloud. We are excited to share all the new news with you at Enterprise World.
Join us in Vegas
We will be showcasing new capabilities with Process Platform, new process applications and more in Las Vegas. You will have the opportunity to meet with the experts behind the innovation and talk to customers who are benefitting from the platform today. Check out information on this and all the breakout sessions at Enterprise World 2015 online at http://www.opentext.com/campaigns/enterprise-world-2015/program/sessions.