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What is an iBPMS?
The iBPMS represents the next evolution of BPM-enabling capabilities. By incorporating more analytics — and other technologies, such as deep CEP, social media and mobile devices — into process orchestration, process participants have better real-time situation awareness and can tailor their response most appropriately to emerging business threats and opportunities. Although simulation, optimization, BAM and business intelligence tools have been included in our definition of a BPMS for years, we are now seeing these and other, more advanced technologies become better integrated into the stack. This evolution is similar to the past evolution from pure-play BPM products to BPMSs.
What Does an iBPMS Do?
It allows organizations to have more intelligent processes that can be aimed at better operations minimally and innovative processes easily. The iBPMS does this by enhancing a businesses situational awareness by seeking patterns of interest, enabling quicker / more effective decisions through poly-analytics and rapid adaptation for appropriate actions through flexible processes
What Differentiates an iBPMS from Current-generation BPMSs?
Social media to incorporate more external data sources, external perspectives (such as experts and customer voices) and context data into the entire life cycle (not just the design-time experience). Social media can enhance and provide more information about the situational context. Social media will also support additional analytical techniques, such as social network analysis, to support decisions regarding the best next actions. This also allows for better collaboration and crowdsourcing.
Mobile device support to give individual contributors and supervisors 24/7 access to work to sustain responsiveness, and to allow for mobile interactions within the process context, especially in global operations.
Expanded active analytic capabilities in such areas as business activity monitoring (BAM) and CEP technologies to provide broader, better and predictive analytics; deeper and interactive business dashboards; better real-time visibility into process performance; more timely alerts for exception conditions; improved process intelligence; and better context awareness.
Integration with on-demand analytic tools, such as statistical (predictive) analytics and simulation. When applied in an IBO context, these tools are aimed at repeatable, operational decisions, rather than ad hoc tactical or strategic kinds of decisions. The same analytics can play a role in active analytics (for example, when invoked by a BAM or CEP platform).
An expanding set of decision management tools leveraging “poly-analytics,” including more powerful support for rule management, optimization and simulation technologies, as well as constraint-based optimization engines that use advanced mathematical techniques to weigh trade-offs and generate the most effective available decision.
Access to new forms of unstructured and external information sources, including video, audio and social streams.
Role-based user access, user experience and interaction pattern support.
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Many of the success snippets that have been published on this blog of real implementations have been based on an iBPMS or the contributing technologies to the iBPMS platforms.
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