<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663071415023443460</id><updated>2008-05-01T14:47:16.382-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NowForms - Business Process Management</title><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nowdocs.com/blog/NF_bpm.html'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5663071415023443460/posts/default'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nowdocs.com/blog/NF_bpm.xml'/><author><name>NowDocs</name></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663071415023443460.post-3367868065907962651</id><published>2008-04-11T15:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-11T15:34:00.573-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Business Process Management</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;NowDocs BPM solution provides an advanced layered, metadata-driven, dynamic framework architecture that provides a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and integrates with an expanding suite of Microsoft products and technologies such as Office, SharePoint, BizTalk, Windows Workflow&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Foundation, Office OpenXML, Forms Server, Exchange, SQL Server, Visio, InfoPath, Visual Studio, and more.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;This architecture facilitates the Microsoft People-Ready vision by enabling the abstraction of business logic into reusable common services and IT assets that business manager can include in process models to build directly executable workflows and/or composite applications at the process layer, saving time and cost while greatly increasing the IT manageability and agility, making business more agile and competitive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Industry and Vertical Focus&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;ALL, especially:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="line-height: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Primary – Financial Services&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="line-height: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Secondary – Manufacturing&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="line-height: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Tertiary – Healthcare &amp;amp; Life Sciences&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Functionality Selection&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Primary – Collaboration/ Knowledge Management&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Secondary – &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Enterprise&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt; Integration (with BizTalk)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Tertiary – Business Intelligence&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Target Audience and Business Need&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Decision Maker – CIO, COO, VP/Dir. of IT, etc&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Users – Business Analysts, BDMs, End-Users&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Need – Responsive to business changes, better integration with existing enterprise systems, better management of IT assets&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;• Results – Greater collaboration between business units and IT Departments, Agility, Dynamic Organization,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Reduce TCO, Increase ROI 60%)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;When to engage, when not to engage&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;When customers (either IT or business units) look for:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• a BPM solution that meets their compliance policy&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• business solutions that can allow them to quickly define and deploy workflows within their LOB applications&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• a solution to manage long running, highly dynamic, ad hoc, non pre-definable business processes (e.g. new product development, dynamic exception handling, etc.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• an architecture that can allow them to better support the ever increasing business requirements;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• solution to better manage their IT assets&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• better process integration with their existing enterprise systems.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;Out-of-the-Box Solution Stack&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• Business Process designer on Visio with pre-defined IT assets such as integration to SharePoint, BizTalk, Web Services, Mail systems and others&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• Visual SOA application builder&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;• Process migration, automation, simulation, modeling tool.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;Solution Environment Integration&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Collaboration and Communication Suite&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;InfoPath&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;SharePoint Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;SharePoint Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;InfoPath Forms Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;SQL Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;BizTalk Server&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Visual Studio (.NET, C#, VB.NET, XML, Web Service,      etc.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(79, 130, 190);"&gt;Top Reasons to Buy Solution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;For companies seeking differentiated competitiveness through:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Increase business agility with a People-Ready      BPMS;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;The ability to create and deploy highly      adaptable workflows in minutes;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Accelerate SOA success with process-aware      ‘visual’ common services;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Providing real-time self-documenting compliance;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Managing highly dynamic, non pre-definable,      ad-hoc business processes (i.e. processes that can not be converted into      code in advance to create an executable. 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