Overview

We are dedicated to helping you "keep current" on Business Process Managemen technology, including market trends, business publications, educational seminars, architecture, technical tips & techniques, deployment methodologies and much more.

Here, you can have access to that latest information all in one place. Like We strive to provide the best learning environment to help you succeed. Blue Streak provides BPM-focused curriculum as well as direct links to reference materials. We walk you through BPM knowledge – starting with the basics and advancing into complex subject matter areas. You will gain insight into BPM technology, methods for evaluating and fulfilling your BPM needs, and guidance on achieving true enterprise automation.
 

This section was designed to
provide you with an impartial
perspective of BPM an essential due-dillgence step as you evaluate how BPM can help you. 



A Look at the Fundamentals of BPM Technology

Gain insight into the basics behind BPM technology and its recent popularity as a valuable technology investment for organizations. Get an understanding of where BPM started, the pioneers, and what to look for in vendors today.

• Jul 2004 Study: BPM Tools Improve Manual Efforts, CIO Today
• Apr 2004 Implementing a Business Process Management System, BPM Today
• Apr 2004 Analysis: Why is BPM Important?, BPM Today
• Mar 2004 BPM from the Ground Up: What Is a Business Process?, BPM Today
• Mar 2004 BPM—The promises and the practice Part 1, KMWorld
• Feb 2004 BPM for Dummies, BPM Today
• Mar 2004 Perspective: Pay attention to BPM, CNET
• Feb 2004 The Humble Yet Mighty Business Process, Darwin Magazine
• Nov 2004 Process Pioneers, Infoconomy





Where Does BPM Fit in the Enterprise?

Learn about how BPM technology fits into current IT infrastructures. Among the defining characteristics of BPM technology is its ability to leverage, when appropriate, existing IT assets such as packaged applications or application objects. Understand the impact of standards, web services and other technologies on BPM solutions.

• Dec 2002 A Fight to the Finish for Business Process Standards? The biggest challenge will be in giving control to the businesses themselves. Web Services Journal
• Jan 2003 Blurring the Boundaries, Informationweek
• Mar 2004 e-Work and Web Services – A Metastorm White Paper
• Sep 2004 Integration with e-Work – A Metastorm White Paper





Many organizations have deployed enterprise applications to lower costs, increase revenue, and help their employees do their jobs better, but realized mixed results. Why? A critical element for success has been overlooked—the focus on the business processes that cross-functional and geographic boundaries, require deep customization for unique business process requirements, or simply have gaps that cannot be filled by packaged solutions. Learn how BPM fills in the gaps for true business performance.

• Apr 2003 Where Will All This Lead? - A Future With BPO Might Just Lead to Home Depot, Darwin Magazine
• Jan 2003 BPM: Antidote to Inefficiency, Health Management Technology
• Mar 2002 Business Process Management – The Key to Efficient Government, Aberdeen Group





How does BPM Improve Service, Increase Revenue and Decrease Costs?

Companies today are looking for and should expect BPM-enabled solutions to drive fast, measurable impact on the top and bottom line. Learn how BPM can focus organizations on their processes, which represent the sum total of people, activities and systems across the company. Understand how BPM solutions organize, streamline and automate these valuable assets so that employees can concentrate on their essential functions. See how organizations can experience quantifiable results.

• Jul 2004 BPM Delivers Tactical and Strategic ROI, NewsFactor
• Apr 2004 Getting a Handle on the Cost of BPM, BPM Today
• Aug 2002 eGovernance – A New Organizational Paradigm, by Hap Cluff of the City of Norfolk
• Nov 2002 Business Process Management-The Third Wave, a book by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar. Read the reviews and place your order.





Why Is It the Market Leader?

The right BPM platform provides a comprehensive framework for automating people-intensive and paper-based processes, integrating legacy and packaged solutions into everyday operations, and most importantly instituting process control and policies that allow organizations to manage risk and comply with external mandates and regulations. Done right, BPM solutions allow businesses to take full ownership of their processes—making adjustments in real time as conditions change. See what the analysts say about the Metastorm approach to BPM. Get an understanding of the Metastorm BPM platform – e-Work – and its unique position in this market.

• Jun 2004 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Pure-Play BPM, 2Q04
• Jan 2002 Metastorm and Business Process Management (Butler Group)