BPM Working in Financial Services


-- Your Challenges

Complex business issues are facing the financial services industry today. You must continuously and rapidly fine-tune your operations to respond to changing business conditions, whether your business is securities, insurance or banking. Improving customer service, regulatory compliance and the on-going industry consolidation all make it seem as if complexity is growing at an overwhelming pace, especially as staff spends untold amounts of time and money trying to manage information, create unified processes, and obtain approvals for the fundamentals of their job.

To meet these challenges, many organizations have deployed enterprise applications with mixed results. Why? Leveraging applications for business improvement and competitive advantage must involve looking at how these systems are used, how they interact with and streamline the unique business processes that only your company owns.

Your business processes are what link enterprise systems together for true connectivity. Processes must be designed to enhance productivity and competitiveness in a way that works within your environment. That means adjusting and redefining such processes as how employees interact within each functional area, across geographic boundaries, and, most importantly, with partners and customers.

Other process-centric demands include:

 
Complying with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and meeting goals such as T+1 processing
 • 
Improving customer service levels by providing a single point of contact
 • 
Accelerating new customer acquisition
 • 
Improving straight through processing (STP) for operational efficiency
 • 
Integrating new processes with legacy systems
 • 
Automating manual operations to reduce errors and guarantee process consistency
 • 
Improving exception resolution to minimize bottlenecks and inefficiencies
 • 
Gaining insight into the lowest level of business operations for greater risk management.



-- Our Solutions

We understand the unique needs of the financial services industry and how they can better succeed with efficient process execution. Proven, enterprise-level BPM platform—e-Work—is the foundation that enables companies to design and deploy processes that increase output and manage resources in an unprecedented manner. BPM technology and proven expertise is helping financial services organizations around the world achieve regulatory compliance, reduce risks, retain and acquire customers, tie together silo processes and systems, and do more with less.

The e-Work BPM platform provides an open, standards-based framework by which designers and implementers can easily integrate external applications or application components. With easy-to-use tools for modeling, designing, managing, and changing processes, users own, maintain and optimize their processes. And, the platform provides all the components needed to support a continuous process improvement cycle using BPM. Finally, our approach offers rapid design and deployment with complete control over continuous improvements based on insight into how the business is running.