Advisory council seeks to heighten corporate business performance
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/11/2008 6:00:00 AM
Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, is launching the Software AG BPM Advisory Council, an independent panel of practitioners and thought leaders that will develop new strategies for the use of business process management (BPM) technology to improve operational performance—particularly surround use of webMethods BPMS, Software AG’s process design, execution, monitoring and management platform.
Business process management is a technology-enabled management discipline for transforming targeted business strategies into continuous and sustainable process improvements. It is objective-based in its use of real-time, statistical analysis to measure, manage, and improve core business processes so that enterprises manage to standard and practitioners can focus their resources on the operational criteria of greatest importance to their organization.
Using BPM to tie business strategy to the underlying IT architecture also means that business change can be more readily detected and subsequent improvements more easily enacted.
“Our goal is to make quantum leaps in corporate performance more readily achievable by our global customer base of more than 4,000 enterprises,” says Ivo Totev, chief marketing officer, Software AG. “The experience and perspective of our BPM Advisory Council will play an important role in our continued development of methodologies, best practices, and process frameworks that fully capitalize on BPM’s huge potential.”
Dr. Kiran Garimella, a Software AG VP and chair of the BPM Advisory Council, believes the company has just scratched the surface for what's possible in terms of better responsiveness and greater efficiencies. "By creating an automated, measurable, and replicable framework for implementing core business strategies, BPM can dramatically improve operational performance," says Garimella. "Working with a team of global experts—well-versed in both leading management disciplines as well as the power of IT—our goal is to help enterprises more fully capitalize on BPM’s potential.”
