Business-process-modeling technology provides a powerful set of tools for describing and automating processes. The technology is so powerful that it often seems there are no limits to what BPM can do.

Ongoing research into the area of business process management (BPM) continues to show that the majority of business personnel still use Microsoft's Visio to build desktop models of business processes.

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In the digital economy, speed, precision, and compliance are non-negotiable, and organizations can’t afford to have inefficient processes getting in the way of those objectives. In order to be ...

Lombardi Teamworks 6 Enterprise sets the curve with superior simulation and analysis tools, nicely integrated performance monitoring, and unmatched ease of development for IT and business users The ...

Giving employees more input -- via wikis, social networks, blogs and the like -- into the way workflows are structured and executed should make them more invested, and thus more efficient, in their ...

The most well-rounded business process management system (BPMS) we’ve tested to date, Lombardi Software’s Teamworks combines an execution and events monitoring engine with a close-knit IDE and tools ...

Tony Baer from OnStrategies livened up BPM Think Tank 2007 with his talk, "BPMs are from Venus -- SOAs from Mars." With that phrase, Baer is basically saying that business process management (BPM) ...

BPMN earned its place in financial services because it promised a shared language. Something business stakeholders could read and govern, yet precise enough to translate into executable process ...

The OMG (Object Management Group) expects to have a final version of the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) 2.0 specification, featuring capabilities such as collaborative process modeling, ...