COMPUTERWELT - Edition 39, September 22nd 2006

Holistic Business Process Management by Dr. Herbert Liebl

Over the last years companies recognized the importance of process-oriented aspects in many business areas. Apart from challenges such as establishing process oriented organizational structures it is also important to recognize the importance of process-oriented IT-based systems. Such solutions are known as BPM - Business Process Management solutions. Subdisciplines of BPM are process modelling, automation, monitoring and optimization.

These topics have been handled over the last years with specialized software within each discipline - however the concept of unifying all of the above mentioned fields within one software solution is new. Leading software vendors such as webMethods, Tibco, inubit and SAP XI are already in a position to fulfill these challenging requirements.