The newer breed of Business Process Management (BPM) Suites incorporate many of the modern technologies, such as mobile access, social collaboration, cloud computing, and data analytics. These are some of the key components that make up intelligent BPM Suite (iBPMS) to meet the increasing market demands and complex use cases. Learn more about the components of an iBPMS and download additional assets on http://www.appian.com/bpm-software/overview.jsp.

1. Components of an
Intelligent BPM Suite
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2. A Modern, Intelligent BPM Suite
A Technology Platform that Supports a Process Management Discipline
Group & App
Content & Management Social
Case Collaboration
Management
Process Business
Modeling Rules
BPMS Service
Process
Oriented
Optimization
Architecture
BAM, Reporti Process
ng & Registry &
Analytics Connectivity Repository
Enterprise
Mobility Cloud & Integration
Computing

3. Process Modeling
 Process diagram
 Process
steps, workflow
sequence, tasks &
activities
 Participants & roles
 Decisions gateways
and rules
 Exceptions & timer
 BPMN standard

4. Content & Case Management
 Content repository
 Content management
 Version control
 Document generation

5. Content & Case Management
 Content repository
 Content management
 Version control
 Document generation
 Process integration
Options:
 Best: Natively built
 Better: Integrated
 Fine: Relies on 3rd party
repository

6. Group & Application Management
 Access
 Security
 System management
 Log support
 Audit trails

7. Social Collaboration
 Social BPM
 Key events monitoring
 Status updates
 Real-time collaboration
 Tasks and actions
 Feed subscriptions
 Secure sharing
 Following
 Social profiles

8. Business Rules
 Rules repository
 Rule creation
 Accessibility
 Validation
 Processing
 Extensibility

9. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
 Modular approach to
software design &
development
 Build software components
with interoperable web
services
 Platform agnostic

10. Process Registry & Repository
 Publish process models as
web services
 Leverage and reuse
process components
 Web Services Description
Language (WSDL)
standard
 Universal Description
Discovery & Integration
(UDDI) Registry
 OSGi Compliant

11. Connectivity & Integration
 Access enterprise data in
 Databases
 3rd party services (RSS
feeds, Google Maps)
 Systems (SAP, Oracle)
 Applications
(SalesForce, PeopleSoft
Financials)
 Connect to
email, messaging, SFTP, &
corporate directories

12. Cloud Computing
Portability between on-premise & cloud instances
Security & reliability with 99.95% SLA uptime
guarantee and FISMA Certification
Flexible, on-demand instances for
development and test services

13. Enterprise Mobility
 Native mobile applications on  Access news, tasks & actions
 Apple iOS devices  Mobile collaboration
(iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)
 Tasks & approvals
 Google Android phones
 Blackberry phones  Event monitoring
 Image & voice capture

14. BAM, Reporting & Analytics
 Real-time metrics on all enterprise
processes and tasks
 Business activity monitoring (BAM) to
capture performance metrics
 Graphical reports out-of-the-box
 Actionable dynamic reports to
sort, group, aggregate, filter, and drill-
down
 BI integration to include process
performance data with operational and
business intelligence data

15. Process Optimization
 Track user and team performance by
identifying issues in real-time
 Predictive analytics based on past
performance & trends
 Search & filter through processes and
tasks
 On-demand analytics to export report
data to a 3rd party analytics tool

16. Drive Enterprise Transformation with iBPMS
A modern technology platform with comprehensive capabilities
Group & App
Content & Management Social
Case Collaboration
Management
Process Business
Modeling Rules
BPMS Service
Process
Oriented
Optimization
Architecture
BAM, Reporti Process
ng & Registry &
Analytics Connectivity Repository
Enterprise
Mobility Cloud & Integration
Computing

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