My presentation at the BPM 2019 workshop on BPM for digital innovation and transformation

1. BPM as the Keystone of
Business Automation Platforms
More business agility through a more flexible architecture
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2. Business imperatives
Agility for innovation
• Respond to market and
regulatory changes
• Change business
processes
• Offer new
products
Scalability for survival
• Respond to unexpected
business volumes
• Automate processes
• Scale infrastructure
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3. Explicit BPM processes = agility
•Process models understandable by business
• Shared vision of business processes
• Identification of innovation points
•Change process without changing code
• Fast prototyping/deployment of new processes
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4. BPM automation = scalability
•Automate routine tasks
•Route human tasks based on skills required
•Scale process engine independent from
other systems
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5. Business automation architecture patterns:
from monolith to microservices
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Monolith SOA iBPMS Microservices

6. What’s in a business automation platform?
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BPMN
CMMNDMN

7. Monolithic BPMS as a BAP
• Small to mid-sized company
or department
• Commodity core processes in
COTS system (e.g., ERP)
• Not “in the software business”
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8. Multi-vendor microservices BAP
• Large company or tech startup
• Core processes are a
competitive differentiator
• Robust development team
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9. Thanks!
Sandy Kemsley
sandy@kemsleydesign.com
Read my blog at column2.com
Find me on Twitter @skemsley
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