Process Automation through BPM-n-SOA

Process Automation Overview

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Process Automation
Process Automation – Business
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Change is Accelerating . . … Will You Keep Up?
CEOs Worry About Their
Business Agility
98% of CEOs expect their
business models will need to
change
Agile businesses have 29%
higher earnings per share.

Source: Business Technology Management Institute

“We have seen more change in the last ten years than in the
previous 90.” Ad F. Scheepbouwer, CEO KPN Telecom
Source: IBM Global CEO Study 2008



Organizations are constantly “raising the bar”
by continuously improving their business processes

CIO's top priority over last three years:
“Improving Business Processes”
Source: Gartner, “Making the Difference: The 2008 CIO Agenda,” Jan. 2008



BPM provides benefits across
a broad spectrum of business processes:
§ Structured, Simple-n-Local
§ Employee On-boarding
§ Merchandising
§ Structured Complex-n-Global
§ Payments
§ Claims
§ Un-Structured, Simple-n-Local
§ Contracts
§ Un-Structured, Complex-n-Global
§ Supply Chain
§ Case Management



Leverage BPM to address critical business needs

Business Needs Common BPM Adoption Patterns
“Greater efficiency and End-to-End
reduced costs” Process Automation

“Real-time visibility for Transform Insight
smarter decisions and into Action
actions”

“Faster and easier to Adapt and
respond to change” Respond Dynamically



Collaborate through Process Modeling
Collaborate
Fully understand impacts before deploying!
Business Process
Successful BPM Projects requires the Leader Owner
active participation of business experts
and IT personnel in the Process-modeling exercise

• Business users benefit through collaboration with IT
Business
coworkers, partners and customer across the value chain Analyst Developer

• Collaboration capabilities improve productivity and drive
rapid innovation for increased ROI IT Architect

• Leverage collaboration capabilities in the WebSphere
Business Process Management products



Rapidly Converts Business-User Expertise into Action
Graphical Process Modeling
Documenting with
process-modeling enables
Visio
collaboration and
quick deployment! PowerPoint*
• use of common tools
Excel
• import content
• simulate-n-deploy rapidly ARIS

• easier collaboration Others…
• fewer misunderstandings



Improve Business Performance - Reduce Costs

Simplify or Ensure
Streamline business consistency and
Eliminate Exceptions
activities compliance
Claims Lifecycle Spare Parts Global Payments
Management Replenishment Processing
Healthcare Aerospace and Defense Banking



Process Automation
• Streamlines processes across existing
assets and infrastructure

• Seamlessly automates manual tasks,
IT systems, and information

• Complements and extends current
applications Automated Process
Systems Data Customers

• Leverages reusable process Partners Content Applications
components
ü Eliminates duplicate data entry
ü Shortens process cycle times



End-to-End Process Automation
increases business value by spanning silos
End-to-End Processes Span Silos
Business results can Sales Operations Partners Finance
include:
• Lower costs
• Reduced cycle time
• Greater consistency
• Easier to manage

Source: North American company supply chain process



Process Automation provides process integrity
• Businesses live by their
Service Level Agreements Best of Both: Flexibility combined
with scalability and reliability
• Scalability to allow for future
growth

• Accommodate demanding,
transaction intensive processes

• SOA enabled process flexibility

• Consistency and recovery to
safeguard against system failures
Source: IBM results for market leading U.S. financial services firm.
Measured from gateway to order matching engine and back



Process Automation
increases efficiency and productivity
§ Streamline human interaction to reduce cycle time
ü Full automation where possible
§ Minimize human touch for processes requiring
human interaction
ü Presents the right information at the right time to
the right people
§ Provides flexibility to dynamically engage
knowledge workers where needed
ü Skip, jump, repeat or insert activities

Source: Large Chinese Telecommunications firm



Process Automation Simplifies
or Eliminates Exceptions

• Respond to changing
business needs with greater
flexibility
Jump forward & backward
• Dynamically assign roles
based on runtime context
• Support for ad-hoc human 4
collaboration 1 2 5 6 7

• Multi-level escalation 3

mechanisms Decide to skip activity 6 in the process



Process Integration Ensures Compliance
Consistency: Do what you say, say what you do:
• Prove that processes are doing what you claim they do
• Process integrated with governance, security, workplace and
organizational policies

Confidence: Processes run as designed
• Full audit trail of what was done by who,
where and when
• Closed loop end-to-end process optimization
capability
• Process agility and flexibility to enable faster
response time
Source: German financial company governance project



Process Automation Enables Faster ROI.
Interactive Process Design
Quickly define, test, and deploy
complete BPM solutions
• New processes are implemented
quickly and correctly
Business
Analyst • Reduced confusion between
business and IT
• Greater business insight into
Faster modeling to execution
daily work activities
Interact & test process designs & forms
in managed sandbox, using • Less strain on IT people and
role-based business spaces. infrastructure
Import PowerPoint process diagrams.



Combining the power of BPM and SOA in one engine
Robust platform that is easy to deploy
• Complete toolbox for building
composite applications
• One easy-to-learn end user
interface, based on Eclipse
technology
• Design that is built for reuse and
flexibility
• Reach to any services across your Supports process choreography across
enterprise to extend the scope of applications, systems, and people
solutions quickly and easily. • Flexible Infrastructure Enables Process
• Integrated server built on an open Change
standards-based ESB. • Assemble and Execute mission critical
processes


Empowering business users with collaboration tools
Visualize, document, and model business processes
• Easy-to-use BPM tool for business
users to graphically model, analyze,
simulate human workflows and
automated business processes
• Empowers business users beyond
modelling
• Visualize and storyboard user interaction
• Simulate execution of processes with
detailed statistical analysis tools Modeler enables faster deployments and
• Optimize business operations by running return on investments
“what if” scenarios
• Provides integrated industry content to
• Define Metrics, KPIs, Counter
jumpstart solution development
• Enables collaboration and information • Deploy and run human workflows on a
sharing on BPM projects Process Server



Process Automation Helps Align Roles-n-Stakeholders
To Business Goals, Objectives and Performance

Business Business
Leader Analyst

Manage and Monitor from desktop and/or Modify rules, policies and processes
mobile devices

Business Process
User Owner

Review KPIs, manage task lists and Analyze metrics, optimize process
staff productivity models and dashboards
Empowers Line of Business with minimal IT involvement


Process Automation delivers a range of
powerful business outcomes

Application processing time Reduced retail order
cut from 2 weeks to 2 days errors by 89%

Processing time reduced from 32 Lowered supply chain paper
hours to less than 30 minutes handling costs by 63%


Automate critical emergency response processes
City of Madrid,
Spain

Government Pains Smarter Business Outcomes:
• Poor coordination • Real-time, coordinated deployment of police, fire
between safety and and ambulatory emergency response teams and
security personnel assets
• Automated delivery of crucial information to the
right teams

Automate processes across disparate IT systems and mobile devices in a
secure environment with extremely high availability and reliability


Process Automation is happening in your industry
Retail: Customer Loyalty, Telco: Service provisioning,
Merchandising, web transactions, customer loyalty, regulatory
customer experience, Real-time compliance
Demand Signaling

Banking: Customer Profitability, Health Care:
lowering of costs across multiple Cost vs. Care Analysis,
business channels, regulatory health monitoring,
compliance, self service Claims, Therapeutics …

Government: Customer Payments,
Legal and social services, Consumer Products: Demand Planning;
implementing legislation and Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
regulatory compliance (MRO); and Promotion Analysis

Insurance: Analytics for Cross-Sell
and Up-Sell opportunities and Risk Financial Markets: Straight through
Management, claims processing processing, stock trading,
Management and Compliance Dashboards

Electronics: Supply Chain Automotive: Customer Analytics,
Analytics, Plant Floor Automation
and Preventive Maintenance Preventive Recall and Quality
Management



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