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What is business process management (BPM)? Business process management (BPM) is an organizational discipline that analyzes the current state of the organization in order to improve efficiency. The term refers to how a company creates, adjusts, and analyzes the processes that comprise its core business.

Business process management is different from task management (which focuses on individual tasks) and project management (which focuses on specific projects). This discipline is focused on repetitive processes that follow a predictable pattern.

Poorly managed business processes can cause loss of business and reputation. It is important to have a wide range of visibility over the effects of a process, where it starts and ends, what data it requires, and where there can be potential bottlenecks and issues.

Business process management (BPM) is an area where IT and business (theoretically) work together to make an organization’s workflows more effective and efficient. BPM has become more prominent in recent years as organizations have expanded and grown more complex – creating a need for managers to build coherent process workflows that touch multiple systems. BPM software brings it all together, enabling business analysts to collaborate with IT and orchestrate business process steps that invoke different underlying systems.

BPM is one of those concepts that sounds great, and has truly strong potential but is notoriously hard to implement well. As a result, members of PeerSpot emphasize usability as a key selection factor when deciding which BPM solution to buy. Users want fast results and easy deployment from BPM tools. On the end user front, powerful wizards, for example, can streamline workflow design and automation processes. The best BPM tools provide mechanisms for capturing business processes. This minimizes the repetitive, error-prone process of transposing business analysts’ observations into BPM requirements.

On the back end, admins and architects want the ability to integrate with other systems like SAP, Oracle and so forth. BPM platforms have to be flexible, modeling business processes transversely to all areas of a company. The toolset should ideally accept multiple data types and offer rules-based decision workflow capabilities. There should be logical modeling and embedded programming within BPM libraries. Task components ought to be reusable for the sake of efficiency.

Some users express a desire for BPM software packages to support Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), a standard for the graphical representation for describing business processes. Specifically, PeerSpot members expect a BPM suite to support BPMN 2.0, the latest version, from modeling through execution. In the best case scenario, the tool won’t create extra work for developers. Users like real java-like hooks into development of the business process model to help developers easily build integrations. Members prefer BPM that doesn't use any type of proprietary scripting language.

Leaderboard for Business Process Management (BPM)

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#1. Ariful Mondal

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Consulting Practice Partner - Data, Analytics & AI at FH

Reviewed Apache Airflow:

Managing large scale Data Pipeline and Python tasks have been made easy

#2. HimanshuTejwani

935

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System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company

Reviewed Appian:

The UI and its performance are very nice

#3. VamsiKrishna2

725

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Software Trainee at Eidiko

Reviewed IBM Business Automation Workflow:

Useful custom user interface design, reliable, and simple installation

690

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Enterprise Architect at Blueray Digital Services

Reviewed Nintex Workflow:

Good support, straightforward to set up, and improves our process performance

#5. Viktor Dolyna

625

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DevOps Engineer at Integrity

Reviewed IBM BPM:

Provides us with full visibility and insight relating to managing business processes

#6. Ravi Suvvari

580

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Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect

Reviewed IBM BPM:

Faster task loading to groups and users is needed but it is a good product for task management.

#7. Julio Falcón

485

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Product Manager at Nodos Consultores

Reviewed Studio Creatio:

A complete solution with great support, good stability, and easy setup

#8. Arancha Cortes Guasch

440

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Founder at AC Lean

Reviewed AuraQuantic:

A digital platform that's flexible and user-friendly, but the price could be better

#9. Oscar Mejia

435

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IT-Services Manager & Solution Architect at Stratis

Reviewed Camunda Platform:

A flexible solution that allows you to have a BPM bot with your own UI

#10. reviewer1529571

410

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Acquisitions Leader at a healthcare company

Reviewed Appian:

Provides us with real-time data on all connected systems

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