Saturday, December 20, 2008
Janssen Pharmaceutica implements PNMsoft's SEQUENCE BPM Business Process Management Workflow Platform
London, December 18 -- Aexis, the Belgium Business Intelligence Company has implemented PNMsoft’s SEQUENCE BPM & Workflow platform at Belgium’s Janssen Pharmaceutica.Janssen Pharmaceutica is part of the world’s largest healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson.
The BPM Solution aims at facilitating the interaction and discussion between all parties involved the development of a new product. This includes technical design, medical as well as marketing people.
Paul Sheridan VP Sales and Marketing for PNMsoft said “The use of SEQUENCE to support collaborative working helps speed time to market, from automating the document review processes and the Product Lifecycle management processes and linking innovation to the marketing processes in a end to end executable process view surfacing information from ERP and CRM systems to the business users.”
PNMsoft business process management suites enable business stockholders to monitor all interactions between human, system and information resources and optimize behavior to get the most out of dynamic market events and improve business performance outcomes.
PNMsoft BPM software is a model-driven workflow environment that makes the model executable, while keeping the model as the central focus for future process changes. The graphical model is actually metadata that is translated by software into the executed process dynamically.
BPM software supports the complete business process improvement cycle, from definition to implementation, monitoring and analysis, and through ongoing optimization.
As a software infrastructure platform, PNMsoft BPM software enables business and IT professionals to work more collaboratively on all business process design, development, execution and enhancement activities and to close the execution gap between IT and the business.
PNMsoft is headquartered in Watford England with offices and business partners across Europe an North America.
About AexisAexis is a true Business Intelligence Company. More than 30 years of experience as an independent BI expert allows Aexis to take a unique position in the market of BI solution providers. Thanks to Aexis’s extended knowledge-base, high-end technology and a client-responsive staff, Aexis can provide you the solutions that offer the highest added value for your company.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
BPM Software Leader PNMsoft Chosen By Home Group For Business Process Management
BPM Software Leader PNMsoft Chosen By Home Group For Business Process Management
The PNMsoft team has much to smile about as they watch their clients
operations and revenue grow through the use of their BPM software.
By Nina Salzman
Israel News Agency
Tel Aviv ---- October 19, 2008 ....... The Home Group Limited, UK's largest social house builder and management organization has selected PNMsoft's BPM software and workflow product Sequence as its business process management and workflow platform for a multi million pound program.
PNMsoft BPM software is headquartered in Watford, England with offices and business partners across Europe and North America. PNMsoft, a Microsoft Solutions Provider with R&D facilities in Netanya, Israel, was recently endorsed by Bill Gates.
Home Group's BPM software programme involves the cross-organisational deployment of SEQUENCE starting with Internet and extranet systems and processes. The BPM software benefits include internal and external customer satisfaction as well as savings to the company's infrastructure costs.
The Home Group Limited turnover is GBP230 million. The company owns 55,000 dwellings in 800 different sites, and is England's largest provider of social housing solutions for Local Regional Government.
Home Group's Project Manager Paul Kelly says "The Sequence BPM software solution will be at the heart of all future Web-based applications deployed by Home Group, and is considered to be one of the most strategic applications, and therefore investments, in terms of future IT/IS systems. PNMsoft's Sequence offered the best value for money to Home Group and key to this decision was the close alignment to Microsoft SharePoint, a strong user interface and a scalable platform."
Recently, Catholic Caring Services, with £2,000 funding from Home Group, opened a brand new facility at Ewanrigg & Netherton Community Centre, Ennerdale Road in Maryport, England.
‘The Good Food Community Cafe'’, which will initially be run by local volunteers who all have vast experience in the cafe' and restaurant trade, will open every Tuesday, between 9 am and 3 pm and will serve great home cooked hot and cold food at very reasonable prices. The year 2009 will see the project develop into a social enterprise with opportunities for training and employment. Staff from Home and Copeland Homes picked up no fewer than four accolades at the recent West Cumbria Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership awards, which took place at The Wave in Maryport.
Home Group also recently teamed up with one of England leading energy suppliers, a leading green support services company and the UK Government’s national affordable homes agency to reduce carbon emissions across its housing stock.
Home joins the Housing Corporation, EDF Energy and eaga, one of the largest providers of domestic energy solutions in Europe, to distribute the light bulbs, donated by EDF Energy, and issued to homes where tenants might be vulnerable to fuel poverty.
Paul Sheridan, PNMsoft's VP of sales said: "The objective of the deployment of the BPM software Sequence is to become the focal point of the company's internal and external process network. Sequence will automate and manage a variety of business processes at Home Group, including handling residential customers, local regional government customers, human resources and administrative affairs, and will reduce internal costs to the benefit of the Home Group's operational bottom line."
PNMsoft offers flexible business-user oriented BPMS and workflow solutions. Focusing 10 years on Business Process Management, PNMsoft has achieved a position of subject matter expert in the BPM/Workflow product arena, and is a member of Microsoft's BPM Alliance. Sequence is installed at over 250 companies worldwide.
PNMsoft's SEQUENCE facilitates rapid end user acceptance via the Microsoft UI, providing business users operational KPI and simulation capabilities as well as the automated management of business processes and organisational information. The system enables automated management of a multitude of business processes (production, development, purchasing, finance, HR and more) while dramatically reducing time and resource expenditures.
PNMsoft BPM Business Process Management software solutions provider enjoys a wide array of international clients, including: in High Tech - Philips, Comverse, Microsoft, Alvarion, Alladin, Matrix, NDS, Avaya, Electra, communications group Mirs, Tower Semi Conductor, Motorola, Philips, Avaya and in the public sector - the Israel government, Home Group, QCA, Arqiva, Province of Antwerp, HSFO,
ONE, OCWA Government Home Group and QCA.
PNMsoft offers BPM software solutions to the financial services industry with several clients including: Leumi Bank, Benleumi Bank, FIBI, SwiftTrade, OBG Law, Irish Stock Exchange, Beinleuimi, Swifttrade and in telecom has provided BPM software to Amdocs banking systems, RAD, Cellcom mobile phones company, and Bell Canada. Engineering clients include: Miller and Atkins, with manufacturing clients Allied Bakeries, Associated British Foods, Tnuva Foods, RH, Machteshim, Allied Bakeries and Tnuva Food Industries.
Transportation clients who have received BPM software from PNMsoft are: El AlAirlines, Arkia, defense and commercial giant Israel Aircraft Industries, HRG and Sky Service. Healthcare business process management software clients include: Johnson & Johnson, Janssen and GE. PNMsoft BPM Software solutions are also provided to the IDF - Israel Army, Maman, Orbis, ORT, Shvoong, Sonol Oil and Gas, Rudgged.com and Eden mineral water and beverages company.
BPM software (business process management) is an integrated collection of critical software technologies that enables the control and management of business processes.
BPM software emphasizes business user involvement in the entire business process improvement life cycle, from design through implementation, deployment, monitoring and ongoing optimization. Instead of reducing reliance on employees, BPM - Business Process Management software emphasizes the added value of employee activity coordination and making their business activities transparent and auditable
PNMsoft business process management suites enable business stockholders to monitor all interactions between human, system and information resources and optimize behavior to get the most out of dynamic market events and improve business performance outcomes.
PNMsoft BPM software is a model-driven workflow environment that makes the model executable, while keeping the model as the central focus for future process changes. The graphical model is actually metadata that is translated by software into the executed process dynamically.
BPM software supports the complete business process improvement cycle, from definition to implementation, monitoring and analysis, and through ongoing optimization.
As a software infrastructure platform, PNMsoft BPM software enables business and IT professionals to work more collaboratively on all business process design, development, execution and enhancement activities and to close the execution gap between IT and the business.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
BPM - Business Process Management Software - Rules for Success
By PNMSoft
In its long history, a BPM software developer in the US has evolved from an exception processing vendor to a major player in business process management (BPM) software, one of the liveliest corners of the strong business-intelligence market. The BPM software company says the common thread through the company's development has been a focus on business rules and processes rather than the traditional IT concentration on data and how it's organized.
The BPM software developer discussed the need to make systems smarter and more able to make or support decisions.
What's the path from exception processing to business process management?
I'll give you some context. When I went to college and studied computers in the early '70s, I got involved with teaching computers to play chess, which at that time was considered a very hard thing to do. I became fascinated with what it would mean to teach a computer to take a complicated, human-associated activity like chess and be able to do it effectively in a way that you could not just rigorously program, that you needed to do by teaching the computer certain processes.
Then, when I graduated, I went into computers and began working in the late '70s for firms that did consulting mainly in the financial services industry. I was struck by how stupid the systems were, how they were just glorified recording systems. They really were about record keeping as opposed to being about the rules and processes of doing the business.
You say you wanted to build smarter systems, but didn't the technology of the early '80s limit your options?
The systems we had been building had been about recording information and presenting information; they weren't really about driving process and making decisions.
So I started as a BPM software developer, with the idea of being pragmatic about getting intelligence into systems by picking a couple of very specific problems to work on. We were limited by how fast computers were in the early and mid-'80s. We actually ran our first customers on a DEC VAX 780, which was about the size of [a conference table] and had a tenth of the power of [a laptop PC today]. It takes computer cycles to be smart. So we decided to go after exceptions, because exceptions involve smaller groups of people [and] typically involved only a percentage or two of the transactions, but were very complex and very high-value. So we went into the business of exception management because it represented an early way to do business process management and business rules without trying to boil the ocean.
How did you move beyond exception processing?
As we came into the '90s, machines had gotten a lot faster, and our knowledge had gotten better, and we understood it. So what Pega did in the early '90s was to start looking for other ways beyond exceptions to go after more mainstream processes. We began to do things around fulfillment. We started getting into call centers, and we started driving beyond financial services into health care. In the '90s, we took our traditionally exception-focused processes and approach to being much more of a whole business.
Where does that leave your BPM software company in relation to BPM software in 2004?
We think the design we came up with for the fourth generation of applications is pretty revolutionary. It takes the notion of enterprise rules and enterprise processes and puts it into the hands of the business user. So it's not just that systems can be smarter, but the business users can have more control, and the business users can do what we call build for change. It's an approach that uses very avant-garde technology around Java and distributed systems, with the underlying premise that the only way businesses take the next step is to afford business people greater control.
Why has it taken so long for companies to focus on the business processes and business rules?
The miracle of the '80s and '90s happened when companies' records became data and information. When we electronified them, we made them accessible. The whole way we think of the problem traditionally is around this electronification of data, which is incredibly important but is only half a loaf. The other half has to do with policies, which were still materially in people's heads. In the '80s, CPUs were scarce resources.
Now the number of CPU cycles that sit idle every day in a business outweigh those that are used by a factor of a thousand. That change, coupled with an enormous increase in power, makes it possible to do so much more. In order to be smart, the system has to be able to help operationalize the business process, not to just tell people what happened, but to help people actually do the work. Traditional systems make the user conform to the system. They tend to be organized around data. There's no help around trying to solve a business problem. It's organized around the data structures on the disk.
What's the approach to solving that problem?
The way to break this tension is to say we're not now trying to optimize every MIPS. That's less important in a world where 98% of the computing power sits idle.
We're going to let the systems themselves have information in them organized around rules that can actually do stuff for you. The only way that's going to work is to have things that are simple to use and simple to change. The model we have in mind is that IT is going to create this infrastructure for business users to do certain things on -- not everything, but certain things that they care about profoundly that IT doesn't care about.
How does that model work?
The breakthrough we've come up with technologically is that we've taken the rules of the business, and instead of having the rules of the business run in code, we treat the rules of the business as data. In our systems, the IT group creates the infrastructure, and we allow you to use Visio to sketch out your process, and then our engine asks you what sits behind each shape. We grab the answers, and we grab the Visio. We can run it down to the server so business users don't have to care about it. We dynamically compile it into Java as necessary, and then we run it.
If the business user changes it, then we're able to reflect those changes without having the IT guys make changes because the engine is actually running off the business-oriented definition of how you want to go through things, instead of the technically oriented definition of how the data is stored. This is the problem in a nutshell that we've been working on for more than 20 years.
Since PNMsoft's foundation in 1996 by experts in human workflow processes, we have focused on developing Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Automation solutions that are specially oriented towards business users.
From the start, we have applied our expertise and experience in BPM and BPI to build long-standing relationships with our customers and partners. Our products are complete projects, not shelfware, with the emphasis on reducing risk and enhancing incremental improvement. To this end, our activities extend far beyond the software itself, covering critical issues such as the speed of implementation, customization, risk reduction and fast ROI.
We believe that BPM can lead to greater business efficiencies and increased revenues when it involves everyone. Consequently we have developed the SEQUENCE family of BPM products for rapid, easy and effectively deployment across the entire business environment. A key factor in this philosophy has been our close integration with Microsoft and its products. Liaising frequently with Microsoft developers, we have ensured that new BPM users – from every culture and background - can leverage their Windows experience to rapidly become skilful in applying our BPM tools without the need for coding or programming.
Our growing penetration within world markets is testimony to this successful approach. Business users gain numerous advantages by using our automation technology and benefiting from our strong service orientation. They save over 60% in process development time, cut their administrative costs in half and gain greater control within their challenging multi-national business environments.
Profile
PMNsoft is a multi-national company with our marketing headquarters in the UK, our R&D centre in Israel and a network of business partners and associated offices around the globe. We have solid financial backing from Goldrock Capital, an institutionally-backed fund specializing in high-tech companies that show strong growth potential.
The executives leading PNMsoft's direction have a rich track record of expertise in computer science, information systems and workflow processes. Working in close unity with our employees and business partners, they have built a reputation for their responsiveness in providing intelligent, customized BPM solutions.
As an active player within the community, we contribute to Tmura, a charitable venture fund that supports local educational initiatives and youth opportunities. Alongside other 'green companies' we encourage our employees to be environmentally conscious, conserving resources and moving towards a paperless office.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Home Group Limited Chooses SEQUENCE - PNMsoft's BPM Software
The Programme is Estimated at GBP1 Million Pounds (US$2 Million) Plus Home Group Limited, UK's largest social house builder and management organisation has selected PNMsoft's BPMS and workflow product SEQUENCE as its Business Process Management and workflow platform for a multi million pound programme.
LONDON ----- Home Group's programme involves the cross-organisational deployment of SEQUENCE starting with internet and extranet systems and processes. The benefits include internal and external customer satisfaction as well as savings to the company's infrastructure
costs.
The Home Group Limited turnover is GBP230 million. The company owns 55,000 dwellings in 800 different sites, and is England's largest provider of social housing solutions for Local Regional Government.
Home Group's Project Manager Paul Kelly says "The SEQUENCE BPM solution will be at the heart of all future Web-based applications deployed by Home Group, and is considered to be one of the most strategic applications, and therefore investments, in terms of future IT/IS systems.
scalable platform."
Paul Sheridan, PNMsoft's VP Sales says "The objective of the deployment of SEQUENCE is to become the focal point of the company's internal and external process network. SEQUENCE will automate and manage a variety of business processes at Home Group, including handling residential customers, Local Regional Government customers, Human Resources and administrative affairs, and will reduce internal costs to the benefit of the Home Group's
operational bottom line."
About PNMsoft
PNMsoft offers flexible business-user oriented BPMS and workflow solutions. Focusing 10 years on Business Process Management, PNMsoft has achieved a position of subject matter expert in the BPM/Workflow product arena, and is a member of Microsoft's BPM Alliance. SEQUENCE is installed at over 250 companies worldwide.
PNMsoft's SEQUENCE facilitates rapid end user acceptance via the Microsoft UI, providing business users operational KPI and simulation capabilities as well as the automated management of business processes and organisational information. The system enables automated management of a multitude of business processes (Production, Development, Purchasing,
Finance, HR and more) while dramatically reducing time and resource
expenditures.
visit www.pnmsoft.com or call Paul Sheridan: +44-207-953-0262 (UK) or
+1-646-290-5063 (USA)
For more details on PNMsoft, or call Paul Sheridan: +44-207-953-0262 (UK) or
+1-646-290-5063 (USA)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Business Process Management One Step at a Time
Business Process Management One Step at a Time
by John Footen, 8.20.2008
I have written a great deal in my TV Technology columns about change. This is because it is so critical that TV organizations be prepared to change and change often going forward. As Winston Churchill said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
A business process is a sequence of tasks that extends across the entire facility. This example shows a process used to ingest new material. BUSINESS PROCESSWith the advent of process automation (not broadcast automation) or orchestration technologies, BPM has become very popular. BPM concerns itself with both the development of business processes and the links that those business processes have with the underlying technology. In some ways, it is a larger concept than SOA, which considers mainly the architecture and technology itself. BPM all comes down to the business process. An example process appears in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2: Continuous Process Improvement is critical to maintaining processes. Process or-chestration technology can help with that by versioning processes and managing their lifecycle. A facility can have many variations of a single pro-cess running at once. This is how it is in many facilities when change is implemented: one or two groups test out a new process or workflow while the bulk of the participants continue to use the existing, tried-and true process. Once the new methodology has been working successfully for a period of time, it can be rolled out to everyone. BPM and related technology also provide the benefits of increased visibility to those who do it. This visibility takes a variety of forms from a general increase in workflow awareness to specific, available products that track process status and statistics.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
OBG Consolidates It’s Practice Management Systems with PNMSoft BPM Software
Orchard Brayton Graham the top 50 IP Law Firm has announced that it had started a working relationship with PNMSoft the Workflow & BPM software platforms and solutions provider.
Since PNMsoft's foundation in 1996 by experts in human workflow processes, PNMSoft BPM software has focused on developing Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow Automation solutions that are specially oriented towards business users.
From the start, PNMSoft BPM software has applied our expertise and experience in BPM and BPI to build long-standing relationships with our customers and partners. PNMSoft BPM software products are complete projects, not shelfware, with the emphasis on reducing risk and enhancing incremental improvement. To this end, our activities extend far beyond the software itself, covering critical issues such as the speed of implementation, customization, risk reduction and fast ROI.
PNMSoft BPM software believes that BPM can lead to greater business efficiencies and increased revenues when it involves everyone. Consequently we have developed the SEQUENCE family of BPM products for rapid, easy and effectively deployment across the entire business environment. A key factor in this philosophy has been our close integration with Microsoft and its products. Liaising frequently with Microsoft developers, we have ensured that new BPM users – from every culture and background - can leverage their Windows experience to rapidly become skilful in applying our BPM tools without the need for coding or programming.
PNMSoft BPM software's growing penetration within world markets is testimony to this successful approach. Business users gain numerous advantages by using our automation technology and benefiting from our strong service orientation. They save over 60% in process development time, cut their administrative costs in half and gain greater control within their challenging multi-national business environments.
Profile
The executives leading PNMsoft's direction have a rich track record of expertise in computer science, information systems and workflow processes. Working in close unity with our employees and business partners, they have built a reputation for their responsiveness in providing intelligent, customized BPM solutions.
As an active player within the community, PNMSoft BPM software contributes to Tmura, a charitable venture fund that supports local educational initiatives and youth opportunities. Alongside other 'green companies' we encourage our employees to be environmentally conscious, conserving resources and moving towards a paperless office.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Twentysix New York, PNMsoft Join Forces
Leading Microsoft partners join forces to offer innovative BPM solutions to growing market in the Northeastern U.S.
Twentysix New York, a leading business and technology consultancy specializing in innovative enterprise integration, business intelligence and custom application solutions, and PNMsoft, developer and marketer of software products and professional services for business process management (BPM), announced a collaborative partnership to market and deploy PNMsoft’s flagship product, SEQUENCE in the Northeastern U.S.