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BPM and Digital Transformation Solutions

By BP Logix on Sep 13, 2018 7:57:21 AM

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BPM and Digital Transformation Solutions Improving Business Outcomes

In a world of cloud computing and omnichannel digital access, enterprises differentiate themselves from competitors through time-to-market, agility, and increased engagement with customers. Reaching these goals demands that companies search for BPM and digital transformation solutions: embarking on a fraught digital journey, breaking down organizational silos and rationalizing disparate data sources to create a new framework for delivering and continuously improving digital solutions.

The goal of this digital journey is nothing less than the transformation of the enterprise itself: the way it works with customers, the way it measures its success—and ultimately, the way in which it thinks of itself.

The Process Director Digital Transformation Platform


The stakes are high, and the path is treacherous: don’t leave without the right tools. Process Director from BP Logix is a critical digital transformation solution. Process Director is a comprehensive, high-productivity, BPM-driven digital application development platform, providing you with everything you need to rapidly build and deliver custom, end-to-end digital applications—without programmers.

Process Director BPM and digital transformation solutions offers:

  • Graphical and menu-driven builders for every part of your application: forms, rules, workflows, data connections, etc.
  • A seamless combination of structured, unstructured, and case-management process patterns.
  • Flexible interaction styles, including web-based, email, and offline.
  • Freedom from complex data definitions, flowcharts, and other relics of a slower-moving era.
  • AI-Enabled business process management (predictive-BPM)
  • IoT connectors
  • Process Timeline™, the simplest to create and most efficient to execute process engine in the marketplace.
  • Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment.

Setting Out on Your Digital Journey

You can’t climb a mountain in worn-out shoes, and you can’t dominate in the digital age using tools that have barely changed since the turn of the millennium. Let’s face it: the decades of accumulated home-grown code—millions of lines of it—defies modernization. And the inflexibility and sheer volume of packaged applications—and the procurement, support, and training required for each—is unsustainable.

It’s time to change the plan: time to meet the digital challenge with a robust digital response.

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Process Director sets the pace for your digital transformation. Schedule a free demonstration of Process Director, and discover for yourself how this unique BPM software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our BPM and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM digital transformation
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BPM Software and Customer Service

By BP Logix on Aug 8, 2018 6:56:49 AM

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Much has been made of the customer journey, of an organization providing for their customers’ needs, that reaction is a failure of anticipation. Onboarding an intelligent BPM software engine is often the best solution, allowing businesses to create applications that update and streamline their own processes, to the benefit of all.

That being said, choosing the right solution is only part of the journey. The organization in question must also consider the customer service behind the BPM software— the training program provided, the spectrum of services offered, and the customer care they expect to receive. Only with these amenities can a business expect to truly exploit the utility of the BPM software they spent so long researching. It takes receiving the best care to fully provide the best care.

The BP Logix Difference


BP Logix’s training, implementation and support services all share a single goal: the translation of your vision into reality. The applications you create are the solutions to your organization’s pain points and ambitions, and it is our goal to facilitate this journey from concept to creation. The comprehensive customer service we offer is just one of the reasons some of the world’s leading organizations trust BP Logix in supporting their digital transformation initiatives.

Our approach is to establish a close partnership with our customer. Taking the time to understand your company, market, and culture, we work with you to create a strategy that optimizes how Process Director BPM software will address both immediate and longer-term goals.

Our structured training program ensures that you move into Process Director BPM software with confidence. Our customer service ensures that you have a voice and a place to turn. Our technical support takes care of any issues along the way. That is the BP Logix structure for success.

How BP Logix Empowers Customers

• Identifies customers’ specific market needs and business goals.
• Accelerates business processes through integration with legacy, cloud, and hybrid applications.
• Creates new solution-based opportunities by embracing mobile, IoT, and cloud platforms.
• Drives customers’ digital transformation efforts through Process Director’s AI-enhanced predictive capabilities.

“BP Logix is very customer centric – they provide excellent service overall (pre-sales, sales, customer service, and technical support). Every time we need something and we reach to them they always respond promptly and help us resolve whatever issue we are having.”
-Chief Information Officer in the Services Industry

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Process Director sets the pace for your BPM and digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM BPM software business process management
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The Evolution of Case Management Software Solutions

By BP Logix on Jul 27, 2018 2:35:23 PM

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By now we know that business situations ranging from customer interactions to transactional exchanges are hardly the linear creatures of the past, and now require context and ongoing coordination. Because of this, case management software solutions have surged to the forefront as a natural replacement to the linear processes of yore. Cases involve actions by many different people, both inside and outside of the organization, with every action, message, response and document generated becoming a part of the whole. That being said, case management software solutions still face some issues around coordination, communication and the actions threaded therein.

Process Director BPM Software's Milestone Feature


With Process Director’s new Milestones feature, the goal of actionable communication within adaptive case management software solutions has now been achieved. Not only does Process Director’s Milestones feature allow you to define context within cases, as well as comment and collaborate around milestone events or conditions, it also gives you the power to train the milestone as an event itself, with the ability to drive process. With this, Milestones serves as a bridge not only between employees within a case, but also from the technical-to-business side and onward toward streamlining all-round best practices.

This is why BP Logix Process Director is the perfect fit for BPM and case management software solutions:
• Built on a formalized BPM and case management framework
No code/low code BPM interface allows for adaptive case management solutions, such as workflows, to be created by the user rather than developers.
• Multimodal run-time patters combining sequential flow style with both event-driven and time-driven execution.
• Automatically adapt and respond to incoming events and ad-hoc changes.
• Milestones component allows actionable communications that can also drive process

As well, the patented business process automation software technology, Process Timeline™, will allow you to:
• Know exactly where you are in the state of the case.
• Know exactly how much longer it will take for the case to be completed.
• Have clear vision into the compensating steps or remedial actions that need to be launched at any given time.

Analyst Nathaniel Palmer has this to say about Process Director’s Process Timeline: “What continues to set Process Director apart from its BPM and Case Management software competitors is the Process Timeline™ — an executable process model that presents a Gantt chart-oriented notation. The Process Timeline captures time as a formal process dimension in ways not possible with other models.”

The Trifecta Of Process Director’s Case Management Software Solutions

With a solid case management framework in place, and Process Timeline acting as a major dimensional enhancement, Milestones then finishes the trifecta to allow actionable communication to reach its pinnacle— giving your business the opportunity for stream-lined clarity within adaptive case management.

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Process Director sets the pace for your BPM and digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM BPM software business process management case management
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Change Control Management With BPM Software Leads To Better Business

By BP Logix on Jul 17, 2018 11:18:00 AM

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A business is not a sentient thing.  It's dynamic and lives according to patterns. There are thousands of processes, decisions, actions and reactions happening every day in businesses, regardless of size. The result of all that activity is change. For businesses that take the right risks and make smart decisions, change control management translates to growth.

Every good manager knows that the ‘status quo’ is rarely a good thing. To be successful, companies need to embrace change.  Yet as humans we are generally apprehensive about change because, well, it requires change. Change means forsaking some level of comfort now for the hope of realizing something better in the future: a better bottom-line, a more efficient way of doing things, a less complicated environment. We all have experienced a level of apprehension when it comes to change − but the idea of change in the way we conduct our business brings about an even great level of apprehension.

Embracing Change

As business managers, we're expected to embrace − and manage − change in such a way that our businesses grow (and do so with the least amount of disruption.) Business process improvement (BPI) and business process management (BPM) can play an important role here. And this is especially true in IT, as often the most noticeable changes are the result of changes in technology which, in turn, bring about in business process improvements in the way people work.

In this context we are talking about something beyond the scope of "change management." We are actually talking about changes that result from change control. Change control management is about managing change and using processes to deliver on change management goals.

IT vs Change Control Management

IT departments are faced with both managing change and improving productivity. When information flow is manual and paper-based, IT has an opportunity to accomplish both goals.  There are many processes that are a part of the changes management wants to embrace that lend themselves to improving production and increasing productivity. Among them are:

    • Onboarding/offboarding and transferring employees
    • Ensuring access to applications and resources
    • Providing a secure approval process for processing requests
    • Coordinating requests across departments, facilities, vendors, and suppliers
    • Ordering and supplying software, hardware and equipment
    • Obsoleting or disposing of assets
    • Maintaining and accessing information for audits

The Solution is Automation


The solution to these challenges resides with automating change control management. Business process automation software provides a consistent method for routing and tracking the flow of IT requests and information. We’ve seen customers like the National Institute of Mental Health and Columbus Technical College implement IT automation solutions that sit on top of Process Director. The results reflect marked improvement with regard to time, cost and efficiency.

With Process Director BPM software, IT departments achieve:

  • Process consistency
  • Greater visibility into their processes
  • Elimination of errors and delays
  • Improvements in productivity (no lost or mishandled requests)

We have all experienced changes introduced as a result of actions that IT has taken. We hope that underlying these actions are well-defined processes. At BP Logix, we are a BPM company that believes that business process management (BPM) facilitates change and  that, at its core, BPM software is a change control management tool that can bring about positive change for the organization.

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Request a free demonstration of Process Director BPM platform and discover for yourself how this unique business process management software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our BPM and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

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Process Improvement: How BPM Can Improve Your Business

By BP Logix on Jul 12, 2018 11:19:24 AM

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What is Process Improvement?

If you are looking for a one-time fix, then process improvement is not going to cut the mustard. Rather than a magic bullet, process improvement is a systematic, ongoing, and iterative methodology. After each round of improvement, an analysis and reevaluation occur before the next round, the results of which should be improved quality in whatever area is being targeted.

BPM platforms have facilitated process improvement by enabling businesses to design applications and automate processes that would otherwise be less efficient, less timely and less customer-focused. The concept behind low-code/no-code rapid application development is to allow those who have knowledge of their company’s culture, best practices, and ambitions to take the reins in creating applications to benefit their department and, in turn, their organization. If process improvement is an ongoing experience, then it follows that ongoing changes must occur within the applications themselves. This necessity for change means the platform upon which these processes are being structured must be nimble and intuitive enough to facilitate constant improvement.

One Step Beyond Other BPM Platforms


Process Director has emerged from the pack as a leader in process improvement with its combination of rapid application technology, predictive analysis and its unique process workflow engine, Process Timeline™. Process Timeline frees you to express your journey in the most natural way possible: by listing the steps along the way. Any part of your process can respond to any event, deadline, action, or condition. Anything that can happen in parallel simply…happens. There are no more head-scratching design sessions spent trying to figure out which things can happen at the same time, and which cannot. Finally, Process Timeline makes collaboration between IT and the business transparent and easy.

Process Director: Predictive and Intuitive


In addition to these innovations, Process Director 5.0 augments Process Timeline with new BPM AI -capabilities. The powers that be say that if you are reacting, it is already too late. Process Director’s machine learning components augment Process Timeline’s predictive analysis, using virtually any kind of information—document length, repair history, even Big Data streams generated by Internet-enabled devices (IoT)—to predict process behavior.

The use cases for the convergence of AI and BPM technology in digital applications are massive:
• Sales Process Automation: Predict the likelihood of a lead closing and alter the process in real-time
• Contract Negotiation: Forecast the odds of approval and allocate resources appropriately
• Customer Guidance: Based on historical user data, provide recommended actions to solve customer issues
• Manufacturing: Predict production-halting mechanical issues before they occur
• Loan Applications: Based on the amount, credit score, and type of loan, skip approval steps or indicate additional documentation that will likely be required
• Academic Admissions: Based on an applicant’s GPA, location and degree for which they are applying, predict the likelihood of scholarship, acceptance, or denial

Schedule a Free Demo

Process Director sets the pace for your BPM and digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

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Automating Workflows: 3 Misconceptions To Avoid

By BP Logix on Jun 25, 2018 11:43:22 AM

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There may be some reluctance on the part of executives and stakeholders to implement workflow software for automating workflows within their organizations. That reluctance may be the result of either, 1) Existing habits and behaviors that are considered to be adequate, or 2) Fear. The former is actually more challenging to overcome from both an IT and business perspective, while the latter can often be addressed when an organization realizes how its business can become better, much better. It’s paradoxical to realize, too that fear is often what encourages people to hold on to old habits, thereby creating the mindset of, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Smart businesses are not fooled by that adage, however.

We are not suggesting that there is a tendency towards organizational status quo; it is easy to understand, however, that with the hope and promise of workflow automation software comes some stress relative to not knowing what the future might bring. The vision of a well-oiled organization making more informed and logical decisions that lead to optimal business outcomes seems quite achievable in a demo- or on a video. To arrive at that point, however, means   letting go of a lot of “trusted habits” and relying on something new and not as familiar. And it may be comforting to stick with what you know and how you currently work.

When an organization automates its workflows – and truly looks at how processes are currently being done within itself – there may be a period of both “reckoning” and discomfort. Ultimately, however, the benefits are huge. We have numbers to support these changes, and can point to customer successes. Before we can talk about the upside, however, we often find we need to address the misconceptions about automating workflows—and what it will and won't do.

3 Misconceptions of Workflow Automation

Some of the misconception given for postponing the move to a workflow automation environment for business process, app and project development look like these:

1. Automating workflows cannot replace the way we currently do business: Automating workflows may be disruptive at first, but you are probably dealing with daily disruptions in your current environment already, especially if you not have a centralized structure for your processes. If you are operating without an adequate workflow process, you   may already be unable to absorb the rapid pace required for your organization to adjust and adapt to changes in the market, your sector or as a result of what competitors may be doing. Using workflow methodology and a tool that supports your business processes will ultimately provide a more consistent environment for your business operations.

2. We cannot afford the time it takes to implement a new way of working: Beyond the benefits you will realize today, your business is built on investing for the future. While automating workflows requires implementing new software, investing in user training, and other organizational modifications, those upfront costs are necessary to ensure a more efficient and effective operating environment, long-term.

3. Our team doesn't have the skillset to do this:  If your team is accomplishing its ”work”, it is probably using some form of workflow. It may not be with a BPM software solution with the  workflow management software capabilities like Process Director, but there is some routing and decision-making that follows a prescribed order. So, yes, you already have workflow. You may need to learn a new way of identifying and prioritizing   after adopting a focused-on-workflow tool, but workflow is largely dependent on smart decision-making. If your team is being successful you are part of the way there! Using a tool like Process Director requires some change in habits, but is based on knowing how and when to move things, and in what direction. Your team has more skills than you may realize.

Change often brings with it some trepidation, however change control also becomes easier with a more visible path to success. The first step towards having a clear picture for automating workflows is recognizing how it could fit into your current business, then understanding how automating workflow could help your business in ways you may not have considered.

When we talk with you it is to learn about your concerns and fears, so we can understand your business. Armed with that information, we can provide a roadmap to using workflow effectively, and in a way that optimizes your existing workforce and habits.

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Process Director sets the pace for your BPM and digital transformation. Request a free  demonstration of Process Director and discover for yourself how this unique  BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or,  contact us to learn more about how our business process management software have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.
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Hospitality Software Solutions

By BP Logix on Jun 21, 2018 10:01:19 AM

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More than any sector, hospitality engages with the changing needs of modern, connected customers, partners and colleagues. Modern standards necessitate going beyond simply reacting. Working with a hospitality software equipped with BPM tools that allow for clear, comprehensive views of constantly evolving situations is now required to provide today’s expected level of service. The anticipation of needs, and prediction of upcoming issues is the current marker of success not only for customer case management, but also, and just as importantly, wider operational excellence.

To do this, the digitally transformative service organization requires an intuitive BPM workflow engine that pulls in robust hospitality software functionality, allowing for constant communication and clarity within the asynchronous nature of today’s workflow, as well as providing tools to anticipate occurrences.

Process Director BPM Platform As A Hospitality Software Solution

Process Director’s collaboration capabilities and predictive analysis enables you to quickly and easily build highly scalable, integrated cases driven by time, events, human decisions and more. With Process Director’s patented Process Timeline™ you also have the workflow and business process management tools to know exactly where you are in the state of your process. When issues do occur, Process Timeline can take automatic actions to remediate while providing you with the earliest possible notice within your digital applications.

Whether your challenges are in food and beverage, travel and tourism, or accommodations, BP Logix’s BPM platform Process Director gives you the functionality you need by combining hospitality software oriented applications with case management and predictive analytics, to align your initiative and make your vision a reality.

Process Director BPM and case management solutions include:

Integration: Fully integrated, out of the box, into the Process Director environment. No additional options to purchase; no additional components to learn.

Reporting: Sophisticated case-aware applications and reports.

Documents:  Document workflow management features include configurable case folders for fast access to all case-related processes, documents, and data.

Import: Automatic (batch) or drag-and-drop import of documents and data into appropriate case folders.

Time: Multimodal run-time patterns combining sequential flow style with event-driven, time-driven, and decision-driven execution.

No coding:  A low code / no code BPM platform designed from the ground up for the “citizen developer”: users do not need to be programmers to build rich, responsive digital case management applications.

Migration: Built-in BPM application integration and migration tools, enabling users to add case management solutions to existing Process Director BPM applications and workflow applications, quickly and easily.

Process Timeline: The easiest and fastest way to configure and deploy the predictive, alert processes that lie at the heart of your digital business.

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If you are in the market for robust hospitality software then request a free demonstration of Process Director BPM platform and discover for yourself how this unique business process management software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our public sector workflow solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

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Public Sector Workflow Management Solutions

By BP Logix on Jun 6, 2018 10:09:57 AM

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Public sector agencies stand before changing times – a public who is increasingly connected and require the same of their services, constantly shifting regulatory and compliance demands, and pressure to reduce costs while improving services. Whether your challenges are in cities, public healthcare, government services, security or justice— your agency’s digital transformation goals depend on engaging with public sector workflow that can translate your challenges into operational excellence.

From patient records to property assessment, Process Director’s public sector workflow management solution offers a unique Milestones component as well as predictive analysis making it a leader in adaptive case management by: incorporating the element of time into your cases, threading comments throughout actions and events to collaborate, and easily building highly scalable, integrated cases.

In the field, Process Director’s mobile inspection software empowers employees to take, tag, time-stamp, and location-stamp site photos as well as capture live customer signatures whether they are on or offline.

And of course BP Logix understands that security is a foremost priority when it comes to public sector workflow solutions. Use us in applications requiring FIPS approved standards and protocols for the protection of sensitive information. We also conform our security approach to the Microsoft Security Best Practices for Azure Cloud.

More on Process Director’s Public Sector Workflow Solutions


Utilize Process Director’s field service and inspection software for the enterprise and:

• Work online or offline
• Increase productivity of employees in the field
• Take, tag, time-stamp, and location-stamp site photos
• Eliminate data re-entry, transcription errors
• Capture live customer signatures
• Deploy for any use case: municipal, industrial, and more

Process Director is built on a formalized BPM and case management framework that enables:

• No code/low code interface allows for case management solutions, such as workflows, to be created by the user rather than developers.
• Multimodal run-time patters combining sequential flow style with both event-driven and time-driven execution.
• Automatically adapt and respond to incoming events and ad-hoc changes.

Process Director’s business process workflow automation software technology, Process Timeline™, will allow you to:

• Know exactly where you are in the state of the case.
• Know exactly how much longer it will take for the case to be completed.
• Have clear vision into the compensating steps or remedial actions that need to be launched at any given time.

Process Director is equipped with Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions and can assist your agency by:

• Tracking and reporting on document approval history
• Maintaining a consistent, documented process methodology
• Enforcing full accountability for all actions taken in the course of a process
• Reducing paper handling and manual routing, eliminating errors
• Preventing productivity problems due to lost or mishandled documents
• Providing easy-to-use and easy-to-access auditing functions that enable fast, accurate response to audit inquiries

Request a Free Demo

Request a free demonstration of Process Director BPM platform and discover for yourself how this unique business process management software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our public sector workflow solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: workflow BPM BPM software
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Low Code/No Code BPM: Fluidity, Function and Freedom

By BP Logix on May 20, 2018 9:33:47 AM

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The capacity of today’s deeper low code/no code BPM platforms is practically limitless, combining targeted applications with simplicity and speed of execution. Process Director is at the forefront of these platforms, with its highly scalable, highly intuitive structure. Our BPM platform enables those with knowledge of their own departmental or organizational pain points to take the reins in designing and launching solutions. The ease of building business process management solutions with Process Director’s low code/no code BPM structure translates not only to a better initial end application, but also to an application that can be changed, and re-changed, as the customer journey or business goals shift. This flexibility of purpose is a necessity for a digitally transformative business model.

While there are many low code/no code BPM suites on the market today, none of them combine the capacity and simplicity of Process Director. In an effort to offer the most competitive utility possible, other platform providers often get caught in the trap of pasting together their bells and whistles, resulting in a solution that, in the end, resembles Quasimodo. Process Director’s many workflow tools and features integrate organically into the overall structure, allowing the implementer to seamlessly incorporate robust utility into processes and applications without losing his or her way.

Another benefit of the low code/no code BPM environment is the autonomy it grants. Rather than being dependent on an already over-burdened IT department’s programmers, Process Director enables an application to be created quickly and accurately by citizen developers—often the very people who will be overseeing the application’s performance. Read below for more features and benefits that Process Director BPM implementation will provide:

Benefits of Process Director’s Low Code/No Code BPM Platform

  • Imagine your organization delivering its own rich digital applications, on any platform, before your competitors have laid down the first thousand lines of code.
  • Imagine saving millions on expensive technical staff, incompatible packaged applications, and maintenance of obsolete code.
  • Imagine providing straight-through processing and visibility all the way from your customers to your suppliers, while at all times guaranteeing compliance, accountability, and security.

Key Benefits of Process Director

  • Improved Efficiency: Improve process efficiency by reducing paper handling and manual routing; eliminate errors and improve the lifecycle of document, content and forms processing.
  • Easy Automation: Take advantage of Process Director’s easy graphical tools to transform new and existing processes into powerful automated workflows.
  • Enhanced Regulatory Compliance: Ensure a robust GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) posture using Process Director’s strong authentication, authorization, and audit capabilities.
  • Reduced Errors and Miscommunications: Email notifications, dashboards, and process intelligence reports ensure you stay on top of every step of every process.

Schedule a Free Demonstration

Schedule a free demonstration of Process Director BPM platform and discover for yourself how this unique business process management software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our BPM and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM BPM software
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AI and BPM: Deep Connections and Broad Implications

By BP Logix on Apr 27, 2018 10:43:16 AM

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In every industry, businesses today are being swept up in the growing wave that is digital transformation. At the forefront of this movement is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Combining AI and BPM allows brands to deeply engage with and analyze their data, and facilitate a more interconnected and intelligent business architecture. Once considered a luxury, the current necessity of utilizing AI analyzed datasets is now undeniable in the business process management industry.

AI and BPM Conceptions

Popular conceptions of AI and BPM range from relatively simple data classification and analysis all the way to Skynet. No matter your outlook, simulating human decision making / perceptive skills finds innumerable practical applications within the BPM sphere. To remain competitive, businesses must strive to deepen the impact of their collected information. AI brings essential tools to this necessary goal.

Attainable and Crucial

In a 2017 Gartner report (“Applying Artificial Intelligence to Drive Business Transformation…” –subscription required), analyst Whit Andrews drives focus toward the CIO’s critical role in guiding their organization’s AI readiness and progression.

Digital business is already disrupting organizations. AI and machine learning will add to the disruption. By 2020, AI technologies will be a top-five investment priority for more than 30% of CIOs. They should be preparing their organizations to get the optimal return on that investment. They should understand what they're getting, and what they're getting into, with AI if they and their organizations are to be successful. Then they can orient the organization's thinking and practices toward exploiting AI's capabilities.

Combining AI and BPM is currently within the grasp of a wide range of organizations due to advances in algorithmic development and compute power. Now machine learning (ML) driven data analysis can be made available to enterprise businesses as well as to organizations who might have even a few years ago self-eliminated their involvement.

Introducing Process Director – Your AI and BPM Solution

 


Process Director’s Process Timeline™ workflow engine has long been unique – easily modifiable, highly parallel, and time-aware. Couple this predictive analysis with case management context and Process Director’s low code rapid development environment and you have the ideal BPM platform structure to instill an element of predictability into your business processes.

 

In v5, Process Director builds upon this robust platform by introducing powerful new AI capabilities, which serves to expand our already revolutionary predictive BPM technology. This ML and AI integration uses information far beyond past user performance. Everything from dollar amounts to submission types to document size – any data related to the process can be used to predict duration, thereby providing the highest level of accuracy when determining process behavior. As the number of processes increase, this continuous prediction only becomes more accurate.

Process Director’s powerful combination of AI and BPM technology also goes well beyond simple business process automation to fully utilize the capabilities of predictive analysis. Our ML algorithms run against historical datasets, including internal or external data (e.g. databases IoT, services and more), to catalog predictive outcomes. Process Director's workflow engine provides advanced machine-learning to make predictions in real-time, and continuously improves within this churn of input data and recorded results. These outcomes will drive your Process Director digital applications, controlling everything from the end user experience to the process itself.

The use cases for the convergence of AI and BPM technology in digital applications are massive:

  • Sales Process Automation: Predict the likelihood of a lead closing and alter the process in real-time
  • Contract Negotiation: Forecast the odds of approval and allocate resources appropriately
  • Customer Guidance: Based on historical user data, provide recommended actions to solve customer issues
  • Manufacturing: Predict production-halting mechanical issues before they occur
  • Loan Applications: Based on the amount, credit score, and type of loan, skip approval steps or indicate additional documentation that will likely be required
  • Academic Admissions: Based on an applicant’s GPA, location and degree for which they are applying, predict the likelihood of scholarship, acceptance or denial

Give your organization the BPM tools to ride the ongoing waves of digital transformation with the intelligence of AI, the power of Process Timeline™, and the scalability of Process Director on your side.

Request a Free Demo

Request a free demonstration of Process Director, and discover for yourself how this unique BPM software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM business process management
2 min read

How Rapid Application Development Helps With Digital Transformation

By BP Logix on Apr 18, 2018 10:08:59 AM

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The need for digitally agile BPM platforms with highly subtle, rapid application development capabilities is no secret. Applications need to be built and then rebuilt based on the evolving desires of insistent customers and a constantly changing business terrain, with increasing levels of subtlety required. This is the central fact of modern business and woe be unto you if you fall behind the pace of digital transformation.

Rapid Application Development vs Speed and Nuance

There are two competing camps within the world of digital transformation and rapid application development: speed and nuance. Each is equally important and neither can be forfeited without serious cost. Many people believe that nuance is built on the back of complexity, which will then inevitably increase drag on the speed element.

It is true that many BPM platforms have, in an attempt to keep pace, tossed half-baked features into their architecture just so they can advertise having them in the product. Customer organizations are the real losers in this scenario. They will find themselves vainly trying to glean use from clunky functions that are poorly integrated, and from which neither speed nor nuance have been achieved. This is not functional rapid application development and is only masquerading as digital transformation.

I would argue that true nuance is built on the back of precision, which, from a product development standpoint, takes gallons of blood, sweat and tears. A violin is an example of nuance built from precision. To create a violin equal to the finest Stradivarius, the materials must be right, the vision accurate and the talent there. The end result is a magnificent instrument that helps you create amazing music. Now I am not comparing Process Director to a Stradivarius… except that I am. Oh yeah, I went there.

Digital Transformation with Process Director

Using our award-winning, highly scalable, rapid application development, low code BPM platform will show you the real power of combining speed with nuance built of precision. Let’s work together and make your applications sing!

Process Director BPM solutions offers:

  • Graphical and menu-driven builders for every part of your application: forms, rules, workflows, data connections, etc.
  • A seamless combination of structured, unstructured, and case-management process patterns.
  • Flexible interaction styles, including web-based, email, and offline.
  • Freedom from complex data definitions, flowcharts, and other relics of a slower-moving era.
  • Predictive BPM with AI and BPM combined
  • BPM and IoT data integration
  • Process Timeline™, the simplest to create and most efficient to execute process engine in the marketplace.
  • Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid development.

Request a Free Demo

Process Director sets the pace for your BPM and digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM digital transformation
2 min read

Process Director Industry Spotlight: Healthcare and Life Sciences

By BP Logix on Mar 28, 2018 11:15:27 AM

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With a shaking hand, you reach out to click on the first of a seemingly endless series of websites.  Thus begins your monumental task of searching for BPM solutions that will excel in the highly regulated and compliance-focused world of healthcare. A few of the security issues on your mind as you search for a healthcare BPM solution: patient confidentiality, ongoing regulatory requirements and risk tolerance. You gird your loins, preparing to embark on a journey of hundreds of false starts, dashed hopes and misrepresented platforms.

After months of searching, you finally discover a solution that will assuage your many Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) concerns. Mid-way through that sigh of relief, a flood of other concerns suddenly sweep into your mind. Will this platform support internal policies? Will it provide document workflow management that is intuitive and flexible? How scalable and deployable is the workflow management system? That sigh of relief dies half way out of your mouth, the burden of finding the perfect healthcare business process management solution still very present.

We get it. The solution challenges you face are non-negotiable, and you require a BPM platform that will step up to the plate on this series of necessary requirements. BP Logix’s Process Director is a BPM solution that will not only step up to the plate, but will knock it out of the park, allowing you to finally breathe easy.

Process Director BPM Platform

Process Director v5 from BP Logix is a unique, AI-enabled, low-code BPM / no-code BPM development platform for custom digital applications. Process Director’s patented technology drives enterprise digital transformation, offering features and benefits such as these:

  • Powerful and intelligent business process management (BPM) engine
  • Intuitive, no-programming-required graphical configuration of your entire application, from user interface to process behavior, data transformation, reporting, and more
  • Easy BPM and IoT data integration from data streams produced by the Internet of Things
  • Sophisticated suite of BPM and AI machine learning tools you can leverage in your own applications
  • Unified platform for all work styles, including case management as well as applications driven by time, events, rules, human decisions, or other factors
  • Numerous out-of-the-box application, data, and protocol connectors
  • Robust and comprehensive security and compliance, at every level

Through BP Logix healthcare workflow management and BPM healthcare solutions, healthcare organizations have been able to automate processes and deliver value. See how we’ve helped major healthcare organizations achieve greater business optimization and adopt business process best practices.

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Process Director sets the pace for your digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director, and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM
2 min read

What is iBPM (Intelligent Business Process Management)?

By BP Logix on Mar 23, 2018 10:04:55 AM

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Digital transformers, and the digital transformation movement, has evolved the roles and definitions of BPM products, and whether BPM is even an appropriate title to hang over its increasingly complex and wide-spread applications. The term iBPM, or intelligent business process management, is an attempt to encapsulate this trend.

What is iBPM?

Gartner has included iBPM as a unique ranking category since 2012. As they put it, “The intelligent business process management suite (iBPMS) market is the natural evolution of the earlier BPMS market, adding more capabilities for greater intelligence within business processes. Capabilities such as validation (process simulation, including "what if") and verification (logical compliance), optimization, and the ability to gain insight into process performance have been included in many BPMS offerings for several years. Intelligent business process management suites have added enhanced support for human collaboration such as integration with social media, mobile-enabled process tasks, streaming analytics and real-time decision management.”

It is interesting to note, however, that Gartner has demurred from including iBPM in its online IT glossary. Perhaps the term is here to stay, or perhaps it is merely a placeholder until a more long-lasting title sticks to the expansion of BPM’s new, overarching roles. It is a challenge to define something whose capacity is constantly growing, and whose end form has yet to be determined.

BP Logix has fully embraced the concept—if not necessarily the title—of iBPM, a vision that has resulted in Process Director being included within the Gartner Magic Quadrant in the intelligent business process management category for the past three years. Come discover what BPM, or an iBPMS, can be with Process Director.

Process Director BPM and digital transformation solutions offers:


• Graphical and menu-driven builders for every part of your application: forms, rules, workflows, data connections, etc.
• A seamless combination of structured, unstructured, and case-management process patterns.
• Flexible interaction styles, including web-based workflow, email, and offline.
• Freedom from complex data definitions, flowcharts, and other relics of a slower-moving era.
AI and business process management combined (predictive-BPM)
BPM and IoT connectors
• Process Timeline™, the simplest to create and most efficient to execute process engine in the marketplace.
Cloud BPM, on-premise BPM, or hybrid deployment.

Request a Free Demo

Process Director sets the pace for your digital transformation. Request a free demonstration of Process Director, and discover for yourself how this unique BPM platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our business process management software and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM
3 min read

Free BPM Software Demo of Process Director

By BP Logix on Mar 5, 2018 2:21:07 PM

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How BP Logix Works With Business and IT Users

There is a perception that some CIOs and IT Directors use Q1 to determine what they will buy in order to implement it by Q4. We know the reality, however, is that smart business people are always looking for BPM solutions to improve their businesses. Whether its Q1 or Q3, or any time before or after, they continue to seek to understand how to be more productive and efficient.

Change and flexibility are the basis for growth-minded organizations. And while change is inevitable, it cannot be totally disruptive. There are big changes (losing major customers, replacing key executives, market swings), and there are small changes (implementing a new accounting system, re-organizing functional teams). Some may be anticipated and, therefore, manageable, while ‘big change’ can impact the way you do business going forward. In either case, companies need to be prepared to deal with some level of disruption— yet keep the cadence of their business moving in the direction of their goals. Our free BPM software demonstration of Process Director keeps all of that in mind providing a customized experience based on your needs.

Put Thoughts of Business Change at Ease With a Free BPM Software Demo of Process Director


The ability to adapt to ‘business change’ is the backdrop for why we developed Process Director. BP Logix  customers certainly needed help managing their business processes, but they also needed to do so in an environment that adapted well to change— and, as a result, actually helped the company improve. You know what change means within your organization, but we would like to you to experience Process Director first-hand, to see how it aligns with your business needs. So how do we give you that experience?

When you sign up for a free BPM software demo of Process Director, we provide a customized experience. We view our demo as an opportunity to show what our product can do in the context of your organization. Our customers often tell us that our free BPM software demos are different than other vendors. They believe that we take time at the front end to understand your needs and environment — and to then show how Process Director might enable your business to be more efficient (and more adaptable to changing requirements).

An important element of Process Director that we like to show is its business process automation software technology with built-in predictive capabilities. We understand that business priorities can change rapidly and sometimes before you are completely prepared to deal with them. Process Director was designed to enable users to make ad hoc changes to meet changing demands. And, of course, these changes can be done by end-users, not programmers.

Our free BPM software demo provides insights as to how Process Director works —and gives you a feel for the ease with which you can make changes to address your organization’s specific needs. We can point to awards and validations from customers, yet understand that their story or situation may not be yours. What takes place in your group, division, and even across the entire company is unique.  And we appreciate that —which is why we customize our demo to make it reflect that uniqueness as much as we can. We often hear prospects ask, “Is it really that easy?” We would love for you to be the judge of that yourself.

Our free BPM software demo of Process Director is best way to experience it and truly understand the nature of what it can provide   — and to then map your challenges and needs to Process Director’s workflow management software functionality and capabilities. A list of what our product can do would take reams of paper.  Our free BPM software demo will allow you to see it live and will give you a realistic notion of where, and how, Process Director could fit in your department — or company. And, of course, it helps us to have a more substantive conversation about where you want to take your business.

Reviewing new products and evaluating vendors can be stressful and time-consuming. We’re not interested in the hard-sell; rather, we hope to begin a dialogue — a constructive conversation to learn about your business and your needs. We suspect you will see the BPM benefits in Process Director after you see it in action.

The right tool is always one that addresses your needs, but is capable of growing as you expand, change and innovate.

Schedule a Free Demo of Process Director

That is what your business does, and what we strive to deliver. Contact us to schedule your free BPM software demo of Process Director today!

Topics: Uncategorized workflow automation BP Logix BPM business process management
3 min read

Is Digital Business Right For Your Business?

By BP Logix on Feb 7, 2018 10:55:29 AM

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What is a Digital Business

Digital business, as an entity, merges digitally transformative technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and the practice of iBPM, with the physical world. It breaks down of the barriers between digital and material to foster an interplay between the two. This merging results in an optimal user experience from both the customer viewpoint and from an infrastructure/back-end perspective.

Digital business, as a practice, is the ability to create business processes utilizing the resources now available, including people. This resource-based method facilitates constant interaction not only between technologies, but between users and technologies. Technologies can be anything from an IoT device, to a workflow or machine learning (ML) algorithm. Users can be anyone from an individual customer, to a back-end administrator or any other employee. The practice of digitally structuring an organization is to enable implementers to build a structure that not only has these elements working independently, but also directs a focused interweaving of these components to the benefit of all. We like to call these implementers “digital transformers”.

Is Digital Business Transformation Right For You?

Short answer: Yes.

But I am an enterprise level CIO of an already hugely profitable company, are you saying that I need to change my business practices?

Yes.

But we are a small hospital in a rural area, not a part of some huge network – do we need to pay attention to it?

Yes.

But I am a cobbler who lives in a yurt atop a distant mountain. I trade my shoes in exchange for yak milk and millet bread. Surely it cannot benefit me?

Okay…you and I will talk later.

But for almost all companies, digital business is at the heart of effective digital transformation, and a necessary evolution that you must make to remain competitive in today’s market, as well as to take advantage of the huge opportunities available.

Process Director BPM Platform

Digital business, as an entity, merges digitally transformative technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and the practice of iBPM, with the physical world. It breaks down of the barriers between digital and material to foster an interplay between the two. This merging results in an optimal user experience from both the customer viewpoint and from an infrastructure/back-end perspective.

Digital business, as a practice, is the ability to create business processes utilizing the resources now available, including people. This resource-based method facilitates constant interaction not only between technologies, but between users and technologies. Technologies can be anything from an IoT device, to a workflow or machine learning (ML) algorithm. Users can be anyone from an individual customer, to a back-end administrator or any other employee. The practice of digitally structuring an organization is to enable implementers to build a structure that not only has these elements working independently, but also directs a focused interweaving of these components to the benefit of all. We like to call these implementers “digital transformers”.

BP Logix’s Process Director is the ideal BPM platform for the digital transformer. It combines an easily modifiable and intuitive interface with a highly scalable, low-code/no-code, rapid application development environment. Process Director’s BPM application and workflow integration allows integrate internal and external datasets easily ensures that you have access to countless data sources, enabling you to create your ideal digital structure. After that, all you have to do is sit back and wait for the yak milk and millet bread to roll in.

Request a Free Demo

Request a free demonstration of Process Director, and discover for yourself how this unique BPM software platform empowers you to innovate, respond to market demands, and delight your customers. Or, contact us to learn more about how our BPM and digital transformation solutions have helped our customers conquer their digital challenges.

Topics: BPM business process management
2 min read

BPM Products: BPM Software And Its Expanding Role

By BP Logix on Jan 25, 2018 1:25:29 PM

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The business process management software (BPM software) world is in the midst of an identity expansion. Just as brooding and acne-ridden teenagers stare into their future wondering what, out of a plethora of possibilities, they will ultimately become, so now does today’s BPM products.

The BPM industry has left the relatively slow changes of its childhood and now prepares to face the full-blown transitions of adolescence, though, hopefully, without as much door-slamming and bad poetry as an actual teen.

For years the parameters defining “business process management” have blurred as BPM’s complexities and capacities have matured. Today’s BPM products are used as everything from development platforms to analytical engines to on-demand report generators – and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Like a lanky teen who has outgrown his favorite Creed hoodie, BPM software is outgrowing its now constrictive niche (and arguably even the title itself) to serve this ever-expanding functionality.

These are good problems. The fact that it is imperative for the BPM product category to grow or even be remade in the service of an expanded digital mission bodes well for its overall outlook. Enterprises have discovered the merits of a digitally agile BPM solution to aid in their pursuit of engaging employees, managing suppliers, and providing a delightful customer journey. BPM products will always be an integral part of digital transformation…even if we change the name “BPM” to something else.

Whatever its name, there will always be a need for high productivity, low code / no code BPM products that can be used to accelerate a business’ digital transformation program and deploy robust, custom, end-to-end solutions.

Process Director BPM Software


But one BPM product does come to mind – Process Director. The time for your company to discover its true potential on your digital journal is nigh, with BP Logix’s unique and award-winning BPM platform.

Only Process Director BPM software offers:

• Graphical and menu-driven builders for every part of your application: forms, rules, workflows, data connections, etc.
• A seamless combination of structured, unstructured, and case-management process patterns.
• Flexible interaction styles, including web-based, email, and offline.
• Freedom from complex data definitions, flowcharts, and other relics of a slower-moving era.
• Process Timeline™, the simplest to create and most efficient to execute process engine in the marketplace.
• Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment.

Request a Demo

Ready to see how Process Director can help solve your business challenges? Schedule a demonstration today to get a customized in depth look at how Process Director can meet your enterprise application needs.

Topics: BPM
3 min read

Agile BPM (Agile Business Process Management) vs Custom Coding

By BP Logix on Dec 27, 2017 1:36:15 PM

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Business operations are constantly changing due to market conditions. With constant change, there is the need for businesses to continually improve the processes and workflows that power the organization in order to stay ahead of the competition. As a result, companies these days are relying on software to not only improve process efficiency but also to streamline business processes so they might capitalize on this competitive advantage. Having the speed and fluidity to absorb the necessary business operations changes that inevitably occur in a volatile economic climate will do nothing but impact the bottom line positively. When it comes to organizations adapting to change, is there a difference when they rely on custom coding their upcoming software solutions and systems versus using an agile BPM (agile business process management) software solution?

Custom Coding Solutions

In the pursuit of the ideal solution to fit their business requirements, many companies come to the erroneous conclusion that updating their current software with custom coding is the only answer. Only on the other side of their decision do they realize that every change, every clarification, and every idea sends them right back to square one of their system development life cycle (SDLC).

Enterprise IT has evolved into an expensive monument to the rigid over-specificity of its business parameters, and the mountains of custom code that remain aren’t flexible and can be incredibly resistant to change.

Agile BPM (Agile Business Process Management) Solutions

Agile BPM (agile business process management) solutions deliver results and value today, even when market conditions change. It puts business process management in the hands of business users by allowing them to have immediate access to BPM tools. This enables them to drive process automation, be approachable from different perspectives and launch short-term timelines that delivers fast ROI. These agile BPM solutions provide new ways of viewing reports and the status of workflows along with improving process-related visibility. It works for not only linear processes but also for all other business processes that don’t necessarily fit into the flowchart model.

Process Director BPM Software


Organizations should never be comfortable relying on custom coding to provide the flexibility and reusability offered by a low-code BPM/no-code BPM solution like Process Director. Process Director is an agile BPM solution that provides a common model and a rapid application development software that liberates your organization from expensive, single-use programming solutions and inflexible, single-purpose packaged applications. When you develop and deploy digital business solutions using Process Director, changes and enhancements are a snap—and you won’t need those rare and expensive programmers to make them.

No matter which way you cut it, custom coding with code rewrites will always be slow, costly, and hyper-specific—and in the era of digital transformation, cumbersome architecture will keep your organization from moving forward. Are you ready to see how an agile business process management software like Process Director can help your organization become more flexible to changing market conditions and business operations? Contact us or schedule a demonstration today to learn more.

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Topics: BPM BPM software business process management
2 min read

Digital Transformation Starts With Digital Transformers

By BP Logix on Dec 6, 2017 8:15:00 AM

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Digital transformation is the trending celebrity in the business process management (BPM) world, flanked by an entourage of terms: the sexy ‘Digital Supply Chain Management’, the enigmatic ‘Context Aware Mobile Experiences’ and of course who could forget that frequent attention hog, ‘Internet of Things’. They strut across our BPM landscape revered, nay, worshipped by beatific throngs.

Digital Transformers Are Agents of Change

Enamored as we are by the zeitgeist of digital transformation, it is easy to forget the poor schlub toiling away behind the curtain: the digital transformers. She is the CIO who finds herself installed in a company that still delivers documents via pneumatic tubes. He is the CEO of a burgeoning start-up, trying to build a competitive architecture for the future. Digital transformers are the men and women pushing against the grain of archaic technologies toward this better way. You might be this long-suffering individual, this oft overlooked crusader, staring into the faces of a befuddled board while trying to explain the need to eliminate wet signatures.

Rarely does digital transformation break down the walls of a company, Kool-Aid man style. It more often happens in inching (infuriatingly slow) steps, first one application, then another, then one more. The danger of this is at the end of the transition your organization is left with a poorly-fitted patchwork of solutions. Sure, your company has been digitally transformed—but the result is more Steve Buscemi than the hoped-for Christian Bale.

The Right BPM Platform For Digital Transformation

Whether you’re beginning from blessed scratch or dragging your company kicking and screaming into the digital age, the right BPM platform will be an indispensable guide on your digital journey, from the first e-signatures to always-on, customer-focused, end-to-end digital nirvana. In either situation potential is key. Your BPM platform must have the potential to grow, adapting to many roles and performing among an ensemble. It directs your digital production as a low-code/no-code, rapid application development environment—perfectly cast for the critical role it will play as your business expands.

For that your BPM solution needs to scale easily, and tessellate with legacy applications and systems of record, giving you the ability to deploy custom applications to solve your unique problems. For giggles and grins, let’s throw in a graphical interface that is intuitive and easy to use for non-programmers, such as your business or technical analysts. If digital transformers can achieve this and the business world will be your stage.

Contact us to learn how our award winning BPM platform, Process Director, can help you on your digital journey.

Topics: BP Logix BPM digital transformation