Knowing these 10 things about BPM is not far from a successful deployment cloud

The benefits of business process management led by the stunning ROI are fascinating. But there are pros and cons, we should also face up to the problems, that is, it often fails. And BPM is the tool that can help to avoid failure, put it in the cloud environment, can help you overcome difficulties, successfully implement business process management. Cloud computing, the hottest technology in a few years, will lead us into the New world, start a new situation, or dramatically improve the current application technology.

Hosting software and applications in the cloud this trend has far-reaching implications for the adoption of BPM (business process Management). Today, many enterprises have accepted BPM technology, but accept does not mean that it can be quickly mastered it, so we have to face a problem is how to quickly load it and implement it. BPM provides a compelling set of business transitions and demonstrable ROI, but historically, more than 50% of BPM projects have not reached the desired level of acceptance. Fortunately, combining BPM and cloud models can address many traditional BPM challenges.

What is a cloud-compatible BPM suite?

Cloud-based implementations can benefit from three areas:
Economy (without infrastructure investment, pay by usage, increase/decrease required resources as needed)
Architecture (Public development environment and resources, and provides self-service configuration services)
Strategy (outsourcing of infrastructure and operations allows you to focus on the core business)

A BPM suite must have these benefits in order to be considered cloud compliant.

The benefits of cloud-based BPM

1. Minimum technical Limitations
No BPM tool satisfies all the needs of the enterprise. Because the choice of BPM technology may be different for different issues, technology choices can hinder overall BPM success. The economic advantage of the cloud and the easily configurable nature of the cloud model allow enterprises to test multiple technologies with minimal upfront investment. The cloud effectively removed technology lock-in, so the business of the entire enterprise could gain the benefits of BPM.

2. Time to market
BPM is primarily designed to create agility, so the lengthy technology implementation process is contrary to the purposes of BPM. Slow deployment is not only expensive, but also reduces the benefits of BPM, which can result in stakeholders refusing to invest in future projects. Putting BPM in the cloud can reduce the time it takes to prepare a BPM system from months to days or even minutes.

3. Collaboration within the enterprise and across the enterprise
BPM enables enterprises to collaborate within and between organizations. However, traditional local BPM implementations do not support external supply chains and value chain processes. In the local environment, departmental-level BPM implementations beat the End-to-end business process implementation with larger goals, embodied in strategically significant KPIs (key configured depicting) and operational excellence. Putting BPM in the cloud can create a borderless environment for geographically dispersed teams and complex processes. Cloud-based BPM facilitates collaboration across supply chains and improves process management across multiple environments.

4, Enterprise-class implementation
Most organizations are silos-structured, and their BPM investments are sector-level. In a traditional organization, there is no incentive for anyone to share the infrastructure and assets among the teams. To achieve enterprise-level process optimization, the cloud environment provides a centralized and publicly-owned BPM medium. Standardized, open architecture, interoperable reusable components and knowledge management become strategic needs.

5. Centralized control and management
With the implementation of enterprise-level BPM, the focus shifts to the implementation of management, standardization, optimization and scalability, and the benefits of BPM. To meet these needs, the business Process Capability Center (Business Process Competency Centre (BPCC)) provides a centralized repository-and hosts it in the cloud, making it easier to access (figure a). The ability to collaborate and share is further enhanced by the nature of shared infrastructure and public environment.

(The Business Process Capability Center in the cloud establishes a centralized best practice, management (governance), and repository of resource and asset management)

Five best practices for introducing cloud based BPM

If there are so many benefits to BPM in the cloud, why is it that no enterprise has adopted cloud-based BPM? Is it lack of knowledge to deal with BPM in the cloud, or doubt and fear of the unknown? Or is it due to an unproven ROI? Some of the steps described below outline some of the best practices for successful implementation of cloud-based BPM.

1. Documentation and Education
You can start with the documentation of the process model and the use of cloud-based modeling tools. Then you need to build awareness internally about BPM, the cloud, and the values they combine. Agree on common goals, then build initial models, reduce project risk, and reduce management needs. In addition, the cloud-based BPM model facilitates collaboration among process participants.

2. Establish an experimental project to show ROI
Before you rush into full deployment, it is a good idea to implement that part of the application that requires only basic workflows, forms, rules, and case management that does not require heavyweight integration and performance-intensive transaction automation. Use these small-scale implementations as pilot projects to demonstrate ROI and time to market for business stakeholders to improve.

3. Work as a team
It is possible that no one is responsible for the success of the BPM project. The adoption of collaborative processes involves a geographically diverse team and a complex value chain process that pushes KPIs (key configured depicting). Therefore, it is recommended to carry out the monitoring of business activities (Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)), to analyze KPI monitoring, to establish management model and to adopt standard.

4. Involve the integration team and infrastructure team
You cannot implement BPM in a vacuum. Integrating your systems with legacy applications, aggregating and composing applications, and composing Web services in the cloud are all important. Using cloud-based BPM can help you adjust the investment of various enterprise it. Creating a BPCC (Business Process Competency Center) in the cloud can help you reuse the assets of the process and the public management model.

5. Effectively reusing
Don't let your work effort be wasted. Build and package business applications, and then you can reconfigure and reuse them across geographies, across business categories, or across product lines. This not only makes BPM implementation and adoption easier, but also improves consistency, efficiency, and scalability. Figure B shows a step-by-step approach to introducing BPM in a less risky way in the cloud.

(Introduction of BPM in the Cloud classification method)

Summary
Cloud Computing offers a number of advantages to BPM adoption and addresses some of the key issues that hinder traditional BPM implementations. When you put BPM in the cloud, enterprise-class BPM and cross-organization process automation became a reality. Absolute ease of deployment, reuse, knowledge sharing, and collaboration are bound to facilitate a significant flow of innovation.