Why Business process management is Now?

Gartner Analyst Jim Sinur stated in 2002 that through 2007, business organizations will save as much as 10% of the cost of a business process by creating a current business model and optimizing
on cost within a current context (0.8 probability). Mr. Sinur projected that business organizations will save up to 20% of the cost of a business process by simulating alternative new business flows and implementing them in Business Process Management (0.7 probability).

According to Mr. Sinur, enterprises should begin to retool legacy applications into services to take advantage of explicitly defined processes. He projected that enterprises that continue to hard code all flow control or insist on manual process steps, and which do not incorporate Business Process Management’s benefits, will lose out on the agility and flexibility that is beginning to characterize 21st-century business.

As one ERP vendor said, “We have a problem. Our customers want processes in six weeks and we are taking 18 months to deliver them.” Can a Business Process Management platform help? It’s already happening in pioneering companies, and the value proposition for implementing a Business Process Management platform is so compelling that no company can afford to ignore this new development, especially given the cost of ERP upgrades and consolidationIn addition, Business Process Management systems will need to represent business processes in the computer system so they can be directly manipulated by business analysts – not programmers or development staff. Making it easier for non-IT professionals to manage their business processes without intervention from IT naturally makes some IT professionals nervous. You have to be certain in an auditable process that your transaction has integrity. Business Process Management systems vendors must scale this integrity while maintaining reliability in business processes designed, deployed and managed from the desktop.