Plug into BPM 2022

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Last Wednesday, September 21st, we had the honor of hosting a webinar with Pedro Robledo to answer to the question: what does BPM offer to business process developers?

Robledo began his speech by quoting Michael Porter: "Processes are the fundamental component of competitive advantage...The essence of strategy is to accomplish processes differently than our competitors", to emphasize the importance of processes and how to do things so that any organization can differentiate itself from the competition.

He asked the following question to the application developer who manages a specific process: if you are using a database engine to manage business data from an application, then why won't you use a BPM engine for orchestrating and managing operational data as well? The answer is that BPM technology must be used following Business Process Management, the management discipline focused on the continuous improvement of an organization's processes in alignment with business strategy.

He has offered 5 main reasons for the developer to use BPM:

1️⃣ Alignment of Business and IT through BPMN (Business Process Model And Notation), avoiding Boehm's Law: "the frequent errors during design are the more expensive the later they are removed". It is possible to eliminate design errors by using BPM for the conceptual, logical and physical modeling of a process.

2️⃣ Ability to orchestrate an end-to-end process without programming, managing all process instances, and storing all operational data. Furthermore, this allows to have a complete traceability and visibility of what has happened and is happening in real time in a process .

3️⃣ Capacity for digitalization and automation without limits. Either using RPA, physical Robotization, programming or automation of decision tables for the decision points of a process.

4️⃣ Capacity for adaptability, agility, integration (with applications, data, systems, machines, social networks...) and regulatory compliance. All without the need to reprogram the changes, and even make "on-the-fly" changes with the process in progress.

5️⃣ Process monitoring capabilities, process mining, qualitative and quantitative analysis of processes for improving a process.

In conclusion, the effort that a custom development requires to program the execution of a process does not make sense! It is necessary to use a BPMS that is capable of providing all the management of operational data, so we can only focus on programming very specific aspects, such as validations forms, creation of webservices, integrations with APIS...

For process applications, avoid doing it all from scratch and use the BPM discipline!

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FYI we held a session in Spanish as well.

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