Business Process Management Software (BPMS) is software for designing, executing, monitoring and optimizing business processes. iBPMS is used to take manual process and transform them into automated digital processes that operate across systems and groups of people efficiently, repeatably, consistently, and in a way that lends itself to gathering metrics and continuous improvement.

The overall goal of BPM software is to make sure your organization’s processes are efficient, repeatable, auditable, reportable, and always available. The right iBPMS allows your company to produce more at a higher level of quality.  iBPMS enables and promotes digital transformation to achieve scalability without increased costs, and to enable speed and production while improving quality and transparency.  And business process management software can help you achieve these things in a fraction of the time possible using any other method.

BPM software can differ in capabilities and intuitiveness from vendor to vendor, but iBPM software typically contains fundamental elements: an intuitive way to describe processes graphically, various ways to integrate with and between enterprise software and/or SaaS applications, some (at least very basic) forms capabilities, and APIs that help businesses to integrate and communicate to and from the iBPM software.

Transforming your business with iBPMS starts with defining goals and functional requirements for your processes.  Then, of course, documenting the detailed design criteria: what do you need your user experience to be, what are the specific workflows (and the forms and artifacts that will be created, modified, or transformed by the workflow), who are the participants and how will they interact with the workflows, what are the dashboards and reports that users need to see?  Subsequently, you and your vendor will develop and test your process and what it produces and how it is reported. 

Business analysts are important to investigating and understanding and transforming manual process requirements into digital processes. And BPM consultants and developers are key to quickly translating those requirements into user interfaces, process workflows, forms, reports, dashboards, and pipelines to/from existing enterprise applications and SaaS applications.  Once the process is fully realized in your iBPMS implementations, then you test in - run it through it likely and unlikely scenarios to verify that your initial business analysis was thorough and your implementation is solid.  Then it is time to deploy your automated and integrated solution - your iBPMS. 

When your new fully integrated and automated processes start executing, they also start collecting execution data that can be analyzed and used to optimize the processes for greater efficiency, quality, and customer experience. 

From a high level perspective, the BPMS cyclic process break down into 4 parts:

• Business process modeling (BPM) - the design and modeling phase of the process by business analysts
• Implementation and Testing of Workflows, Forms, Integration, Reports, and Dashboards - implementation and ultimately deployment of automated processes
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) - ongoing analysis and optimization of integrated and automated processes
• Change and Improvement 

Workflow is only ONE part of business process management system (iBPMS).

What does FlowWright offer in terms of BPM Software?  FlowWright provides everything, and more, that you will need to automate your manual processes and transform them into fully-integrated digital processes. Based on the above diagram, here are the main modules within FlowWright that reflect the BPM life cycle:

• Design & Model - FlowWright gives business analysts and designers the graphical and intuitive tools needed to simplify digital process transformation. Use the modern HTML5 based graphical workflow designer to design and build digital processes.  Similar graphical and intuitive tools exist for building and integrating and deploying forms, decisions logic, reports, analytical tools, dashboards, SaaS tenants, and more.
• Develop, Test & Deploy - FlowWright makes it possible to build, test and deploy all in one environment while under control.
• Execute - the FlowWright workflow engine execute your processes. And, FlowWright provides 5 different engines to process different types of functionality within the product. Engines process workflows, forms, statistics, archival, events and more. 
• Analyze & Optimize - FlowWright offers a powerful set of business intelligence tools (including an API to access data from 3rd party tools.) External business intelligence tools can be also used.

Other business process management tools on the market separate the design of the process from the execution of that same process, but FlowWright BPM software simplifies this by giving you extra confidence: your design is what you execute: what you see if the your Visio-like process designer is what the workflow engine executes. 

BPM Process vs. BPM Workflow (BPM Software)

Workflow in iBPM is the end-to-end digitalized process that automates, integrates, and performs routing and execution based on the needs defined through business analysis. A BPM Workflow process is similar to its manual counterpart but it is faster, much more consistently executed, much better documented, and far more efficient. And, taken as a whole, a BPMS implementation includes processes, integrations, execution, optimizations, events, routing, forms, reports, and more - while also providing a way to handle its own lifecycle.

BPM can seem to involve complexity as transformation into the digital world occurs, but FlowWright simplifies this digital transformation. We already know that a BPM system collects more relevant data for a process than any other software application, and FlowWright does this exceptionally well.

BPM processes are typically driven by rules and events, so powerful rules management and execution is a must within any BPMS software product. FlowWright provides very powerful rules engine functionality through use of a graphical rules designer and decision tables. While originally BPMS started from a rules processing/rules engine perspective, today’s BPMS now includes workflow capabilities, forms, support for business objects, publish/subscribe message bus support, connectors to 3rd party systems, web-service connections, event handlers, REST and .NET APIs, and more.  Customer expectations for BPMS have changed and increased and BPMS industry leaders, like FlowWright, have responded. 

FlowWright provides an out of the box ESB - Enterprise Service Bus for processing events. Events are important in many ways, they perform actions/functionality when events are published to the ESB. FlowWright itself can generate and publish events to the event service bus - and it can also respond to and generate events on buses like RabbitMQ and MSMQ.

Organizations typically rely on several vital IT systems.  Critically, BPMS systems must be able to integrate these systems - whether internal on-premises systems or external SaaS web services. FlowWright orchestrates processes across systems. FlowWright provides loosely coupled and intelligently connected integrations between systems. FlowWright comes with a high performance .NET API and a REST based API for intuitive and reliable integrations. Access FlowWright using the .NET high performance API or use the REST API to access other platforms based on NodeJS, PHP or even Java. APIs are vitally important today because most systems are based on open architectures in order to support business process management.

FlowWright can be extended in several important ways. FlowWright is built without limitations and sometimes you may wish to extend FlowWright functionality to automate your process on your terms. FlowWright platform fully supports new custom steps, events, event handlers, form controls, UI widgets, and much more.

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What does BPMS suggest?

BPMS means Business Process Management Software. BPMS gives your organization the ability to enhance your organization through process automation through business analysis and intuitive integration and workflow implementation.  BPMS captures the rules that govern your business and makes them come alive to guide and serve your business while enhancing productivity and quality.