The People-Ready Modern BPMS
Enabling Agile and
Process-Managed Enterprises
Maximizes Agility & SOA Values with Process-based
composition
Microsoft
BPA
Member

Growing List of Recognitions from Leading IT Analysts
BPM Cool Vendor
2007 (Apr 2007)
New!
Best Model-driven
BPMS for Process-
BPM Magic
based SOA
Quadrant 2007 -
Composition (Aug
Visionary
2008)
(Dec 2007)

Growing List of Recognitions from Leading IT Analysts
Forrester Human
Centric BPMS for
.NET 2007 - Strong
Performer
(Dec 2007)
New!
Microsoft Business
Process Alliance -
Butler Group
Charter Member
Technical Audit
(Sep 2008)

Who is Ascentn
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mountain View, California
Global Presence - Offices in N. America, APAC (Japan, China, Taiwan), and EMEA
(Belgium, UK, Spain)
Global Support Partner Network (20+ countries)
Founders with 20+ years strong domain experience in Process,
Framework & Enterprise Class Workflow Mgmt Solution in J2EE.
Pioneered .NET based Model-Driven BPMS in 2002
250+ customers span from Global 2000s to SMEs

ASCENTN IS AN LEADING PROVIDER
OF END-TO-END, COMPREHENSIVE
MODERN BPM SOLUTIONS
CONSIST OF PROVEN
METHODOLOGY, CONSULTING,
TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES.
Ascentn delivers the above with the most value-
driven, pragmatic approach to deliver enterprise-
level performance with mainstream pricing.

Ascentn’s Global Presence
Ascentn
EMEA
Ascentn
Ascentn Headquarters
Ascentn
Japan Mountain View, CA,
IBERIA
USA
Ascentn
China
Ascentn
Taiwan
Customer location
Distributor/Partners
Ascentn operations
Ascentn Technology Center

What makes something Agile?
Re-usable methods that can be applied to many areas
•
• Based on open standards and approach; not proprietary
Context and role driven and aware
•
• This allows tailoring to specific profiles and use pattern templates
dynamically
Self-adaptive
•
• When requirements change can be adjusted on-the-fly in real time
Fault tolerant and not brittle
•
• Ability to ignore non-critical interchange items and especially not to fail
for trivial reasons or slight version nuances
• Leveraging XML capabilities to make self-describing transactions possible
rather than static fixed legacy exchanges
Able to support new uses without extensive reprogramming
•
• Usage patterns set via external configuration allowing broad but
controlled uses

Think Big – More than BPMS technology
BPMS
BI
Explicit Graphical
SOA
Model-Driven
BPMS
Application
Application Composition
Modernization
Legacy
Organizational
Change

PICKING THE RIGHT WORKFLOW/BPM & MORE
DO YOU SEE FAR ENOUGH?
SharePoint Workflow Designer WF Based Solutions Model Driven BPMS
High
Workflow/BPM
AgilePoint
Solutions based on
Static Sequential
Process Based
or extending
Structured Automation
SharePoint/
Composition
Windows Workflow
Time & Cost
Business Agility - dynamic BPM
Some dynamics • Run-time Process Mgmt
• Visual & Governance • Process Migration
• Dynamic role-based activities • Dynamic Rollback
• Delegation & Re-assign • Dynamic Re-route
• Parallel & Dynamic Approval • Partial Rework
• etc. • Case Mgmt, Ad-hoc process
• etc.
Low
Scalability & Broadness of Functionality

Unpredictable
exception &
Model-driven Architecture change
requests.
Improve, adapt, migrate,
Design Execute
manage
as a as a
at run-time as a Model
Model Model
Iterative as a model
Unpredictable
Traditional Programming Architecture exception &
change requests.
Execute Improve, adapt, migrate,
Design as a
manage
as a Pre-bound
at run-time
Compiled
Model
Code

A Complete Process-based Integrated Composite Environment
in Visio
BizTalk/ESB MOSS/SharePoint InfoPath/Form
Server
Excel & MS Office
Active Directory
Project Server,
Exchange
Open XML
Web Service/
WSE/WCF
Win WF .NET/ASP.NET
MS Dynamics
Axapta, CRM, SAP,
PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc.

How AgilePoint Delivers Agility
An open, scalable, robust, and yet extremely affordable Composition
platform/framework for all
Business Process Management initiatives within your enterprise.
Deploy &
Model/Design
Execution
Process Model is the Application
Process-enabled Common Services & SOA Parts
Analyze &
Improvement
Business User Empowerment within an IT Controlled Eco-system
• Orchestrate People, Tasks, Systems and Strategy
• Management of end-to-end workflows
• Connects independent infrastructure software categories such as EAI, ECM, CRM, ERP,
Portal, Web Servers

How AgilePoint Delivers Agility
Enabling Process-based Composition of SOA
aligned Common Services
Create or improve adaptable workflows on-demand
•
Compose process-based, adaptive, loosely-coupled System-to-System
•
integration
Perform in-flight run-time adaptation & Migration
•
Evolve ad-hoc dynamic business processes without pre-defined course
•

Business
Business Entity
Processes
Service
Business Process with SOA

Multi-Layer Architecture with AgilePoint
Presentation Layer
Process Layer
Business Layer
Data Layer

AgilePoint Differentiations
Real World Agility
A superset of earlier generation process technology (EAI, WF, Doc Mgmt,
•
Rules)
Modeling and process execution is a common dynamic metadata driven
•
framework.
Transparent, explicit model is never compiled, but interpreted by the process
•
engine.
Always adaptable for exceptions, rework, reroute, rollback, step add/skip,
•
change data.
Puts people in control of the process within boundaries to assemble, share,
•
combine and reuse best processes and business services.

Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS Suite
Process modeling, simulation & deployment for execution
Based on Microsoft Visio
.NET, XML and Web services powered BPM Process Engine
 Direct code-free execution of AgilePoint processes
 NLB, Clustering
Full run-time control & creation of custom AgileParts
Based on MS Visual Studio
ASP.NET Web based digital dashboard
Task/User/Process monitoring, management & auditing
IT assets abstraction framework
Create process-aware reusable business activities & SOA

How AgilePoint Works - An SOA-aligned
Model-Driven BPMS
Web Service AgileParts
‘The Cloud’ Visual Studio
Process-enabled
SOA Parts and
Application Servers
Common Services
Metadata-driven
IT assets
Abstraction
Framework
BizTalk Orchestration
BizTalk Server
Legacy

How AgilePoint Works - An SOA-aligned
Model-Driven BPMS
ASP.NET
Automation
Collaboration
Orchestration
Smart Client
Model & Composition
Monitoring
Run-time Dash Board
Webservice, .Net Remoting
WCF Based Communication
Process Repository
XPDL
Model-driven BPM Engine
(Interpreter model)

Dynamic, model-driven Process Design in AgilePoint Envision Process design
in directly executable, with no code
OOTB Stencils
Link shapes together,
Link shapes together, forming
forming process logics
process logics
Configure activity properties,
just like writing a functional
specifications or technical
specification, but is now directly
executable
Drag && Drop shapes from
Drag Drop shapes from
stencils into canvas
stencils into canvas

Running process can be modified, re-assigned,
rollback, migrated, and etc, at runtime
Runtime process is exactly the
same as design time process,
taking the guessing out of the
collaboration equation. (Refer
back to previous slide)
Animated icons show real-
Animated icons show real-time
timeactivity status.
activity status.
Activity steps are logged for
auditing and compliance
purpose.

Dynamic, model-driven Budget Request
process scenario modification
Modification to process design to reflect
Modification to process design to reflect unpredictable
unpredictable business events/external
business events/external influences/regulation, and etc,
influences/regulation, and etc, without affecting
without affecting runtime processes. NO CODING
runtime processes. NO CODING
runtime processes

Model-Driven In-Flight Process Instance Migration
Process migration from existing version to
Process Migration.
newer version, or rollback to the previous
version, at runtime.

Repository of 100+ Built-In Process Parts and Extend With
Custom Process Parts
Partner
Partner ecosystem
ecosystem
has created
has created
hundreds
hundreds
ofof vertical focus
vertical focus
Process Parts
Process Parts

Enterprise Scale Performance, Security, Governance
& Administration from our console or yours via SOA

Key Takeaways – Improved 'How' and
Expanded 'Who'
Not just workflow, Think assemble full spectrum adaptive
•
workflows – from structured document approval to highly
dynamic end-to-end business processes
• Not just SOA, Think Process-based, Business-enabled SOA
• Not just code-based composite application, Think assemble
process-based composite application
• Business users participation not mandatory initially
AgilePoint provides organizations the headroom to deliver IT-enabled
•
delegation and empowerment to Business, when desired, within an IT-
controlled ecosystem
Speed and scope of adoption will vary from company to company
•
based on unique and industry characteristics

Microsoft and Ascentn AgilePoint
AgilePoint and the Microsoft suite provides a mainstream collaborative
process platform and specialized for each community of involvement.
Information Workers drive the process using Visio, Office, InfoPath,
•
SharePoint, etc.
IT provisions services, provides governance with Visual Studio, BizTalk,
•
and SOA Web services.
Composite application processes are rapidly created, managed,
•
shared and combined initially by IT but transitioned to business to
manage without on-going IT involvement.
The ability to safely innovate and collaborate allows the best
•
processes to emerge from within an IT controlled ecosystem.

Benefits of Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS
Well defined process architecture.
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Optimizes and hastens process provision & deployment.
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On demand process automation & re-automation.
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Code-free, XML powered, run-time dynamic binding.
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Adaptive SOA process-based integration.
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Empowers information workers.
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Relieves IT from routine custom coding.
•
Shortens IT’s response cycle.
•
Elevate object-oriented benefits for IT asset management.
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Technology independent operations.
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Effective enterprise knowledge management.
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Lower TCO
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Reuse of Microsoft knowledge and investment for BPM.
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“Think Big. Start Small. Scale Fast.”
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