BP Logix Process Director is a web-based business process management software that allows business users to define, automate, manage and report on business processes without coding. It uses a graphical interface and predictive analytics to provide visibility into process times. Process Director integrates with existing systems and data sources, and can deploy processes faster and at lower costs than other BPM products.
Automate & Manage Key Business Processes with BP Logix Process Director
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PROCESS DIRECTOR
BP LOGIX PROCESS DIRECTOR: A TRUE BUSINESS SOLUTION
Companies and organizations throughout the US and around the world depend on BP Logix
Process Director to automate, manage, and improve their vital business processes. These industry
and government leaders have leveraged the power and simplicity of Process Director across an
array of key business functions, including:
• Human Resources
• Finance and Accounting
• Purchasing
• Information Technology
• Operations
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Process Director.
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
BP Logix Process Director is unique, web-based software that defines, automates, manages and
reports on business processes. Process Director shifts business process management (BPM) to
the direct control of business users, eliminating the need for further software development. While
electronic forms are built within Microsoft Word, processes, business rules and reports are defined
and managed using Process Director’s intuitive web-based graphical interface. As a result, no
coding is required.
BP Logix is also the first company to offer Predictive BPM™ (pBPM™). pBPM™ provides
business users with advanced notice of potential delays, leading to faster and more accurate
decision-making. Users can anticipate the impact of processes that are running long or late, as
well as any processes that are finishing ahead of their due dates. This enables business managers
to adjust the processes, resulting in greater agility — and greater control over the processes
themselves. pBPM makes it possible to look at business decisions with greater detail and within
tighter timeframes.
pBPM™ is based on BP Logix patent-pending Process Timeline™ technology. Unlike other BPM
solutions, Process Director enables users to take preemptive action. They can see, at a glance,
how long a process — and every activity within that process — is likely to take, based on the
original Process Timeline™ definition and the previous behavior of each activity. Combined with
traditional flowchart-based workflows, the Process Timeline™ offers a more powerful, business-
friendly solution for controlling key business processes.
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BP Logix Process Director
BP Logix Process Director also integrates seamlessly with your company’s existing data. Information
sources including databases, ERP and CRM systems, Web Services and Active Directory, as well as
spreadsheets and email, can be easily connected to Process Director. The data can then populate
forms, change calculations and govern the route a given process follows. In addition, Process Director
can also update data in external systems.
Finally, Process Director can be deployed in a fraction of the time — and at a fraction of the cost —
of other BPM products. Process Director fits into your existing environment, requires no software
development, and offers one-of-a-kind pBPM™ and Process Timeline™ technology. Process Director
solves business process management problems faster and less expensively than any other product.
PROCESS AND WORKFLOW AUTOMATION
BP Logix Process Director fuses traditional workflow automation,
using a simple drag-and-drop flowchart builder, with its unique
Process Timeline™ system, featuring an activity Gantt chart.
The Process Timeline™ system enables the process builder to
easily specify activity dependencies and conditions, planned
duration, and order. For running processes, Process Timeline™
gives the process owner complete control including the ability
to:
• Predict the completion time of any current or future activity
• Cancel an activity or process
• Reassign an activity to another user
• Restart an activity
Additional Features:
• 100% web-based graphical interface
• No programming required
• Rules-based business logic supporting
dynamic workflow routing
• Due date and duration management with escalation
• Advanced workflow processing (sub-workflows,
parallel processing, conditionals, reminders)
• SOX, HIPAA and 21 CFR part 11 compliant
• Fully auditable
• Electronic and digital signatures
BUSINESS RULES ENGINE
BP Logix Process Director business rules are re-useable objects defining the policies and rules that
govern how your processes should perform. Business rules exist independent of processes and other
objects, enabling you to delegate the management of those rules in accordance with the principle of
least privilege.
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Business Rules Features:
• Business users can modify rules easily without the need for IT involvement
• Rule definitions are reusable
• Business Rules are seamlessly integrated into eForms, process automation
and reporting functions
• Changes to business rules take effect immediately on running processes
• Provides a rules-based evaluation of activities and workflow tasks
• Allows users to define exceptions to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
ELECTRONIC FORMS
BP Logix Process Director offers the most versatile, flexible, and easily created eForms in the
industry. eForms are built using Microsoft Word® — no custom form builder is required. (eForms
can also be built using Microsoft Visual Studio®.) Based on rules that you configure, at various
stages in a workflow (or even during data input), individual fields or entire sections or tabs can be
made:
• Editable or read-only
• Hidden or viewable
• Empty or pre-populated
• Required or optional
• Fixed or dynamic
• Default or custom font, background
In addition, the Process Director eForms builder offers:
• A highly responsive, interactive user experience
• Seamless integration with sophisticated underlying document management capabilities
• Document attachments
• Automatically generated routing slips
• Fully auditable change log
Process Director’s simple, flexible eForms, enhanced by the
power of its business rules engine and Process Timeline™
technology, provide business users with a rich yet easy-
to-use solution for creating highly customizable forms and
processes ready to meet any business need.
REPORTING
Process Director Knowledge Views enable business users
to build flexible reports, graphs, and dashboards — without
requiring the assistance of IT. Knowledge Views are based
on data within or about eForms, processes, or attached
documents. Even e-discovery and audit responses are easier
as a result of the simple-to-use web-based Knowledge Views
interface.
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Knowledge Views features include:
• Real-time report integration with Microsoft Excel
• Report scheduling and distribution
• Task Lists, identifying any actions currently assigned to a given user
• Content Lists, offering administrators and process owners the ability to navigate through
definitions or instances of running processes
• “Items I Can Run” lists, providing end users with a single pane listing all eForms and other
objects they have permission to launch
• Pre-configured or user-selected filters
APPLICATION INTEGRATION
BP Logix Process Director readily integrates into your existing application environment. Process
Director objects can be viewed or launched through Web Services calls, and data within Process
Director can be accessed via Web Services or SQL, making integration with reporting tools such as
Crystal Reports® simple and intuitive.
Process definers can also take advantage of Process Director’s integration with Microsoft Word®
for eForm creation.
Additionally, Process Director can be fully integrated with your Active Directory environment,
removing any need for separate identity management. If you are using a Web Single Sign-On (SSO)
solution such as SiteMinder®, Process Director can integrate with that as well.
Process Director works seamlessly with scanning and document imaging software including
Kofax® and Kodak. Process Director can automatically launch a workflow on discovery of a newly-
scanned document, and take advantage of metadata provided by the document imaging software
to pre-populate eForm fields, drive business rules, and/or make process routing decisions.
BP Logix also provides a fully-functioning Software Development
Kit (SDK) for Process Director that enables complete application
control via Web Services. Not only can Process Director be directly
controlled by your locally developed business applications but, in
addition, most features and behaviors of Process Director can
be modified using the SDK, with no fear of obsolescence. Future
releases of Process Director are backward-compatible. Your SDK-
based customizations are always safe.
DATA INTEGRATION
A BPM solution is only as useful as its ability to leverage the
vast amounts of data driving business processes within a given
organization. Process Director makes it easy to access real-time
data from across business units, use that data to drive eForms and
processes, and then make updates to your data as appropriate.
Process Director features simple, web-based data source connection
objects. Once a particular data source is defined, it can be reused at
will by process creators who never need to know the details of how a
particular connection is made.
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Data sources for Process Director can include:
• Windows file systems
• ERP and CRM applications
• SQL-compliant databases
• Email
• Web Services
• Microsoft Excel®
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Server:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 or 2008 R2 (all service packs are supported,
in both 32- and 64-bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or higher, Oracle 10g or higher
(Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition comes pre-packaged with Process Director)
• .NET Framework 3.5
Client (eForm builders or Process Director administrators only):
• .NET Framework 2.0
• Internet Explorer 7 or above
Client (end user):
• Any recent web browser
Mobile:
• Any smartphone or mobile device with Internet connectivity and full browser capabilities
(Flash not required)
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