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Bring Your Own People Centric Business Processes
1. Bring your own people
centric business
processes
Tom Baeyens
CEO, Effektif
2. Us
• Tom Baeyens
– Open source BPM engines
– By developers, for
developers
– Founder and CEO Effektif
• Effektif
– Mission: Make BPM easier
– Separate experience for
business and developers
– Cloud
• Signavio
– Fast growing BPM provider
• BMW, Cisco, EMC,
Goldman Sachs, SAP, …
+ >500
– Best cloud based process
modeling solution
3. What is BPM?
• BPM makes it
easier and faster to
automate repetitive work
• Coordinate tasks
• Integrate with enterprise systems
4. How does it work
Process
A process is a template
for repetitive work
Example: Hire
5. How does it work
Process
start cases
Case
tasks stream
A process is a template
for repetitive work
Example: Hire
Example: Hire Jack
Example: Hire Joe
Example: Hire Mary
6. How does it work
Process
start cases
Case
tasks stream
A process is a template
for repetitive work
Example: Hire
publish
new
versions
Example: Hire Jack
Example: Hire Joe
Example: Hire Mary
7. Why BPM?
Transparancy of expectations
• Coordinate tasks
– Who should do what
– Get rid of miscommunications during handovers
• Right level of control
– Enforce compliance where needed
– Leave freedom where it can (*)
(*) Rare feature in BPM systems
8.
9. Why BPM?
Transparancy of what happened
• Audit trail
• Who did what and why
• Central place for this information
• Why did this go wrong?
• Imagine the alternative
• Learn and improve
10. Why BPM?
• Coordinate high volumes of tasks
– 5000 claims per day
– 300 people to handle them
• Monitor progress on a higher level
• Chase distracted employees with reminders
• Consistency
– Eg always deal with complaints in the same way
• Quality and SLAs
• Cheaper then custom coding
• …
11. What's changed?
• Cloud entered enterprise
– Cloud services / SaaS
– Bring Your Own Device
– Mobile
• Existing infrastructure doesn't go away
• Enterprise IT environments grow more complex
• Hybrid
• Effektif is built for this environment
12. What's changed?
• Cloud services focus on user experience
• User experience
1. Consumer apps
2. Enterprise software
3. BPM
• IFTTT
13. What's changed?
• Email overload
is common
• Cases create
transparancy
and reduces
email overload
14. What's changed?
• Cases are a new trend
– Enterprise social networks
(Yammer, Jive, Huddle, …)
– Asana
– Task collaboration apps
• Rich conversation
• Context
• Get people on the same page
15. Pain of BPM
• The diagrams are nice
• Very old promise
• Hello world runs OK
• Let's do this!
• D'OH… it becomes an IT project
16. IT Involvement
• Involving IT requires a lot of management
overhead
• Longer cycles
• Certain level of risk on the outcome
• Justified for bigger projects
• Effektif's focus is to empower managers
to skip IT involvement
17. What's next for BPM?
Business/I
T
alignment
• Big
projects
• Long
cycles
• Fast
• Cheap
Empowering
business users
• Easy
• Control