Making Business Improvement Real: How People Power the Process

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BPM Portal enables people to:

Monitor business activity in real time through a Web portal interface.
Measure performance with pre-built scorecards
Analyze real-time data with numerous out-of-the-box reports
Drill down into data with a visual query tool or use complementary business intelligence tools for more detailed data analysis
Optimize processes by providing the visibility and metrics to make improvement decisions

Traditional development processes discourage people. Business executives and project teams are frustrated by complex vendor methodologies that rely on unwieldy information gathering approaches and provide little to no visibility on project progress. The result is inaccurately scoped process solutions and slow deployments.

Many leading enterprises, including hundreds in the Fortune 1000, are using Savvion BusinessManager today for business improvement. They are extending and adding more processes and applications based on Savvion, thus capitalizing on their initial BPM investments in Savvion. Savvion also has a growing number of system integration (SI) partners regional and vertical as well as international that can assist customers with Savvion-based projects and implementations.

Some SI partners have built solution templates for various industry processes based on best practices and domain expertise. These pre-packaged solutions can expedite the development and deployment of full solutions.

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