It is no surprise that corporate budgets are tight – from product development and travel expenses to general operational costs, businesses are under intense scrutiny to explain how various expenses will increase efficiency and productivity in their organization. If a cost cannot be justified in this sense, it is (not surprisingly) unlikely that it will be approved.

All of this points to a need for better understanding of business processes and automation to drive efficiency. In a recent article in Computer Business Review, writer Jason Stamper identified the top 10 most recession-proof IT sectors and placed integration and BPM at number seven on his list, noting its promise of enabling business process optimization (automation and analysis) is “fairly attractive in an economic downturn.”

Among the many lessons learned from the financial crisis, it is now more crucial than ever for IT departments to evaluate how they approach their business processes. BPM software can ensure that the organization is running as efficiently as possible – whether our economy is prospering or weathering a downturn.

Dave McCoy, vice president of BPM research for Gartner recently launched a blog that will focus on BPM and cost management. In fact, Gartner now has an internal research team that will make this a weekly research topic, an initiative that certainly attests to the growing interest in BPM investments this year!

We’ll make this a reoccurring topic as well to demonstrate how some of Metastorm’s customers have realized amazing cost benefits by automating processes in their organization – or even across their entire enterprise.

Have you seen efficiency and cost savings improvements in your organization through process automation? Do you agree that BPM spending may be somewhat recession proof?

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