“Through ongoing product innovation and a focus on customer success Metastorm has established itself as a market leader and we are fortunate to have a strong network of partners such as iOctane to deliver the Metastorm suite of products and services around the world,” stated Robin Martin, executive vice president of international operations for Metastorm.

“We are delighted to be able to sign this agreement with the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs.  It will allow government agencies to access the Metastorm process modeling, business architecture and process execution technology tools,” said Chris Symes, head of client engagement for iOctane.

Metastorm has a strong history of helping national and local governments increase efficiencies and improve citizen service through the use of business process management (BPM) software.  For example, the City of Norfolk, Virginia recently highlighted the results of its use of Metastorm BPM in an interview with CivSource. Additionally, in a customer video testimonial, the City of Richmond, Virginia discusses how they were able to successfully deploy Metastorm BPM solutions to structure and automate their business processes.  Metastorm BPM provides tools for users to design, develop, monitor, and change processes as their organization evolves.  

Government organizations worldwide have applied Metastorm BPM to business challenges such as compliance, operational efficiency, permit processing, citizen service, case management, grants management, logistics, defense, and disaster response. Many government organizations have turned to Metastorm BPM because it provides access to a wealth of information within organizations and has the ability to bridge silos across different agencies. These are just a few examples of how government agencies are leveraging Metastorm Enterprise software to develop optimal business processes.   Read more government success stories on BPM here.

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Operating on the Microsoft Windows Azure ™ platform, Metastorm M3 provides users with complete benefits of a private or public cloud, including scalability, performance, security, and elasticity.  Metastorm M3 is designed to be modeling for the masses, offering 11 different modeling types—goal, organization, capability, system, process/workflow, activity, rule, project, requirement, location and deliverable— from the Metastorm Enterprise software suite.  Additionally, Metastorm M3 provides 23 modeling objects and viewpoints, going beyond a traditional process model, to give users more comprehensive and holistic business improvements. 

Metastorm M3 empowers businesses by offering a cloud-based environment through which an unlimited number of users can easily improve their organizations using enterprise modeling and collaboration.  Business and IT users are given a rich, social environment in the Cloud where they are able to utilize social networking tools such as chat, whiteboard, model annotation, sharing, recording, and playback to design and implement business practices.  A distinguishing feature of Metastorm M3 is that it offers secure, cloud-based collaborative enterprise modeling for anyone, anywhere.  Metastorm M3 is an excellent tool for mass deployment because it offers built-in modeling guides and real-time help, requiring no prior knowledge of or training in enterprise modeling and no IT setup.  Additionally, its location in the Cloud allows users to gain unlimited access, opening a broader, global collaboration for businesses to achieve the most optimal results.

Metastorm M3 is designed to be used alone or with the Metastorm Enterprise software suite.  Any input, information and data captured in the Cloud is compatible with Metastorm’s enterprise architecture, business process analysis, business process management and integration products to ensure ongoing, shared visibility and the ability to incorporate user input enterprise-wide process improvements.

“Metastorm M3 is designed to go above and beyond any other tool available today to give our customers a distinct edge over their competition,” said Greg Carter, executive vice president of development and CTO of Metastorm.  “Leveraging our years of best practice experience in modeling, architecture strategy and process improvement, we have compiled a rich set of modeling and collaboration tools to empower users on a global scale to participate in business architecture and process definition activities that were once limited to a specific department or skill level.”

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Metastorm Smart Business Workspace uses widgets and mashups to deliver a role-based user experience across the entire Metastorm Enterprise software platform as well as other applications.  This single, role-driven interface is designed to meet the needs all types of roles within an organization.  Metastorm Smart Business Workspace transforms the power of Metastorm’s enterprise software by adding a layer of highly personalized user experience, resulting in rapid information access and a more productive, agile work environment regardless of the user’s organizational role. Using Metastorm Smart Business Workspace allows individuals to develop their own personal space, catering to their unique needs.  The software takes into account the user’s job description, skill set, knowledge base, key responsibilities and personal preferences to go beyond traditional interfaces to support the preferences of the user in a single, actionable environment.   

Metastorm Smart Business Workspace provides libraries of widgets related to Metastorm’s enterprise software for enterprise and business architecture, business process analysis, business process management and integration, giving users the ability to easily mash up and integrate data and applications.  The Metastorm Widget Designer enables non-technical users to quickly and easily design and create rich, entirely new and unique widgets and applications that include built-in transaction support, governance and advanced external integration capabilities. 

Metastorm Smart Business Workspace is designed to increase and promote social collaboration within the workplace, taking advantage of popular social networking capabilities to deliver meaningful business results.

“Metastorm Smart Business Workspace will open up a whole new world of insight and productivity for business users and give organizations the mechanism they need to finally leverage social collaboration technologies in a productive way within the enterprise,” said Kevin Haugh, vice president of product marketing and management at Metastorm.   “By delivering role-based, actionable workspaces that can be personalized by each user, Metastorm Smart Business Workspace will make it easier for users to leverage critical information and powerful features of the Metastorm Enterprise software suite – from enterprise modeling to business process analysis to daily process execution and participation – and to make better, faster business decisions.”

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During the conference we will be unveiling new product innovations. Two new products slated for release this year will give Metastorm customers the power to take modeling to the cloud, share and collaborate on goals, capabilities and processes, and empower users with a new workspace that will increase productivity and visibility, and leverage information and capabilities across the Metastorm Enterprise software suite.

An exciting new session has also been recently added! Clay Richardson, Senior Analyst with Forrester will present: “How Capability Maps Can Bridge the Gap Between EA & BPM – Disciplines and Technology”

We’ve assembled an impressive lineup of speakers from numerous industries who will share best practices, lessons learned and other insights that will prove invaluable to your Metastorm projects. Check out the conference’s loaded speaking agenda here!

A few speakers have written guest blog posts that you can also check out:

The Art of the Peel – Pat Bleasdale, Wilmington Trust

Planes, Planning and Process Improvement – Brian Chaney, Copper River IT

Solving Pharma’s 11 Billion Dollar Revenue Leakage Problem – Ethan Smith, Metastorm

Stay tuned, because there are more to come in the next few weeks as we approach the conference!

So if you haven’t already registered, why wait? You definitely don’t want to miss this year’s conference!

The Metastorm 2010 Global User Conference will take place May 18-19 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. We look forward to seeing everyone here in Baltimore for another fantastic conference filled with interaction, insight, ideas and inspiration!

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The lives of many organizations have similar, humble beginnings.

But in order to survive and thrive in their environments both the caterpillar and the business have to grow – and for both parties, growing is essentially an input, output scenario.

For the business to grow, it needs to collect resources – people, materials, technology, infrastructure, etc. in order to produce its deliverables or provide its services, which will ultimately enable it to generate profits and expand.

The caterpillar on the other hand, needs to consume food to provide its body with energy - this enables the caterpillar to utilize food resources to increase its size.

Undoubtedly both the caterpillar and the business need resources to grow. But just like the caterpillar in a much beloved and well known children’s book, a business can become fat as it consumes more resources than necessary – or even the wrong resources altogether. Imagine your organization eating through 5 million sheets of paper, 40 thousand dollars in fines from a compliance violation, 150 hours of employee productivity because of duplication of effort, and so on.

Luckily for the caterpillar, it instinctively builds a cocoon that transforms it into a beautiful butterfly – eliminating its excess bulk, and allowing it to soar to new levels of prosperity.

But what’s a business to do? For businesses, overconsumption and poor management is a major problem that can lead to significant losses. Being too fat can be fatal to an enterprise – causing it to waste the profits that it needs to survive and thrive, and to become so sluggish that it is unable to effectively compete in the marketplace.

Unfortunately, no organization can wrap itself up in a cocoon and triumphantly emerge months later as a new and improved version of its former self. But if it were possible, I think it’s a safe bet that many would retract for a brief period and allow such a change to happen.

But there are technologies that can act like a cocoon to facilitate business transformation – and, even better than a cocoon, these technologies enable organizations to realize real, measurable improvements without ever requiring them to pull away from the marketplace. This means organizations can serve their customers and drive results while transforming to be Leaner, more agile and competitive than ever before.

For example, with Metastorm Enterprise, Metastorm’s integrated software suite of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA), organizations can achieve business transformation in 3 easy steps:

Step 1: SEE the breadth of the enterprise including goals, resources and key process relationships with Metastorm ProVision®.

Step 2: THINK through and analyze possible organizational changes and process improvements with Metastorm ProVision for BPA – ensuring that the right changes are made.

Step 3: DO the right things with Metastorm BPM® – and quickly and cost effectively realize desired changes and results.

With Metastorm’s “See. Think. Do” capabilities, organizations can identify time and resource wasters, test and implement improvements, and then execute new processes to metamorphose from fat and sluggish to harmonious, well-balanced and resource efficient – enabling them to soar above the competition and achieve unprecedented levels of success.

With Metastorm Enterprise, business transformation truly is elementary – after all, it’s as easy as counting to 3!

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In Ovum’s report, “Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Process Management Vendor (Competitor Focus),” Metastorm is placed in the elite, “shortlist” category – “the vanguard of the BPM market” – because it “combine[s] excellence in core technologies with a clear articulated approach to BPM.”

Metastorm also receives accolades for its user satisfaction rating. The report states that “the best indicator” of Metastorm’s success “is its excellent performance in the end-user sentiment survey. Metastorm has achieved the highest overall user sentiment assessment score.” These results are similar to the findings of another recent report – industry analyst firm Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools,” in which Metastorm receives one of the highest rankings in overall customer satisfaction.

In Ovum’s report, Metastorm is also featured among the market leaders in nearly all other assessment categories, has one of the highest overall technology assessment scores, and receives a nod for its “proven process integration layer” that serves customers “regardless of their technology landscape.”

According to the report, “the results of this study clearly demonstrate that Metastorm has the ability to compete at the very top-end of the BPM market.”

Our other recent credentials – being placed in the “Leaders” quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools” report, as well as being named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management and eWeek’s Products to Watch, March, 2010 lists – have also strengthened Metastorm’s position as a top tier BPMS vendor, and a top competitor in the BPM market.

Still, the greatest testament to the power of Metastorm’s best-of-breed technology offering, and holistic approach to end-to-end process improvement is the overwhelming success of our customers. Ovum’s report comments that, “Clearly, [the] over 150 customer success stories published by Metastorm are ringing true.”

We’d like to second that. With these and countless other customers realizing significant ROI each day, Metastorm delivers real, measurable results to organizations all over the world. And that’s the most important credential of them all.

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The podcast, “The USAF, Six Sigma, and BPM,” discusses how the US Air Force utilized Metastorm ProVision® and Metastorm BPM® to achieve a 200% increase in automation to gain more efficiency, productivity, and control.

According to Chaney, the project began when the Department of Defense (DoD) mandated that, in order for DoD organizations to continue receiving funding, their IT investments had to include an Enterprise Architecture (EA) tool.

As part of its new EA initiative, the US Air Force wanted to identify how its IT infrastructure was supporting its business processes, and how well the processes were performing in the supported environments. To meet the goals of an existing initiative, Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century (AFSO21), which aims to streamline processes and optimize resource consumption – the US Air Force also wanted to “Lean out” its business processes to do more with less.

Listen to this podcast and read this customer success story to learn how the team used Metastorm ProVision to see and analyze its processes, and to identify time wasters and other areas of inefficiency, how it subsequently used Metastorm BPM to execute the Leaner, more agile processes across the entire enterprise, and how it utilized the power of the Metastorm Enterprise software suite to realize greater efficiency, and meet the goals of AFSO21.

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 Gartner Prediction: “By 2014, 40% of business managers and knowledge workers in Global 2000 enterprises will use comprehensive business process models to support their daily work, up from 6% in 2009.”

 Not only do we see this as being true, we see that business process models as we know them today are just the tip of the iceberg.

 Recently we were working on a visualization tool and new UI proof of concept that took information from our process integration engine and used a map of the continental US to display process activity meshed with business metrics (dollar values in this case) and system status information. We started talking about other forms of visualization and which models we should use – I thought the map was a bit passé. But deeper thinkers pointed out that the map is one of the oldest forms of models, and one that is almost universally understood – thus it is a great way to add context to information. I had not really thought of a map as model, but it surely is, and a very effective model at that.

 For example, in San Francisco you receive a call from the manager at the account servicing center in Richmond who is very concerned because there are 20 inches of snow due at the same time that mid-month renewals are being processed. From your portal do you open up a bunch of spreadsheets to try and figure out the possible effects? Nope.

 Instead, you locate the Richmond office in your locations and facilities model, drill into the different processes that run at that office – renewals, closings, automatic billings. You quickly navigate to other locations that also provide those services – in Phoenix – and begin to formulate a plan to relocate the work to another site. From the process you can jump to a systems model that shows all the supporting services. Are they available in Phoenix? Yes. Suddenly those 20 inches of snow are not a huge deal.

 As we uncover more and more of the modeling ‘iceberg’ I think we’ll discover that the possibilities for modeling technology are endless. So far the BPM community has failed to really tap into its true potential, but we are getting there. However, while reading Gartner’s prediction it struck me once again how narrow and limiting the view of models is today.

 At Metastorm we are broadening this view, and would instead say that by 2014 managers will not be using just process models, but all different kinds of models as well– information flows, communication models, strategic planning models, etc., to understand and control processes and to capture, plan, and execute on a daily basis – and we’re working hard to make this a reality.

 Gartner Prediction: By 2013, dynamic BPM will be an imperative for companies seeking process efficiencies in increasingly chaotic environments.

I think dynamic BPM is already very much here. Almost every process we see deployed has a significant dynamic aspect to it. We are not talking about automation, but allowing the managers and process owners to change the process in flight, adjusting operating parameters, building in new process elements, and creating collaboration groups on the fly.

Of course Metastorm is both a modeling and an execution company and we feel that the key to making all of this work without creating ‘chaos across the organization’ is to express all of the variables in these dynamic processes – the people, the capabilities, the integrations, the goals and measurements – as models. And for that matter, also making adjustments using models – simply seeing a chart or a report with someone’s workload is different than being able to see where a person sits in the organization, and to be able to drill down, connect to and see all the processes they participate in and what goals rely on their performance – enabling much more informed action, whether that action is taken by a person or by invoking a pre-defined business rule.

Gartner’s position is a valid assumption and is reflected in the plans of Metastorm and other BPM providers. Key to the developments and application of trendy discovery, social software, and mobile applications is making sure we focus on making these technologies relevant while ensuring that they help organize the chaos, not exacerbate it.

Take social software for example – how do we make this relevant to solving process problems?

We use the key attributes of social software – presence, capturing of interests (or skills and competencies), etc. –and then leverage these to accomplish skills-based routing, dynamically organizing communities of interest to solve problems, and assigning work to people online and in real time.

By incorporating our evolving attributes we can allow processes to adjust—dynamically generating dashboards and watch lists based on interest, or automatically suggesting who to talk to if there is a question at any step in a process. This work environment is reflective of the way people are communicating with each other today. In order for businesses to be successful, they need to adapt to the way systems and processes communicate with and through the employee – not vice versa.

After all, let’s face it – the drivers that caused BPM to be born – sluggish and inflexible response by traditional development approaches, too slow time to market, etc. – all still exist. The business will always be pushing for new areas of flexibility and self-modification to meet dynamic requirements, and communication will continually evolve and change – and since BPM is dynamic in nature, it is the perfect tool to respond and adapt to all of these things.

The way we define Business Process Management is expanding every day. Today other technologies like Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) are becoming synonymous with process management, and are an important part of any Business Process Management Suite (BPMS). Social networking and other internet capabilities are also becoming important to the holistic management of business processes. Metastorm is committed to being a leader in the BPMS space, and is excited to be at the forefront of these changes and trends as we discover more and more the awesome potential that these technologies really have to offer.

Learn more about Metastorm Enterprise, Metastorm’s integrated software suite of Business Process Management, Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture here.

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The modern day Lean does not have to be about formal methodologies – the new Lean is about productivity, efficiency and competitive advantage. It is about doing business smarter and faster by squeezing out underutilized resources and eliminating time wasters. The new Lean applies to every industry, and it is becoming a top agenda item for CIOs everywhere. Metastorm’s Lean webinar series is designed to empower organizations to “get Lean” with enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA) and business process management (BPM) to help cut costs, improve productivity and lower risk in smart ways that will enable them to gain a competitive advantage now, and to accelerate success in the future.

The following are featured in Metastorm’s Lean webinar series:

Lean Enterprise Architecture: EA Can Be Fast & Agile
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Session1: 6:00am PT/9:00am ET/2:00pm GMT
Session 2: 10:00am PT/ 1:00pm ET/ 6:00pm GMT

In the “new normal” of today’s operating environment, it is more important than ever to make the most of your enterprise resources. Well targeted enterprise architecture initiatives can help you achieve more, better and faster, with the same or fewer resources. Productivity, efficiency, optimal use of assets both in-house and in the “cloud” – that’s what Lean EA can deliver. Learn from a hands-on EA and BPM practitioner who has successfully implemented Lean EA techniques tied directly into business process management for fast, practical results. To register, visit http://www.metastorm.com/news/webinars.asp

Business Process Analysis: Identify & Eliminate the Fat in Your Processes
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Session1: 6:00am PT/9:00am ET/2:00pm GMT
Session 2: 10:00am PT/ 1:00pm ET/ 6:00pm GMT

To get Lean, you need to know where the fat is, and therefore where you have opportunities to be more efficient and productive. But where do you start when your organization is comprised of literally hundreds or thousands of business processes? Business process analysis software provides built-in expertise and algorithms to zero in on the best and worst areas of your processes and simulate changes that will deliver better results – no PhD required! This webinar will explore how packaged BPA software can give you the insight you need to make effective process changes that take into account all dependencies and a variety of objectives – including cost, time and profit. To register, visit http://www.metastorm.com/news/webinars.asp

Getting Leaner Faster with Business Process Management
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Session1: 6:00am PT/9:00am ET/2:00pm GMT
Session 2: 10:00am PT/ 1:00pm ET/ 6:00pm GMT
BPM has been hailed as one of the best and fastest ways to operate in a leaner, more optimized manner. But a critical question is what BPM approaches can allow you to get lean the fastest, with the greatest certainty and with the largest business results? Get advice from a hands-on CMMI, Six Sigma and Lean practitioner who has successfully implemented roundtrip process improvements complete with metrics and significant, quantifiable benefits to productivity and efficiency. To register, visit http://www.metastorm.com/news/webinars.asp

Lean to the Power of 3
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Session1: 6:00am PT/9:00am ET/2:00pm GMT
Session 2: 10:00am PT/ 1:00pm ET/ 6:00pm GMT
Are your goals out of sync with reality? Is the business out of sync with IT? Failing to align strategy with execution and difficulty aligning business and IT are two of the most fundamental issues standing in the way of optimizing organizational productivity, efficiency and performance. To truly “get Lean,” you need greater visibility into and collaboration on what matters most. Learn from industry experts who have successfully used EA, BPA and BPM software together to bridge these gaps – with significant improvements in the business. To register, visit http://www.metastorm.com/news/webinars.asp

For more Lean resources, visit http://www.metastorm.com/solutions/horizontal/lean-solutions.asp

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Of course this new, unwavering display of willpower and drive usually lasts until around March when gym attendance slowly trickles back to its normal, pre-resolution-season numbers. But there are always those dedicated few who come out on top – leaner, more agile and energized, and of course, healthier and more resilient than ever before.

A recent Financial Times post outlines ways that we can increase our chances of being successful with our fitness resolutions – one being to enlist a personal trainer. Another important element to a successful resolution season (and beyond!) is of course, to evaluate the way we treat our bodies – Are we drinking enough water? Are we wasting calories on poor food choices? Are we getting enough sleep, or spending too much time watching television?

This really comes down to one essential question— Are we allocating our time and resources to ensure that our bodies are running at optimal efficiency?

A few months ago I explained that businesses are just like the human body – living, growing and continually changing. So shouldn’t you pay attention to how you allocate your time and resources within your organization? Just like your body, your business can also get Lean to become more agile and productive, and healthier and more resilient than ever!

Set a fitness resolution for your business in the New Year, and let us be your personal trainer! You can fast track your efforts to get Lean in 2010 with help from Metastorm’s Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management software. Using Metastorm as your platform for getting Lean will enable you to:

• Analyze your operations and infrastructure to identify underutilized resources,
• Run process scenarios to figure out how to accelerate cycle times and improve results,
• Identify where time is wasted and improve on those business processes,
• Automate processes to increase efficiency, save money, and become more agile – do more with less, and
• Give your employees a toolset that will make them more productive from Day One.

With Metastorm’s help your organization can lose the ‘fat,’ accelerate results and rev up the corporate metabolism!

Want to know more about your organization’s connection to the human body? Read this recent article by Laura Mooney, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Metastorm.

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Coinciding with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, IDC released a buzz-generating report that found that 5.8 billion tons of CO2 emissions could be eliminated by 2020 with the help of certain green technologies.

The report examined four major economic sectors including the transport sector, which, according to the findings, needs to focus on supply chain logistics and private transport optimization for emissions reductions, and placed IT investments that enhance supply chain logistics among the most important to CO2 emissions reduction within this sector.

Streamlining supply chains is more than just a green initiative, however. In the new normal economy, technology is making the world smaller while greatly increasing the scope of business operations. Organizations who invest in IT to achieve the most agile and cost and resource effective supply chain will realize exponential ROI to outperform their competition.

Emphasizing this importance, respondents in another recent report Greater Innovation through Closer Collaboration said that it is critical for their corporation to respond to “competitive pressures to improve productivity and performance and customer demands for greater speed and visibility into supply and delivery chains” in order for them to survive in today’s fast-paced global marketplace.

The good news is that innovative technology solutions like business process management (BPM), business process analysis (BPA) and enterprise architecture (EA) can help you holistically model and analyze your supply chain and your entire enterprise, test the effects of potential change, and then execute leaner, meaner, and yes, even greener processes across your organization to achieve overall enterprise optimization by eliminating waste and accelerating performance.

Want to know more?

Metastorm’s complimentary eBook Green BPM- The Best Kept Secret for Meeting Your Company’s Green Mandates explains how BPM can help organizations:

• Reduce paper consumption,
• Reduce fuel and transport costs,
• And, of course achieve greater efficiency in their manufacturing and supply chain processes.

This eBook is absolutely a must-read whether you are looking to purify your enterprise for greater business value, to go green, or both!

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A unique tool, EA creates a physical representation and performs a holistic analysis of the abstract relationships between an organization’s people, systems and processes from both a large and small scale perspective to enable a better understanding, and even a reworking of those relationships for a more agile, productive and streamlined enterprise.

According to Kappelman, EA can enable enterprise-wide integration and coordination. Today’s EA capabilities like “repositories and … modeling tools,” are bringing us closer and closer to “holistic, enterprise integrated model vision,” he said. This will enable organizations to collaborate with more agility and efficiency than ever before.

EA is an innovative solution that allows you to achieve optimal performance in the new normal global economy. By modeling your organization, you can effectively understand its structure and relationship functions to gain real visibility into change before its implementation—ensuring that you make the right changes, at the right time, and in the right places.

To learn more about how EA can help you outperform in today’s economy, check out this complimentary Metastorm ebook: BPM & EA: Two Smart Investments in a Recession & a Rebound.

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On the fence about a BPM investment?

A recent research report from AIIM,“Business Process Management- are we making the most of content-driven processes?” reported that 72% of organizations using BPM received a 100% payback in their BPM investment within 2 years, with 50% of those surveyed receiving a full payback within 18 months.

Ok, so you’re a believer—but what about the rest of your organization?

After nearly a decade of market research on what drives successful BPM implementations, the answer for what prevents them is consistently “lack of sponsorship” by upper management. In other words, the single largest hurdle to BPM implementation is cited as finding someone (an executive or a department) to pay for and champion it.

Want to build a business case for your BPM investment to get that upper management support that your project needs? Check out our complimentary whitepaper, “Building a Business Case for BPM- a Fast Path to Real Results.”

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The Metastorm Enterprise Process Advantage Awards program is designed to recognize organizations that are successfully using Metastorm software to realize business objectives, achieve a measurable return on investment, and/or create strategic advantage.

Why Enter?

Winners receive a free pass to the 2011 Metastorm Global User Conference, and will be invited to participate in a thought leadership panel session to help other Metastorm customers learn valuable tips for achieving success.

Winners will also be recognized at the Metastorm Global User Conference and featured both on Metastorm’s website and in a press release that will be sent to technology and business publications.

As a recipient of a Metastorm Enterprise Process Advantage award your organization will gain recognition as a technology leader and a business improvement leader in its industry. You will also gain recognition for your innovative use of technology and your success within your own organization to help in further extending the value of EA, BPA, and BPM to other areas of the business.

So why wait? It’s easy to nominate your customer or your own organization today!

Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your success!

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With a $1.4 billion budget, one transportation agency needed to accomplish a wide range of its responsibilities including road and bridge maintenance, transportation planning, data collection and evaluation, project management, and contract compliance. To ensure all of these processes ran smoothly, department officials decided to implement an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution to optimize the agency’s portfolio of processes, information applications and technology.

The agency’s EA initiative began when officials embarked on an intensive strategic planning effort. The team wanted to capture data and information gleaned during the planning process for use in the future. They realized that Metastorm ProVision® was the perfect structure for doing this.

Whether the agency was working on an engineering design application that affected state highway designs, or a financial application that ensures contractors and vendors are paid in a timely manner, Metastorm ProVision provided a methodology mechanism that allowed internal business users to understand the IT and the IT systems and add value to the process of selecting and integrating application systems that evidentially supported their citizenry.

As a result, the transportation department was able to quickly develop context charts, data models, work flows, reporting views/“radar charts” that allowed managers to integrate strategic IT planning with operational plans and budgets and better manage the entire agency.

To read more about Metastorm ProVision, and the results of the implementation, click here.

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