Laura Mooney, VP of Corporate Communications for Metastorm, authored this article in eWeek to explain how investing in relatively low-cost, quick-to-implement business process management (BPM) and enterprise architecture (EA) tools can help you make smart cost reductions, operate more efficiently with fewer resources, and keep your business operating at an effective level.

The article titled, “How to Use Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture Tools to Thrive in a Recession,” first outlines four ways BPM software can allow for cost savings. BPM software can:

• Increase efficiency
• Maximize current resources
• Lower risk
• Gain greater visibility into dead weight

While an EA software tool can help organizations evaluate and make critical infrastructure decisions that can dramatically reduce fixed-cost expenditures and ensure that any reductions are the right reductions to make. EA software can:

• Identify duplicate or underutilized overhead
• Optimize your value chain
• Quickly and effectively assimilate mergers and acquisitions

Investing in these types of tools will ensure that you are well-positioned when the economy rebounds.

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