Posted by: Greg Carter on: February 11, 2010
Recently industry analyst firm Gartner, inc. unveiled 5 Business Process Management predictions for 2010 and beyond, highlighting important changes and trends that we will soon see in the BPMS space. In this post, Greg Carter, Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Product Development for Metastorm, weighs in on two of these predictions.
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.”
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Posted by: Metastorm Blogger on: February 9, 2010
Today Metastorm is pleased to announce the release of Version 6.2 of the Metastorm ProVision® enterprise modeling, business architecture, and business process analysis software suite, including updates to Metastorm’s web-based modeling repository.
Key features of the new release include support for the latest modeling standards, improved ease of use, and extended support for enterprise collaboration, which includes sharing and reuse of models, objects and libraries, as well as enablers for Process Centers of Excellence.
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Posted by: Metastorm Blogger on: February 3, 2010
Today Metastorm announced the expansion of its Asia operations including the opening this week of a new Hong Kong office and the appointment of Paul Watts as Director of Asia Operations – to address growing demand for its software in the region.
The use of enterprise architecture and business process management software has grown rapidly over the past several years as a result of its ability to help organizations see the big picture of their operations, reduce costs, improve productivity, gain better visibility and control, and adapt more quickly to changing market conditions.
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Posted by: Metastorm Blogger on: February 2, 2010
Recently WSJ.com featured an article that examined why, like many weight-loss plans, Lean, Six-Sigma and other process-improvement initiatives often start out strong and then slowly peter out, and importantly, what companies can do to avoid falling victim to the same type of failure.
In this blog post, I will draw parallels to Metastorm’s “Get Lean for 2010” program with the goal of helping organizations that find themselves stuck at certain points in a process improvement initiative to get themselves back on track and avoid failure. The article describes three phases of a typical process-improvement project:
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Posted by: Metastorm Blogger on: January 28, 2010
Have you registered for the 2010 Metastorm Global User Conference yet?
If not, why wait? The early bird registration discount ends this Sunday, January 31, 2010.
Registering is easy! Just go to the official 2010 Metastorm Global User Conference page found here.
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Posted by: Metastorm Blogger on: January 26, 2010
Today Metastorm announced that its Lean webinar series is now open for registration.
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:
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