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The US Air Force gets Leaner with Metastorm

Posted by: Metastorm Blogger in: ● March 11, 2010

This week Infonomics, AIIM’s weekly newsletter, featured a podcast with recent guest blogger Brian Chaney, the Director of IT Strategy and Architecture for Copper River IT.
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 [...]

Get Leaner Faster with Business Process Management

Posted by: Metastorm Blogger in: ● February 22, 2010

Last week we hosted a webinar entitled, “Get Leaner Faster with Business Process Management,” which featured Kevin Haugh, Vice President of Product Marketing for Metastorm, and Brian Chaney, Director of IT Strategy and Architecture for Copper River IT. During the webinar Chaney discussed best practices to kick start a Lean initiative using a Business Process [...]

Lean process agility breeds green viability

Posted by: Metastorm Blogger in: ● December 16, 2009

The new normal business approach is all about purity, and so is the green movement. Businesses today want to eliminate wasted resources, and the green movement wants to stop us from wasting the Earth’s resources. Funny—we’re learning more and more that the two go hand-in-hand.

States streamlining tax collection process to mitigate budget shortfalls

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● July 31, 2009

While some sectors of the economy are showing positive signs, budgets in key states around the country continue to linger “in the red” as rising unemployment and reduced spending have decreased income and sales tax revenue, respectively. According to a recent Financial Times article, despite receiving federal stimulus money, 46 of the 50 states show [...]

How to use BPM and EA tools to thrive during a recession

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● June 10, 2009

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 [...]

Enterprise Architecture still delivers in recessionary times

Posted by: Metastorm EMEA PR in: ● June 8, 2009

Enterprise Architecture (EA) increasingly covers a broader role in an economic downturn as reported recently by ZDNet. The challenge for IT departments is, according to Dana Gardner, “to balance the long-term goals against the pressing short-term needs of the business.” In fact, while most firms think they are applying what seems to be a logical [...]