What and Why IBM BPM ?
For a moment keep IBM aside from IBM BPM and only think about BPM, what comes into your mind ? Well! I don't know about you but below keywords come into my mind:
- Business.
- Process.
- Management.
Isn't it obvious, since the abbreviation of these words combined is BPM. Anyways lets dive deep what exactly is this.
Business: Think of a business as an activity which will give some outcome depending upon the actions and input provided.
Process: Process can be a set of defined activities performed in a pre-defined manner based on conditions of certain variables.
Management: Here management is applied to identify and implement the process as per desired business outcome.
IBM has provided this tool to easily create, manage and modify the business process with as less effort as possible. Using IBM BPM, it is very easy to capture the requirement as per the client because BPD(Business Process Definition) can be created in front of the client and playback can be done to understand the flow. With so many version upgrades, IBM has tried to perfect the IBM BPM tool and every new release is better than the previous one.
Why IBM BPM?
This topic I think can be better explained by sales guys, but anyways as an IBM BPM developer I'll try to answer this. With so many technological advances in terms of programming stacks, IBM BPM is still relevant and will stay in the picture let's understand why?
- Requirement Gathering: This part is very easy and has a visual appeal to business users. It helps them to connect quickly with the tool. I'll explain this more in later pages.
- Development Time: Development time is reduced since the development mostly contains drag and drop items which create a mind-map image in the brain of the developer.
- Agile Methodology: Agile methodology can be used to provide solutions of business quickly. Due to which SDLC takes less and solution is deployed to production.
- Improvements and optimizations: Processes can be improved and optimized regularly to reduce TAT and effective outcomes of the process.
- Robustness of Java and Security: This tool is primarily built upon Java Technology, so all Java features are inherited in it automatically including security.