Business Process Automation

Enterprises have to adapt their business processes quickly and efficiently to new business environments to ensure business success and long term survival. It is not sufficient to apply best business practices but new practices have to be developed and executed. These requirements are met by new business process automation technologies, based on concepts like web services, EAI, workflow, enterprise service architectures, and automation engines. Business process automation becomes a key enabler for business process excellence.

This book explains major trends in business process automation and shows how new technologies and solutions are applied in practice. It outlines how process automation becomes an element of an overall process lifecycle management approach, structured on the basis of the ARIS House of business excellence and implemented through software tools like the ARIS toolset.

Guide how to achieve business process excellence through automation technologies With case studies of successful business process automation initiatives Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Business Process Automation Combining Best and Next Practices.- Process Automation Using the Real-Time Enterprise Concept.- ARIS Process PlatformTM and SAP NetWeaverTM: Next Generation Business Process Management.- Dynamic and Mobile Business Process Management.- Automation of Manufacturing Support Processes at a Mid-Market Manufacturing Company, Utilizing SAP Solutions.- Business Process Automation: Automating and Monitoring the Mortgage Process.- Excellence in Vehicle Financing.- EAI Goes Hollywood: Design of a Loosely Coupled Architecture to Manage Critical Business Data Flows at a Major Motion Picture Studio.- A Process-Oriented Approach to Implementation of Microsoft Axapta at Bowne Global Solutions.- U.S. Army Logistics Process Automation Based on SAP NetWeaver Technology.- ARIS in Cross-Border E-Government Integrated Automation of Public Services for the InfoCitizen.- Appendix: The Authors.