1. Business Process Applications: The Future of Business Applications
OpenEdge BPM
Business Process Applications: The Future of Business Applications
Jarmo Nieminen
Solution Consultant / TAM – Nordics
April 1st, 2011

3. About Business Processes
The business processes of an enterprise describe how it achieves its business objectives
A business process is never perfect and can always be improved
There are at least 1 business process inside your OpenEdge application – usually there are many business processees. Like create an order, Order fullfillment, Accounts Payable, create purchase Order
A business process is more than just a diagram

4. Key Elements of a Business Process
Information
People and Systems
Workflow Description + +
Business Rules
Metrics & Measurements
Process + =

5. It is important to achieve all of the above with low TCO
Progress BPM Values
It is important to achieve all of the above with low TCO

6. What's the Issue People and systems are not connected with processes
Departmental automation is not the solution
ORDER
PARCEL
TRANSPORT
DELIVERY
OpenEdge
App
SORTER
SCM
BILLING
This creates significant “white-space” between functional areas which are a source of enterprise drag, increased cost, and lost information

7. Becoming Process Driven
Agile businesses manage business processes that span people, systems and departments
ORDER
PARCEL
TRANSPORT
DELIVERY
OpenEdge
App
SORTER
SCM
BILLING

8. BPMS BPI Business Process Improvement BPA
Key Capabilities of Progress BPM
BPMS
Business Process Management System
Biz Solution Developer
BPI Business Process Improvement
Business Manager
BPA
Business Process Analyses
Business Analyst

9. Key Components of Progress Savvion BPM
Process Modeler
BPM Portal
BPM Studio
BPM Server
Process Asset Manager
BusinessExpert
Business Rule Management System
Document Management System
BPI Business Process Improvement
BPA
Business Process Analyses
BPMS
Business Process Management System

10. Process Modeling Easy to Use Multimodal Design Tabular Diagram
Gestures

11. Analyze the Process – Optimize It
360 degree
Path Analysis
Timeline Analysis
Goal based Simulation

12. Create UI and Develop Rich Applications

13. Integration With Legacy Systems
Out-of-the-box adapters
Database integration
Web services integration
JMS integration
integration
SAP integration
Documentum integration
Microsoft Office
Progress Actional
Progress Apama
Progress Sonic
Adapter framework
Sonic ESB enhances the integration capabilities

14. Manage Business Rules
Data
Event
Decision
Validation
User Interface

15. Web Portal Personalized dashboards Collaborative Task Management
Process Status
Auditability

16. Process Analytics Define Objective Notifications Corrective Action
Define metrics and objectives
Monitor SLA Compliance
Analyze
Analyze Process Performance Problems
Triage Processes with Rules Based solutions

17. Progress Savvion BPM Provides Most Comprehensive Change Management
Savvion BPM Suite supports multiple process versions to be active in production.
When a new version of a process is deployed:
New instances are created with new version
In-flight process instances in older version can continue their execution based on old version
In-flight processes from old version(s) can be selected based on various criteria and bulk migrated to new version with
Process migration is wizard based
Changes to a deployed process can be re-deployed as a new version, or to refresh the installed process.

18. Gartner BPM research

19. Introducing OpenEdge BPM
The Integration of Progress OpenEdge and Progress Savvion BPM

20. Existing OpenEdge Applications Can Be Modernized Using OpenEdge BPMNo
Campaign
Func 5
GUI 3 No
Return Opp
Qualify
Opp?
Review
App?
Func 6
Yes
Assign Acct Mgr
Func 4
Qualify lead1
Qualify lead2
Inside sales
Review opp1
Review opp3
Sales Mgr
Assign prosp1
Assign prosp4
Acct Mgr
Yes
GUI 4
Func 3
Func 2
GUI 2
Func 5
A-GUI
R-GUI
Q-GUI
Func 1
GUI 1
Qualify Service
Review Service
Camp
Assign Service

21. OpenEdge and Progress Savvion BPM Interoperate AlreadyOE
Development
Environment
BPM
Development
Environment
You can benefit from BPM today.
Model and analyze business processes.
Build add-on business process applications to your OpenEdge applications. OE
Execution
Environment
BPM
Execution
Environment OE
DBMS
DBMS
Available today

22. Roadmap Information
D I S C L A I M E R
This roadmap is for informational purposes only, and the reader is hereby cautioned that actual product development can, and often does, vary significantly from roadmaps. This roadmap may not be interpreted as any commitment on behalf of Progress, and future development, timing and release of any features or functionality described in this roadmap remains at our sole discretion.
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23. Driving Dynamic Business Applications
Integrated OpenEdge Architect and BPM Studio
OpenEdge BPM is the only integrated application development and business process-enabled platform, simplifying the development and delivery of dynamic business applications.
BPM-Enabled OpenEdge Run-time
Value proposition of OpenEdge BPM as an introduction to the solution.
OpenEdge DB

24. Phase I Integration: Single OpenEdge DBMSOE
Development
Environment
BPM
Development
Environment
Requires only OpenEdge DBMS.
OpenEdge data is accessed from BPM and vice versa.
Reduces the cost and complexity of application deployment. OE
Execution
Environment
BPM
Execution
Environment OE
DBMS
Available in 1H of 2011
This roadmap is for informational purposes only, and the reader is hereby cautioned that actual product development may vary significantly from roadmaps. This roadmap may not be interpreted as any commitment on behalf of Progress, and future development, timing and release of any features or functionality described in this roadmap remains at our sole discretion.

25. Phase II Integration: Unified Development Environment
Simplifies business process application development and improves developers’ experience.
BPM functionality is invoked natively from ABL and vice versa.
Data storage and access are unified. OE
Execution
Environment
BPM
Execution
Environment OE
DBMS
Available in 2H of 2011
This roadmap is for informational purposes only, and the reader is hereby cautioned that actual product development may vary significantly from roadmaps. This roadmap may not be interpreted as any commitment on behalf of Progress, and future development, timing and release of any features or functionality described in this roadmap remains at our sole discretion.

26. Our Vision of OpenEdge BPM
One integrated, easy-to-use BPM- enabled ADP for building and deploying business process applications.
Higher business values
Excellent customer and developer experience
Lowest total cost of ownership
Will provide unified data, development, and execution environments.
Unified
Development
Environment
Unified
Execution
Environment OE
DBMS
This roadmap is for informational purposes only, and the reader is hereby cautioned that actual product development may vary significantly from roadmaps. This roadmap may not be interpreted as any commitment on behalf of Progress, and future development, timing and release of any features or functionality described in this roadmap remains at our sole discretion.

27. Summary
Companies of all sizes need business process applications.
OpenEdge BPM is a BPM-enabled ADP for building business process applications.
Our customers will build and deliver business process applications with OpenEdge BPM.
OpenEdge BPM will enable users to improve their business processes.

28. Progress helps businesses make progress.