1 What is BPM?

The term BPM stands for "Business Process Management". Business process management is the heart of Enterprise's Identity. If BPM is discussed in terms of Layman terminology,

Consider a school needs funds for their fest to be organised.

1) Head Master or Principal sends a notice to the classroom regarding the fest and the funds contribution.

2) Teacher presents the notice to the students.

3) Childrens conveys the message of fest & funds to the parents.

4) Response of the parents been carried back to the teachers( either yes or no ).

5) Teachers collects funds and then return it back to the principal.

The above 5 steps are the process for a fest to be organized in a school.For all these steps need to be completed in time without any delay or to avoid mis-communication between the actors(Principal, Teachers, Students, Parents) the best way is to automate the process. All these terms can be acheived through BPM.

In the real world, each business has unique characteristics that are embedded in the process. All too often, enterprises do not have adequate understanding and control over their processes. Management might have a model of an ideal process, but an actual execution of that process might be strikingly different, leading toward redundancy, errors, gaps and inefficiency. In short, without effective management, processes quickly locked into isolated units.

BPM defined by Hurwitz research group, as the ability to have end to end visibility and control over all parts of a long-lived, multi-step information request or transaction that spans multiplie applications and people in one or more companies.