BPM Everywhere (BPME) represents a strategy for coping, and possibly exploiting, the disruption that is anticipated as a result of structural changes due to technical progression known as the
Internet of Things
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...
(IoT). IoT will substantially increase the number of devices connected together and will increase the complexity of those connections.
IoT is expected to cause the practitioners of
Business Process Management
Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...
(BPM), a well-established discipline concerned with management and optimizing an organizations processes, to face a number of critical issues.
In November 2014, IT Industry magazine, Information Age said that "Simply because they connect, communicate and analyse doesn’t make an IoT thing productive or useful. To be impactful, IoT technologies need to solve real problems that typically involve multiple collaborating activities that include people, systems, and 'things'."
According to Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, a leading expert in Business Process Management (BPM), "the real transformation of the IoT will occur through the 'end-to-end digitization of processes.'"
BPME is an approach that leverages traditional
business process modeling
Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of process modeling, representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. B ...
techniques together with
process mining
Process mining is a family of techniques relating the fields of data science and process management to support the analysis of operational processes based on event logs. The goal of process mining is to turn event data into insights and actions. ...
and process analytics in order to automate and distribute the job of discovering, measuring, and improving the processes. Nathaniel Palmer, leading analyst in the field of BPM and Director of the
Workflow Management Coalition
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) was a consortium formed to define standardization, standards for the interoperability of workflow management systems. The coalition was disbanded in 2019 and no longer exists.
History
The Coalition was found ...
(WfMC), sees BPME as a next-generation application development platform, combining the ability to quickly adapt processes with the ability to more cost-effectively design and build better applications Palmer views this as one most significant shifts in the way applications are currently built, as well as shift for 3-tier to 4-tier architectures.
The impact of
IoT
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...
on the business world in the coming decade has been compared to the impact of smart phones on the previous decade. BPME is one among several potential resolution strategies, which includes Social internet of Things.
Surendra Reddy, CEO of Quantiply said "People, Things and Processes that run in this connected world leave behind vast digital footprints of these processes, things, people, interactions, and daily rhythms of the society. As a result, the Internet is a powerful tool to persuade, connect and engage humans and things alike serving as the common fabric of interconnection among everything". Whilst Nathaniel Palmer suggests "Not even the emergence of the Web and Internet-based “digital native” business models can compare with the level of intimacy now available with your customers".
See also
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Business Process Management
Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...
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Workflow Management Coalition
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) was a consortium formed to define standardization, standards for the interoperability of workflow management systems. The coalition was disbanded in 2019 and no longer exists.
History
The Coalition was found ...
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External links
Workflow Management CoalitionOrganization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM
BPM.COMDestination for articles, news, research and white papers on Business Process Management, Process Modeling, Business Rules, and Case Management
Internet of things
Business process management