| Change is constant. There is no place where this is | | | | with BPMS solutions from vendors such as Appian, |
| more evident than the business world. Every CEO | | | | IBM, Lombardi, Metastorm, Savvion, Pega and others |
| faces a constantly changing business environment | | | | takes a fraction of the time to build and change |
| nearly every day – from a global recession to a | | | | compared to conventional development approaches. |
| competitor launches a new offering. | | | | Enterprise Rules Management (ERM) solutions take |
| Every change is an opportunity. Business Agility | | | | this approach a step further. By separating the rules |
| demands a faster and better response, and can drive | | | | from the application code, changes in business rules, |
| a measurable increase in a corporation’s revenue | | | | such as an increase in sales tax, do not require any |
| and profitability. Unfortunately, IT often slows the | | | | change or testing of the underlying code, resulting in |
| business down by limiting the options available to | | | | faster Time-to-Value (TTV) and exceptional ROI. |
| management, and forcing a delayed response. IT and | | | | Meeting the needs of ever-evolving business requires |
| Business alignment is a major and constant challenge | | | | an IT infrastructure that can respond now. Legacy |
| for many corporations. This is a direct result of the | | | | applications hold an enterprise hostage to varying |
| way IT applications have always been engineered. | | | | degrees of flexibility and openness, making it impossible |
| IT Agility is about the flexibility to act – quickly. | | | | to act with anything approaching the necessary sense |
| Today, IT applications are a mass of code and data | | | | of urgency that stakeholders demand. Solutions from |
| and cannot be easily changed. Any change requires | | | | vendors such as OpenSpan and eglue provide a |
| developers to rewrite code. But there’s light at the | | | | cost-effective way of integrating and enhancing |
| end of the tunnel. Consulting firms such as Agilian | | | | existing applications to accommodate for change, |
| leverage new IT paradigms such as Business Process | | | | even for the most rigid and obscure legacy |
| Management (BPM) and Enterprise Rules | | | | applications. |
| Management (ERM) and provide IT and Business the | | | | Agilian harnesses the power of best-of-breed |
| ability to align, adapt to change, and grow, all faster | | | | Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), |
| than ever before. | | | | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise |
| BPM gives organizations the ability to develop complex | | | | Rules Management (ERM) solutions, giving enterprises |
| applications with less effort. BPM Suites are unique | | | | the precise customized resources necessary to |
| software development solutions where the process | | | | develop, enhance and integrate business applications |
| design is also the application. Changing the application | | | | faster and more efficiently across the organization and |
| only requires going back to the process schematics | | | | achieve IT and Business Agility. |
| and modifying the design. New application development | | | | |