Adeptia BPM Server is a software product that is designed to MANAGE, AUTOMATE AND OPTIMIZE business processes. It combines process management with application integration in a single, easy-to-use product. The BPM Server easily and quickly automates business processes using industry-specific standards.
It helps companies and organizations to design, automate and improve workflows and thereby drive efficiencies. It also allows customers to integrate business users and process participants with disparate information sources and software applications both within an enterprise and across customers, vendors and business partners. Adeptia enables automation of not just human-to-human business processes but also the more common human-to-system or system-to-human processes as well as system-to-system (straight thru) processes.
Adeptia BPM Server helps business users and IT staff to collaborate so as to automate and optimize complex business processes. It offers a powerful business tool for business analysts and managers to document, control and monitor critical processes and then improve them. It also offers IT staff an easy and simple way to deliver highly complex process management for changing business needs. This enterprise-class software allows companies to leverage the Internet by deploying extended enterprise processes that link partners, suppliers and customers.
Adeptia BPM Server combines two important functionalities: Process Management and Data Integration. This helps customers in using just one, consolidated software solution to access business critical information and presents it to business users to review and make decisions and route this information to other users and applications. Adeptia BPM Server is not just a process documentation and design tool but it includes important capabilities such as a repository and also a powerful execution engine to make it a full-fledged
Business Process Management Suite. This product has the following key components:
- Design Studio is a web-browser based collaborative environment for business analysts and IT staff to design, configure and manage process flows
- Services Repository is a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based library of reusable objects such as process flows, workflow tasks and web services components that have been created using the Design Studio.
- Execution Engine is a run-time component that triggers, manages, routes and tracks the running of the process flows.
Adeptia BPM Server software offers all the features and functionality that one would need in a complete integration-centric Business Process Management Suite. This includes the following capabilities:
- Process Designer is a web-based design and modeling tool to help business analysts easily create and document their business processes in a highly graphical, intuitive way. The designed process can be exported to a PDF format document for sharing and archiving. Learn More...
- Process Simulation is a built-in simulation system in the Process Designer. It allows business analysts to apply timing, resource and cost parameters to the designed business process and then run an analysis to identify the bottlenecks and see how the process may be optimized and improved.
- Rules based Routing allows complex business processes with complex rules to be specified such that routing of workflow tasks and information can be affected automatically in the process flows at run-time.
- Workflow Automation is available in the Adeptia BPM solution to allow manual human workflow tasks to be automated. This allows business users and process participants to interact with running process flows. Learn More...
- Forms Designer capability including easy design of rich, dynamic Web2.0 forms is included in them Adeptia BPM software.
- Portal functionality including management of users and roles and their relationships, permissions based access and secure login access are some of the capabilities included in this solution.
- Task Manager is pre-built into this BPM solution to allow business users to see which tasks are waiting for them, their priorities and their due dates. Managers can see the Task Managers of their subordinates and they have the ability to reassign tasks if needed.
- Document Management is included in the Adeptia BPM Server and it allows users to upload and download documents securely and then track documents related to the various instances of the process flows.
- Activity Monitoring is available to allow users and managers to track the running and completed process flows and tasks as well as view the task queues of the users.
- Reports and Dashboards are included in the Adeptia BPM Server to allow creation, generation and delivery of rich reports in various formats based on custom pre-defined templates.
- Web Services in an important capability that is fully supported and included with the Adeptia product. Web Services client allows, within any process, an ability to access any web service and exchange data. Web Services provider is also available to expose any business process as a Web Service to other applications. Learn More...
As noted above, Adeptia Business Process Management (BPM) Server is a complete software solution that helps companies fully automate their business processes. Some of the main benefits of the Adeptia solution are:
- Ease of Use: Adeptia has really made the work of designing and automating process flows as simple, easy and painless as using Powerpoint or Visio. Everything is graphical and wizard-driven, there is no need for any coding. This makes the advantages and benefits of BPM accessible to everyone.
- Fast Time to Market: The ease of use and collaborative environment in Adeptia significantly reduces the time it takes to design and automate a business process. The designed process in Adeptia is automatically “runnable” so there are no extra steps needed to execute and test a process flow.
- Cost effective: Adeptia BPM Server is attractively priced and is available on a subscription pricing model. This significantly reduces the size of the budget needed and also reduces the risk of trying BPM. This is another factor that makes the advantages and benefits of BPM accessible to everyone.
- Integration-centric approach: Adeptia takes an integration-centric approach to BPM. This is important because most automated processes require some data or information to be brought to the business user to review and make decisions.
- Ease of maintenance: Adeptia is based on a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. This increases reusability and simplifies the process of making enhancements and changes to business rules.
Adeptia BPM Server is a flexible software product that is an ideal platform to create many types of process solutions and address different types of business needs.
Business Process Management solutions offer a number of business benefits to companies. Some of the common uses of the product are listed below.
- Process Design and Modeling: Often important business processes and rules are not documented and they reside in people’s minds. This leads to dependence on certain key individuals who understand these rules, ad-hoc and inconsistent processes, improper application of the rules, and a large training challenge when new hires come in. The solution is to document the high-level and detailed business process flow, the business rules that are involved in the process flow and the tasks and related decisions in the various steps of the flow. Adeptia BPM Server provides an easy to use, web-based tool to do this effectively.
- Process and Workflow Automation: Once the business process flow is documented it is natural to try to automate it. This is especially important for business processes that are repeatable and have a number of manual work steps and rules. Automating these processes is very easy with Adeptia.
- Operational Efficiencies and Improvement: Many organizations know they have inefficient and manual processes that lead to slow work, mistakes and poor customer service. Fixing this is important because that leads to improved quality, operational efficiencies and increased productivity. Adeptia BPM Server is particularly well-suited for these types of initiatives.
- Gaining Competitive Advantage: In any competitive industry, it is imperative to find ways of gaining tactical and strategic advantage. An important way to achieve this goal is by constantly working on making small, incremental improvements in processes by automating them more and more. Over time, this will build into a much more tightly run, well organized, highly automated operation that has a strong competitive advantage over its rivals. Adeptia BPM solution is designed to allow easy changes in current and new processes to make them better.
- Consistency in Business Processes: An organization projects maturity, reliability and trust by ensuring that the business processes and rules that it executes are run the same way every time and all the time. This is only possible if an automated solution such as Adeptia BPM Server is utilized to design, model, execute, manage and track business processes.
