Business Process Management

Automate Business Processes

Improve efficiencies and productivity by automating critical business processes.

Business processes involve people and content and often span multiple enterprise divisions. Only when these work together in an integrated environment can you optimize productivity and maximize profits.

By optimizing business processes your company can also more readily comply with regulations, and quickly respond to changing market dynamics and customer demands. In turn, more efficient processes increase productivity and create a competitive edge.

With the Business Process Management component of the Lava ECM Suite, you can create, deploy, modify and manage business process of any complexity, integrating people and content from multiple divisions for true, end-to-end process management. The ease with which this can be accomplished empowers business process owners to build and manage workflows with little or no dependence on valuable IT resources.

Benefits

• Visual Workflow designer makes it easy to create processes quickly with an intuitive, self-documenting interface

• Updating or altering workflow designs is as easy as creating them, using graphical techniques and property sheets

• Create even the most complex processes using a powerful set of graphically represented actions covering all possible process requirements, without writing program code

• Automate 3rd party business systems including CRM, ERP, accounting software, and just about anything with a database using the Lava Programming system

• Autoprompting provides optimal efficiency - no requirement for the operator to query an action list; the highest priority action is always prompted immediately

• Full Internet operability allows design, control and operation of workflows from any geographical location across any Internet link including 3G into a notebook

Business Process Management Products

The Business Process Management component of the Lava ECM Suite is delivered by the following products:

• The Lava Vault server supports the processing of multiple concurrent business processes. Highly flexible and scalable, it provides event-based processing, archive storage of past processes and very low server load on a per-user basis

• Workflow Designer provides graphical process design and update, from anywhere within Internet access.

• Lava Programmer provides easy and flexible integration with ERP, legacy applications and other databases and data sources

• Workflow Operator provides a dedicated first-class autoprompting interface to the business process system, allowing any number of users to interact with executing processes.  Independence from web services not only means more efficient operation, but also requires no queries from the operator, as prompts are automatically raised when interaction is required.