The ability to remain agile is essential to success in business. With constantly changing circumstances due to competitive, regulatory or market challenges, an organization needs to be able to react quickly without heavy reliance on IT departments. By monitoring current processes and being able to quickly accommodate necessary changes, businesses can avoid risk and take advantage of opportunities in an ever-changing environment, rather than be restricted by a hard to change IT infrastructure. With the advent of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, BAM and BPM have become attainable enterprise solutions that give any organization a competitive edge.
With business process management (BPM), processes can be monitored and automated to react to certain events. As a result, administrative costs are reduced by automating time-consuming manual processes and operational costs are reduced by shortening business process cycle times.
The ability to aggregate, analyze and present real-time critical business information, is what is referred to as Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). It is an extremely sought after technology that provides information that allows a company to make better-informed decisions, quickly address problem areas, and re-position organizations to take full advantage of emerging opportunities. Operations managers and upper management can now have instant and constant access to critical business performance indicators, which gives them a powerful advantage in today’s marketplace.