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Recent BPI Articles

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Business Intelligence / Corporate Performance Management
Customer Relationship Management
Business Process Improvement

All portals list systems and VARS as well as recent articles. The portals allow you to filter systems and the VARs that support them based on the application, size of company and distribution model (on premise or on demand).  Vendors and [...]

December 8, 2009 from Baseline – “Despite a multidecade focus, business-technology processes in many companies are unmanaged, invisible and unmeasured.
Consequently, they are executed haphazardly and inconsistently. This results in delays, errors, low quality and high overhead costs. Such unmanaged processes cannot detect and adapt to changing market conditions—and that can be fatal in today’s business [...]

July 27, 2009 from CFO and sponsored by Deloitte – “No surprise, cost-cutting initiatives are more crucial than ever for executives: “Where will I get the most impact without negatively affecting our ability to serve customers?” “Where can I reduce costs without endangering our ability to rebound quickly when the economy improves?” “Are opportunities the [...]

2008 from Ventana Research and published by BPM Magazine – “…Improving business performance is a goal that cannot be realized without mutual cooperation and alignment between business and IT. In collaboration, IT focuses on architecture, system administration, scalability and performance, security and infrastructure, while business evaluates the practical usability and capabilities of tools being considered [...]

Recent Project Management Articles

August 2010 from Project Times – “It seems unbelievable that my clients would be struggling to find and retain excellent project managers in today’s economy – after all, aren’t we still emerging from a recession?  However, once there are multiple data points with a clear trend line, it seems prudent to face reality.  I have [...]

March 2010 from IndustryWeek – IndustryWeek posed the following hypothetical problem inviting solutions to the problem which have also been published on their site.
“One year ago my company embarked on an enterprise-wide implementation, selecting an ERP system and a suite of software to address our primary business functions. This decision was not made lightly. Lestornia [...]

October 2009 from IBM via ProjectTimes – These are the traps with descriptions and how to avoid them in the linked article:

Scope creep
Asking customers what they want
Inability to adapt to change
Failure to communicate effectively
Failure to communicate frequently
Unwieldy documents and too much information
Hidden project artifacts
Ambiguous requirements
Failure to measure and assess requirements processes
Isolating your requirements

180 View – [...]

February 2010 from ProjectTimes – “What qualities are most important for a project manager to be an effective project leader? It’s a question often asked and one that makes us sit back and think… Over the past few years, the people at ESI International, a leader in project management training, have looked at what makes [...]

Systems

BPI’s goal is to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes. Efficiency is about doing things right with the least amount of resources and effectiveness is about doing the right things. Doing the right things is often defined by an organization’s critical success factors, defined as what must be done in order for an organization to be successful. There are multiple tools that are used in BPI including project management, flowcharting and business process management. Corporate Performance Management also contains tools for BPI - See our BI / CPM portal.

The products have been segregated by tier based on target customer and price. Within each tier, we have further classified which applications are applicable to the systems as well as the distribution model. See the filter box above to sort for the desired tier, application, and distribution model.

Tier One/Enterprise (Customer Revenues > $200M, Customer Employees > 500, License Fees > $300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees > 2:1)

• Appian
• ARIS Platform
• Asta
• Metastorm
• Microsoft Project
• Pegasystems
• Primavera

Tier Two/Mid Market (Customer Revenues $10M-$200M, Customer Employees 50-500, License Fees $50k-$300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees 1:1-2:1)

• Appian
• Artemis
• Asta
• Metastorm
• Microsoft Project
• onProject
• Pegasystems
• Planview
• Primavera
• Savvion
• Ultimus

Tier Three/Entry Level (Customer Revenues <$10M, Customer Employees <50, License Fees <$50k and Implementation Fees:License Fees <1:1)

• Appian
• Artemis
• Microsoft Project
• onProject
• Planview
• Savvion
• Ultimus

VARs

Value Added Resellers (VARs) implement ERP products. However many of the products listed are also implemented by the companies that own the products.