CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 February 2007
Product News
EMC Delivers Comprehensive Business Process Management Suite for Optimizing The Broadest Range of Enterprise Processes
EMC Corporation announced the availability of the EMC® Documentum® Process Suite, a comprehensive business process management (BPM) solution for analyzing, modeling, orchestrating and optimizing a wide range of enterprise processes involving people, systems, content and data. The Documentum Process Suite is the only offering on the market that delivers a complete BPM suite leveraging EMC's comprehensive portfolio of information infrastructure offerings to provide organizations with the ability to manage both processes and the information that drives them.
The introduction of the Documentum Process Suite marks the integration of the process analysis and business activity monitoring software gained from EMC's June 2006 acquisition of Proactivity Inc., with EMC's existing Documentum business process management capabilities.
"The release of the Documentum Process Suite is a prime example of our ability to successfully integrate acquisitions within our existing offerings to deliver additional value to our customers in the form of complete, end-to-end information infrastructure solutions," said Balaji Yelamanchili, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content Management & Archiving at EMC. "The Documentum Process Suite enables organizations to maximize their IT investments by better leveraging information to improve business-critical processes within their enterprises."
Designed to work with the Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform, the Documentum Process Suite is uniquely positioned to help organizations build solutions for their information-rich processes. The solution allows both structured data and unstructured content to be captured and utilized to improve operational efficiency, then archived and stored to meet regulatory compliance requirements. The software also provides end-to-end process lifecycle management, with capabilities to optimize process performance at each stage in the process lifecycle, from design and analysis through execution and monitoring.
Organizations are already experiencing the benefits of the BPM suite. New York City Department of Health is implementing the Documentum Process Suite to optimize the management of vendor contracts. Hadi Makki, Chief Software Architect at New York City Department of Health said, "As we evaluated various BPM products on the market, it became clear that we needed an end-to-end solution to manage our vendor contracts, which must each go through a complex variety of review and approval processes. The Documentum Process Suite provides the ability to understand and improve the design of our processes, manage the work and inter-departmental interactions that occur within them, and monitor process performance in real time."
The EMC Documentum Process Suite provides
• Process analysis, simulation and real-time performance monitoring that enable business managers to actively understand, control and improve processes that are critical to their operations
• A scalable process execution engine that orchestrates processes involving human, systems and SOA-based integration activities for both high-volume transactional and complex collaborative applications
• Integration with EMC's comprehensive set of capabilities for handling information-rich processes, including: front-end input and capture of paper-based content; e-Forms for data input; in-process management of both structured data and unstructured content; knowledge collaboration environments; and back-end records management, archiving and storage
"Business Process Management suites represent the second generation of BPM-enabling technologies and are a natural advancement to meet end-users' growing requirements for greater degrees of process management maturity and agility," said Gartner analyst Jim Sinur, VP Distinguished Analyst. "BPM suites support business' desire to see and manage their processes across organizational boundaries and, by building in capabilities to support collaboration between IT and business users, give non-technical managers hands-on control of appropriate portions of those processes."
Availability
EMC Documentum Process Suite is available immediately. For more information on EMC Documentum BPM solutions, visit http://www.software.emc.com/bpm .
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