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Business Process
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A Guide to Navigating the Process Minefield
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Section 1: Management Summary
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1.1 Management Summary
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Section 2: Business Issues
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2.1 Report Structure
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2.2 BPM Hype Aims to Create a Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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2.3 Definitions and Positioning
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2.4 Why BPM, Why Now?
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2.5 Limitations
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2.6 Conclusions
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Section 3: Technology Issues
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3.1 The Integration Stack
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3.2 Anatomy of a Business Process
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3.3 BPM Components
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3.4 Application Integration
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3.5 The Impact of Web Services and SOAs
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3.6 The Importance of Modelling
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3.7 Verticalisation
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3.8 Conclusions
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Section 4: Strategies for Success
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4.1 Review of the Key Issues
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4.2 BPM - Just What Can and Can't it Do?
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4.3 Selecting Processes for BPM
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4.4 Roadmap
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4.5 Models and Architectures
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4.6 Conclusions
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Section 5: Market Issues
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5.1 Market Drivers
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5.2 Market Overview
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5.3 Futures
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5.4 Conclusions
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Section 6: Tables
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6.1 Butler Group Business Process Management Features Matrix
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6.2 Butler Group Business Process Management Product Capability Diagrams
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6.3 Butler Group Business Process Management Lifecycle Positions
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Section 7: Comparisons
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7.1 Product Comparisons
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7.2 Vendor Strategies
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Section 8: Technology Audits
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BISIL - Enj
153
FileNet - FileNet P8 for BPM V2.0.1
163
Fuego - Fuego
175
Fujitsu Software Corporation - Interstage Business Process Manager V6.1
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HandySoft Corporation - BizFlow庐v8.7
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IBM - WebSphere Business Integration
211
Metastorm - e-Work Version 6
227
Plexus division of BancTec - eFIRST process V1.2
239
SeeBeyond - ICAN Suite 5.0
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Staffware - The Staffware Process Suite V2
263
TIBCO - BusinessWorks Workflow
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Ultimus - Ultimus BPM Suite version 6.0
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Vitria - Vitria:BusinessWare
299
webMethods - webMethods BPM Solution
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