NowDocs BPM solution provides an advanced layered, metadata-driven, dynamic framework architecture that provides a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and integrates with an expanding suite of Microsoft products and technologies such as Office, SharePoint, BizTalk, Windows Workflow

Foundation, Office OpenXML, Forms Server, Exchange, SQL Server, Visio, InfoPath, Visual Studio, and more.

This architecture facilitates the Microsoft People-Ready vision by enabling the abstraction of business logic into reusable common services and IT assets that business manager can include in process models to build directly executable workflows and/or composite applications at the process layer, saving time and cost while greatly increasing the IT manageability and agility, making business more agile and competitive.

Industry and Vertical Focus

ALL, especially:

• Primary – Financial Services

• Secondary – Manufacturing

• Tertiary – Healthcare & Life Sciences

Functionality Selection

• Primary – Collaboration/ Knowledge Management

• Secondary – Enterprise Integration (with BizTalk)

• Tertiary – Business Intelligence

Target Audience and Business Need

• Decision Maker – CIO, COO, VP/Dir. of IT, etc

• Users – Business Analysts, BDMs, End-Users

• Need – Responsive to business changes, better integration with existing enterprise systems, better management of IT assets

• Results – Greater collaboration between business units and IT Departments, Agility, Dynamic Organization,

Reduce TCO, Increase ROI 60%)

When to engage, when not to engage

When customers (either IT or business units) look for:

• a BPM solution that meets their compliance policy

• business solutions that can allow them to quickly define and deploy workflows within their LOB applications

• a solution to manage long running, highly dynamic, ad hoc, non pre-definable business processes (e.g. new product development, dynamic exception handling, etc.)

• an architecture that can allow them to better support the ever increasing business requirements;

• solution to better manage their IT assets

• better process integration with their existing enterprise systems.

Out-of-the-Box Solution Stack

• Business Process designer on Visio with pre-defined IT assets such as integration to SharePoint, BizTalk, Web Services, Mail systems and others

• Visual SOA application builder

• Process migration, automation, simulation, modeling tool.

Solution Environment Integration

• Collaboration and Communication Suite
• Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
• InfoPath
• SharePoint Server
• SharePoint Server
• InfoPath Forms Server
• SQL Server
• BizTalk Server
• Visual Studio (.NET, C#, VB.NET, XML, Web Service, etc.)

Top Reasons to Buy Solution

For companies seeking differentiated competitiveness through:

• Increase business agility with a People-Ready BPMS;
• The ability to create and deploy highly adaptable workflows in minutes;
• Accelerate SOA success with process-aware ‘visual’ common services;
• Providing real-time self-documenting compliance;
• Managing highly dynamic, non pre-definable, ad-hoc business processes (i.e. processes that can not be converted into code in advance to create an executable. For example: new product development, on-the-fly dynamic approval, etc.)
• Empowerment of business managers to respond to changing business needs in the front office
• Enablement of IT to expose custom development as process-aware IT assets to facilitate Business/IT collaboration
• Increase IT investment ROI and IT agility

Top Reasons to Promote Solution

• BPM truly makes People Ready a reality through enabling business managers to leverage IT assets and collaborate with IT through the Microsoft Office Productivity tools (Visio, Word, etc) to Portal (SharePoint, InfoPath, etc), to integration with enterprise systems via BizTalk
• Integration with Windows Workflow Foundation
• Ultimate IW productivity solution
• BPM links Microsoft products into solution selling with tremendous pull through revenues (Windows Server, Visio, Visual Studio, SQL, SharePoint, InfoPath, BizTalk, Exchange, etc.)

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