BPM Definition
BPM, or business process management, is a term that has evolved over the past few years: from software to suite to system.
- BPM Software - Tools that automate, execute, and monitor business processes from beginning to end by connecting people to people, applications to applications, and people to applications. [ learn more ]
- BPM Suite - Technology that delivers a variety of process, knowledge, and analytics functionality in a unified package, enabling organizations to quickly and efficiently build composite process applications. [ learn more ]
- BPM System - A management practice that provides for governance of a business's process environment toward the goal of improving agility and operational performance.¹ [ learn more ]
¹ Gartner, Michael James Melenovsky, Jim Sinur, Janelle B. Hill, David W. McCoy, Business Process Management: Preparing for the Process-Managed Organization, June 2005.