PNMsoft Launches On-Demand Assist for Business Process Outsourcers and Project Managers. PNMsoft has launched a solution called On-Demand Assist to enable Change Management for Business Process Outsourcers (BPO) and Project Managers. The goal of On-Demand Assist is to drive more effective communication between IT and its business counterparts, automatically respond to changes and increase control through ownership and full audit of the change process.

Join us on 5th March 2010 at the Microsoft Victoria Office in London for a free event to learn how Microsoft and PNMsoft provide innovative solutions enable you to cut costs, manage expenses, become more efficient and comply with regulations, all through the use of Business Intelligence (BI) and Process Automation.

4th February 2010, Wembley Stadium, London UK - Microsoft and PNMsoft (Microsoft Partner of the year 2009 finalist) introduce the next generation of technologies to assist Systems Integrators and Project Management Offices, with easy to use power technology to aid CHANGE - A solutions framework set up to gauge the success of the project. Come and listen to the PNMsoft On-Demand Assist story and see the Framework in action.

Gartner's Jim Sinur Says: Well its time to think about breaking into the 2010 budgets, but the question is what should you spend your hard fought budgets on? There is enough proof out there that BPM delivers cost savings and companies are increasing their investment. Is this an illusion or is this real?

The market for BPM Suites (BPMS) software according to the Gartner Group is projected to be $5.11 Billion by 2011. The report says that total software revenues of BPM products reached nearly $1.7 billion by 2006 and exhibited the characteristics of a mainstream market - with stable vendors, vendor consolidation and rapid user adoption

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of .NET classes, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio.

The act radically changed corporate governance and reporting obligations for all publicly traded companies, and significantly increased personal accountability for the organisations officers, securities analysts, auditors and legal counsel. New compliance requirements mandate that CEOs and CFOs personally certify financial statements and affirm they are responsible for disclosure controls and procedures at all levels of their organisation. The act also requires an annual evaluation by the company's independent auditor of internal controls and procedures for financial reporting, to be published in the company's annual report

MiFID, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, is a major part of the European Union's Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP), which is designed to create a single market in financial services.BPM is the technology platform that enables MiFID compliance. BPM is the technology platform that solves the problems that arise from the organisational, conduct of business, transparency and transaction reporting requirements of MiFID. The system was architected to evolve as regulatory and methodological requirements evolve and will continue to meet ongoing, changing needs. BPM for MiFID automates the management of compliance rules and behaviors for the company

Management of Risk is a management methodology that provides for managing uncertainty, integrating concepts of strategic planning, operations management, and internal control.A risk is defined as a possible event or circumstance that can have negative influences on an organisation.Its impact can be on the very existence, the resources (human and capital), the products and services, or the customers of the organisation.

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious Awards for business performance. They recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies. They are presented in three separate categories: International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. The Awards are made each year by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister, who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives of Government, industry and commerce, and the trade unions.

The World Bank Group has published their annual "Doing Business" report that ranks 181 countries on how friendly their regulatory climate is to entrepreneurs. The report provides a quantitative measure of regulations for starting a business as they apply to domestic small and medium-size enterprises. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. The ease of doing business index means the regulatory environment is conducive to the operation of business

Forrester's James Kobielus writes in his latest blog about the absence of change to the business vision - transformation, optimization and agility..

The climate is right for innovation and organizations that dont change may lose their edge or even disappear. Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat. The current crisis (burning platform) is a great driver for innovation.

Gartner's Jim Sinur writes about reasons leaders are looking at processes for savings. Processes are in the critical path of business change. The need for process understanding and automation will create significant business process management activity. Good business leaders understand that it is wise to invest during down times, so that when they get busy again, they will not have the opportunity to focus resources anywhere, but supporting the business operationally.

Forrester's Zach Thomas wrote about Quantifying Employee Performance Management explaining the value to clients who are looking to better manage performance, identify top and bottom performers, implement pay-for-performance, especially in this economy..

The UK Government long-term economic goal is to secure and maintain economic stability, in order to achieve its objective of a fair society where there is security and opportunity for all. The world economy was hit by a succession of shocks during 2007 and 2008, with the financial crisis of late 2008 leading to a steep and synchronised global economic downturn. Recessions are being experienced in most of the worlds major advanced economies and the world economy is set to contract by one and a quarter per cent in 2009, the first fall in the post-war period. The Government is delivering a comprehensive package to support economic recovery in the UK, while ensuring sound public finances. Budget 2009 provides further targeted support to households and businesses

For the fourth time, Forbes Magazine has published its annual Best Countries for Business ranking. For the second straight year Denmark has taken the No.1 spot. Forbes analyzed business climates in each of 127 national economies, focusing on degrees of trade freedom, monetary freedom like the right to participate in free and fair elections, or freedom of expression and organization

Great Place to Work Institute Europe has published the 50 Best Large Workplaces in Europe 2009. For the second consecutive year, Microsoft won the Best Large Workplaces category with all 16 national branches included in the study. The Greek designer and manufacturer of swimming pools, Piscines Ideales, won the Best Small and Medium-Sized Workplaces category. The criteria is based on the relationship between employees and management, employees and their jobs/company, and the relationship between employees and other employees

Cost-cutting is an essential component of survival. Companies are looking to save money, and cutting salaries yields larger savings. Restructuring correctly is not an easy task, nor a decision to be taken lightly. Before you start firing employees, here are three alternatives to consider: Automate decision making and manual tasks, Make existing employees more efficient, Re-evaluate employees that do not contribute

We are living in interesting times. In the blink of an eye old orders are swept away (you remember Lehman Brothers, don't you?). Companies everywhere are being forced to improve the way they do business in order to survive and to flourish. Managers are trying to make their organisations fitter and smarter. All these changes need to be implemented at a rapid pace and with limited budgets. But how

From time-to-time, I get called in to help with a project that is in crisis. We've all been there. A project is running late, over schedule, over budget. The customer is starting to growl. Team spirit is low, the blame game starts. You step in. This usually involves working hand in glove with the project manager for few weeks until things are running smoothly again. The team get their fighting spirit back again. The project manager is grateful. The customer has stopped growling. Pats on the back from everyone. Hero leaves stage

The Prime Minister's Office has released a statement of the top ten outcomes from the G20 London Summit.

In the last 12 months, we all have seen a surge in SharePoint implementations. I think that just about every deployment of our BPM platform has included Microsoft SharePoint. From my point of view, this solution is great, enabling us to add collaboration to our BPM offering. SharePoint does have basic workflow functionality that enables programmers to build simple document approval workflows, but is missing the complexity to create real-life corporate level workflows. We usually get called in to supply the missing functionality.

We have been there before. You are meeting a potential customer to promote a BizTalk solution. But what to show them? The mapper ?, the orchestration designer? We can show BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) but that is not the BizTalk core functionality and might confuse the customer who already use several BI tools.

Fortune Magazine published its annual list of the worlds most admired companies 2009. The Top 5 are Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Toyota Motor, Google, Johnson and Johnson...

Research has shown that CIOs continually have to ensure that business demands are aligned with available IT resources and budget constraints. It is generally accepted that at least 80 percent of IT resources and budgets are spent on ongoing maintenance. This creates a dilemma for CIOs and IT departments who have to find ways of reducing operational costs, and designing and delivering solutions more effectively...

Companies must use skilled employees to do the simulation properly. I understand the logic in advocating the use of simulation tools to complete a full BPM cycle, but I tend to disagree about the understatement of skills required to run simulation properly..

PNMsoft, the market leading Human Centric Workflow and BPM vendor announces its Mortgage Industry Solution to support the Financial Services Lending Sector helping these organisations improve its services to the Independent Financial Advisor community. The Solution will dramatically shorten Decision In Principle Loan cycle times providing automation and Straight Through Processing (STP) based on embedded business logic and business rules to enhance compliance and regulation while at the same time improving Customer Service and providing IFA user friendly services.

A common myth is that technology has not yet advanced enough to create a paperless office. Nothing could be further from the truth. The main obstacle is not technology, but people. Replacing paper with electronic forms is easy, reduces business costs and wasted time. Not only is a paperless organisation more eco-friendly, but it also benefits in increased organisational efficiency, increased business visibility and enables you to abide to compliance, legal and regulatory requirements..

PNMsoft's analysts today highlighted the top 5 trends and technologies that will be strategic for most organisations in the business sector. These trends will have a significant impact on all organisations in the coming year: business intelligence (BI), green IT, workflow as a service (saas), government will play an increasing role, and business optimisation.....

This article deals with common software myths about business process management - BPM is workflow, BPM is only for complex processes, BPM is only for programmers, BPM is expensive, BPM projects are long term projects.....

Gartner, the leading analyst and information technology research company has published the top ten business and technology priorities for 2009. The business priority, Improving Business Processes, is the top business priority with more than 57 percent of CIOs reporting this as one of their top five business priorites, this year. Improving Business Processes has been the number one IT business priority since its introduction to the CIO Agenda survey in 2005.

The Financial Service Authority (FSA) called this week for banks to invest in their IT systems as part of its proposals to beef up the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which insures customer savings in the event of a financial collapse, and made the following recommendations

Implementing a BPM project follows the well defined principles and methods of any IT project, but with additional caveats: Understand the capabilities of the BPM software and what you want your project to achieve. It is important to establish clearly what the BPM software can accomplish and the benefits it brings to the organisation

The public sector today faces a wide variety of challenges, including the need to improve organisational efficiency, minimize risks, enforce organisational policies and reduce internal process complexity. Managers are required to respond faster, streamline operations and automate manual tasks. BPM and workflow automation has become a powerful combination in helping the public sector and government agencies meet their organisational missions. BPM in the public sector comes in many forms and may include internal administration processes, constituent relationship management, economic development, case management, disaster centres, help desk complaint and enquiries

Until now, the ability to create workflow flowcharts has been the stronghold of experts using professional tools and high-level programming capabilities. In a modern organisation, reducing the development time for a new workflow process once a need has been identified can mean the difference between a valuable asset and a no longer relevant white elephant. The usual forced separation between analysis and development drains time and manpower resources, while making the entire project even more cumbersome

Workflow is the definition, execution and automation of business processes where tasks, information or documents are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. Organisations use workflows to coordinate tasks between people and synchronise data between systems, with the ultimate goal of improving organisational efficiency, responsiveness and profitability.Workflows makes processes more efficient, compliant, agile, and visible by ensuring that every process step is explicitly defined, monitored over time, and optimized for maximum productivity. Given optimal, up-to-the-minute process data, managers and employees can take quicker action and make smarter decisions

Growing a business in difficult economic times can seem like an impossible task. Many businesses that once thrived are now introducing cost-cutting measures or making staff redundant in order to stay afloat. Customers can also be harder to find while securing finance is one of the companys greatest challenges because many banks have altered their lending criteria and boosted the cost of borrowing on overdrafts and business loans. But a recession can also present opportunities for a company to tighten its spending patterns, improve customer service and even find new markets for goods

Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), one of the fastest growing software markets, offers what could be the most effective solution for improving processes, increasing efficiency, and complying with regulation, without incurring overhead or using the resource-draining double-systems approach

Workflow software as a Service (SaaS) is a model of software deployment where the workflow server is hosted at the workflow vendor, and the workflow functionality is provided to customers across the internet as a rented service

In every crisis situation, whether induced by war, terror or natural disasters, the ability to act decisively, correctly and fast is vital

In a competitive business environment, management of an organisation's financial assets is the key to optimal business results. Tracking expenses, managing purchased items, and focused monitoring of suppliers and subcontractors can be effectively carried out

The financial industry today faces a wide variety of challenges, including the need to improve profitability, reduce business process complexity, and gain better business insight in order to stay on top of their industry. Financial managers must respond to business events in real-time and looking forward to the new financial climate - challenges will get a lot more complex

A combined BPM solution responds to the needs raised by the utilization of Managed Service resources: facilitating communications between the customer and the provider, providing ongoing real-time information, managing change requests and dynamic requirements, and integrating different teams into a single streamlined system

BPM for EPM is an integrated set of software components, templates and best practices guides customised specifically for businesses implementing BPM initiatives across their organisation. Leveraging the power of SEQUENCE BPM, the BPM for EPM programme helps project managers and IT professionals manage BPM projects more effectively , accurately track the financial impact of their efforts to date, optimally utilise human resources, administer BPM tools, and share knowledge gathered across the enterprise

CRM solutions are evolving and combining with other business application functionality as organisations see the value of linking a business process management tool to their sales and other CRM applications to automate and improve more complex processes. Organisations are beginning to see the value of linking a business process management tool to their sales and other CRM applications to automate and improve more complex processes