Savvion BusinessManager
Improve Business Process Management (BPM) Right from the Start
Progress® Savvion BusinessManager, industry leading BPM software, is the easiest way for your teams to drive business process innovation. It gives everyone the tools they need to rapidly create and optimize process-driven solutions and flexible interfaces to manage daily work efficiently with real-time visibility into business processes. Improving business process management today will help you achieve operational responsiveness, greater ROI, and better customer experiences.
Savvion BusinessManager is the fastest way for your business to turn ideas into real world solutions. Our unique approach not only addresses the entire lifecycle of a business process—from idea generation and modeling all the way through deployment and optimization—but it also breaks down the barriers between people with different skill-sets. It’s not enough to rollout solutions quickly, it’s also vital to provide tools that get everyone in the business committed to process improvement and business agility.
Savvion BusinessManager extends leadership in BPM by lowering the cost of assembling and running process-driven solutions. At the center of Savvion BusinessManager are six major tools:
- Savvion BPM Server - The engine that drives your business processes. It is a highly scalable and reliable set of Java-based engines that manage running business process applications. The Savvion BPM Server provides a rich set of services for executing and managing business process applications, including integration, workflow, and business rules.
- Savvion BPM Portal – The tools you need to manage daily work and respond to problems and changing business conditions. Savvion BPM Portal is the window into your running process applications. With it you can work on prioritized task lists, view real-time process performance data, and continually "tweak the dials" to make your process workflows meet your company’s objectives.
- Savvion Business Expert – Delivers dashboard visibility into process anomalies so you can instantly know where to target improvement efforts. It provides business-driven, web-based analytics so you don’t have to rely on IT to identify problems, analyze causes, manage metrics, and optimize processes in order to improve business agility.
- Savvion Business Rules Management Server – A rich development environment that gives your application developers and technology savvy business users the ability to define and create efficient rules-based process applications. With Savvion BRMS rules can be created externally to the process and used as part of your process model, leveraging the data from the process model itself.
- Savvion Process Asset Management Server – A complete integrated solution for your business analyst teams to manage and reuse a library of process models and associated components such as adapters, data slots and application forms. It provides business-driven, web-based analytics so you don’t have to rely on IT to identify problems, analyze causes, manage metrics, and optimize processes in order to improve business agility.
- Savvion Process Modeler – Put a high-quality business process designer at the fingertips of your business people, and makes collaboration fast and easy. In minutes, business users can map out how business processes are working today and then run test scenarios to find bottlenecks – all without burdening IT.
Customers of Savvion BusinessManager report faster adoption from users, faster implementation of solutions, higher ROI and lower cost of ownership in their BPM deployments - all reasons why some of the world's largest companies turn to Savvion BusinessManager to help develop and manage their business processes. Some specific key benefits include:
- Scalability
- High Availability
- Greater Performance
- Open Data Architecture
- Business Empowerment
- Low Total Cost of Ownership
- Support for Business and IT Collaboration
Savvion BusinessManager provides the most comprehensive BPM software suite for development of business process solutions. It includes the integrated development environment to define integration to other systems and turn your process models into running process applications. It also includes the process server to run the process applications and web portal for end users to perform task and work management.
Savvion BusinessManager enables business users and project teams to define their processes, improve their business by improving their business processes, rapidly deploy solutions that deliver real-time visibility into business processes, and achieve high ROI with low TCO.
- Business Process Analysis
Underlying your business is undoubtedly a set of processes that define how your business operates, how it generates revenue, and how you support your customers. In order to manage these business processes, organizations must first capture and articulate them. Business process analysis (BPA) and collaboration are key elements in making sure that business processes are a very strategic asset and intellectual property of your company. Savvion BusinessManager enables business process modeling and analysis through Savvion Process Modeler and Savvion Process Asset Manager.
- Business Process Improvement
The first step in any business performance improvement strategy is to articulate the current process. To improve a business process, you need BPM that allows you to monitor the process in real time and provide you with the information you need. Savvion BPM suite guides users by helping to identify the problems in the process and recommending corrective actions to improve the processes in real time. Savvion Business Expert makes practical business improvement possible and enables people to immediately contribute to top-line growth and measurable business value.
- Business Application Management
To meet their constantly changing needs, your organization must be able to create and deploy applications quickly, while leveraging limited resources efficiently. Savvion Business Process Management System (BPMS) provides scalable development tools for all your business applications. Its easy-to-use and powerful integrated business application development environment allows you to quickly create agile business applications in as little as 30 days. Savvion Business Rules Management Server provides all the tools you need to create efficient rules-based process applications. The result is substantially reduced time to deployment and overall cost of ownership of your rules-based process applications.
Savvion BusinessManager allows the enterprise to move beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software and services that make them more competitive, agile, and efficient. Additional technical features of Savvion BPM suite include:
- Microsoft Certification - Savvion BusinessManager provides the additional assurance of .Net certified BPM. Savvion BusinessManager passed the rigorous .NET Connected test suite, ensuring our software will integrate into .NET environments. BusinessManager addresses the business process lifecycle from beginning to end. By tightly integrating modeling, simulation, deployment, management and process improvement through .Net certified BPM software, Savvion BusinessManager helps organizations continually improve, grow, and prosper.
- Web Services – With Savvion BusinessManager, you can instantly add automated Web service processes such as order and quotation services to existing business processes applications. You can then publish your own business processes as services in the UDDI directory. Once you've published your Web services in the directory, you can conduct online transactions with internal teams or with other businesses. In addition, you can manage these extended processes through Savvion BusinessManager and integrate your processes with those of other businesses to save you time and enhance productivity.
In January, Progress Software announced our acquisition of Savvion - a pioneer and leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) technology. Below are just some of the comments that industry analysts have made.
"As enterprises increase their focus on operational responsiveness – and most of them are -- there is a need to build event-driven systems that adapt continuously to current and trending business conditions. We call these 'business navigation systems,' which converge visibility, event processing and BPM software. Vendors offering all three capabilities as a system are in a much stronger position to partner with their customers to build these new types of high value applications."
- Maureen Fleming, Program Director of IDC's Business Process Management and Middleware Research Service
"Progress Software's acquisition of Savvion represents the merger of the two key ingredients required for intelligent processes - CEP (sense) and BPM (respond)."
– Clay Richardson, Forrester Research
"In the case of Progress and Savvion, the acquisition will focus on combining data and processes to provide greater insight, visibility, and adaptability for the business."
– Clay Richardson, Forrester Research
"The most exciting aspect of the Progress/Savvion deal is that it highlights an emerging trend around what Forrester has coined as "dynamic business platforms." ... With the emerging trend of dynamic business platforms, teams will have better integrated tools, requiring less development - in other words, business users and stakeholders will have more capabilities to configure and adapt the solutions they want instead of relying heavily on IT."
– Clay Richardson, Forrester Research
"Business Process professionals should view the Progress/Savvion deal as further validation that software vendors are committed to providing better tools and capabilities to support business-led transformation and process improvement initiatives. Additionally, Business Process professionals should view this deal as an opportunity and catalyst to broaden their view of business process management. Instead of viewing BPM as a discipline only focused on automating cross-functional business processes, Process professionals should identify the other disciplines, skills, and components they need to beef up their support for dynamic business."
– Clay Richardson, Forrester Research
"For Progress, this (acquisition) is without doubt a smart move."
– Neil Ward Dutton, MWD Advisors
"The obvious challenge: until now, Progress had a number of assets (Apama, Actional, DataXtend, etc) to help companies capture and analyze intelligence about changing conditions and customer interactions – but it had no direct way to tie this to a system to help customers drive responses in business processes. The Savvion acquisition plugs this gap – and at the same time, it helps Progress more directly engage business executives in conversation."
– Neil Ward Dutton, MWD Advisors
"I agree this is a smart move for Progress: a good fit of products with minimal overlap, directly addressing some of the challenges that they’re hearing from their customers in terms of achieving operational responsiveness. The existing suite of Progress products allows for determining what happened within an organization – a rear-view mirror approach – but not much that allows the organization to quickly change how they’re doing things in order to drive efficiency or respond to changing conditions. Bringing BPM into the fold allows them to change that, primarily through tying Progress' Apama CEP with Savvion BPM, but also by leveraging the rest of the Progress SOA and ESB infrastructure, including data and application integration."
– Sandy Kemsley, Independent Analyst, Blog
"The BPM+CEP equation is becoming increasingly important as organizations focus on operational responsiveness, and I think that it’s particularly significant that Progress appointed Bates – formerly co-founder and CTO of Apama before their acquisition by Progress – to the CTO position during the time when they must have been negotiating to acquire Savvion. Clearly, Progress sees BPM+CEP as an important mix, too."
– Sandy Kemsley, Independent Analyst, Blog
"Savvion BPM completes the three key building blocks for Progress’ vision of operational responsiveness. Savvion was selected for their event-centricity, the breadth of their capabilities (including their work on BRMS and document management for instance), their vertical industry solutions and the overall business-centricity. They also liked the enterprise-class customers and projects they saw in the Savvion client base as well as the cultural fit."
- James Taylor, Independent Analyst, Decision Management blog
"Overall I think this is a good thing – the need for a platform that combines Process Management, Decision Management, Event Management and Performance Management is clear and this announcement moves Progress/Savvion closer to this vision."
- James Taylor, Independent Analyst, Decision Management Blog
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