BPM System for a Small Business Options

[WPCMS]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[rloggen]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I assume to 50K is for the total project, including services. That's not a lot in that case.

Well - a number of options:

1. You can go opensource.
- Intalio is an established player (and if your processes are document intensive, you might consider Alfresco)
- Jboss has a (somewhat limited) BPM component
- There are various other BPM open source solutions

2. You could go SAAS (Software as a Service)
Various companies are starting to provide BPM technology in an ASP/SAAS offer. Depending on your requirements, this could work.
(I have not seen SAAS voor BPM process execution yet, most are for modelling)

3. You could negotiate with a smaller vendor
Most small players are working hard on good references (which they need to get above the radar), which means they might be open for negotiations.
Consider Cordys, Appian, Pegasystems, Lombardi, Ascenten.

4. You could go Microsoft (not sure about price), Workflow Foundation + Sharepoint.

Hope this helps!

Roeland Loggen
process-transformation.blogspot.com

[WPCMS]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I assume to 50K is for the total project, including services. That's not a lot in that case.

Well - a number of options:

1. You can go opensource.
- Intalio is an established player (and if your processes are document intensive, you might consider Alfresco)
- Jboss has a (somewhat limited) BPM component
- There are various other BPM open source solutions

2. You could go SAAS (Software as a Service)
Various companies are starting to provide BPM technology in an ASP/SAAS offer. Depending on your requirements, this could work.
(I have not seen SAAS voor BPM process execution yet, most are for modelling)

3. You could negotiate with a smaller vendor
Most small players are working hard on good references (which they need to get above the radar), which means they might be open for negotiations.
Consider Cordys, Appian, Pegasystems, Lombardi, Ascenten.

4. You could go Microsoft (not sure about price), Workflow Foundation + Sharepoint.

Hope this helps!

Roeland Loggen
process-transformation.blogspot.com

Thanks! This will aleast be a start for me.
WPCMS

[rthomas]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Value Optimized Solutions specializes in building small business BPM systems that are open source with free licensing. You can visit them at www.valueoptimizedsolutions.com.

[mfrondin]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Bahwan Cybertek is a new entrant in the US BPMS market. We have been active in the Asian and Middle Eastern market since 1999 delivering products and services to large enterprises, including two-tier development (using our offshore development team in Chennai, India). We have over 300 customers worldwide, and our Cuecent ebPAC BPMS is in use at some of the Middle East's largest banks and government departments. We also have prebuilt solutions available, written in ebPAC so that they are easily configurable and changeable, with source code available. One of these is an ERP package suitable for SMBs. We are now looking for key US accounts to be reference customers, and have some ebPAC special incentive pricing available which fits inside your budget number, including training and limited consulting/development services.

For more information, please go to http://www.cuecent.com , or call our US VP of Sales, Steve Feldman, at (561) 784-5049.

Thanks,

Mark Rondinaro
Product Manager, Cuecent Products
Bahwan Cybertek
www.cuecent.com

[Will Christin]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I had once been looking for a suite that helps me for a lot of things like my business process management - a kind of knowledge based management tool that helps for rules based system. I am currently using one legislation law suite that is very good and might be a good reference to you as well.
The website for this is: http://www.easyrules.com

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[Will Christin]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I had once been looking for a suite that helps me for a lot of things like my business process management - a kind of knowledge based management tool that helps for rules based system. I am currently using one legislation law suite that is very good and might be a good reference to you as well.
The website for this is: http://www.easyrules.com

Hi, I just wondered if anyone has referred the website I had put in http://www.easyrules.com for easy business process management. This is since I am looking for few reviews on this. This is working fine where rules based management is concerned. Really good!

Cheers!

[astanwyck]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Integrify (http://www.integrify.com) offers a complete workflow/BPMS in a SAAS (Integrify OnDemand) or installed model (Integrify OnPremise.) Integrify OnDemand is a mature offering and has been available since 2006. Both large and small companies are using it for a variety of processes. Pricing is very reasonable and is well within your budget. Give it a look and try the Process Challenge where you can have your processes implemented and demonstrated back to you free of charge.

[anil.shrivastava...]

Newgen Software Technologies Limited is a market leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM), with a global footprint of about 700 installations in over 30 countries. More than 100 of these implementations are large, mission-critical solutions deployed at world's leading BFSI, BPO and Fortune Global 500 companies.

Our past offshore product development experience with our international clients like Independent Software Vendors, Software Development Companies, Original Equipment Manufacturers from USA, Germany, Japan & UK makes us feel confident that we will be able to deliver the best possible quality at a significant cost savings to you.

Strengths:

Could build a Team from 4 to 40 members with-in 2-3 months to meet Client’s growing need

Managed parallel development and delivery of 4 large size products

Parallel QA of all products, each having 10 Languages and Multi-Platform Support

Fast Track Product Development

Process Maturity to handle Joint Development

Ability to Implement Features without the availability of real H/W (MFPs)

Releasing and maintaining Customer Specific Product Versions

Timely Delivery and meeting Quality Standards

Taking complete ownership from day 0 till the Product is released in Market

Give us a call at (703) 340-8987 or (510) 870-8789 or write to us at info@newgen.net we will be glad to answer your queries.

- Anil Srivastava (+91-9818444034)

[shalini]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Hi,

SpearheadIT Solutions provides a suite of product offerings based on J2EE technologies for Business Process Management Solutions and other real time process implementations.

These are XPDL compliant Workflow Mangement and Communication Management systems which are platform independent and built on open technologies and robust scalable architecture which provides seamless integration facilities with other applications and enables ease of deployment in any IT Infrastructure

We aim to provide Business Process Management solutions to small and medium enterprises and have product and service offerings to target this segment.

You could read more on www.spearheadit.com or to me on shalini.arora@spearheadit.com for further details.

Regards,
Shalini Arora
Director - SpearheadIT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

[MadCat]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

You first made a mistake of letting your budget know. Look for the product that you want (Not all process are same and not all tools support what you want), then decide on how much you want to pay.

Goto google and search for "Workflow" and/or "Workflow software", try the products and see what fits you. These guys spend to be placed there and i am sure you will find what you wanted in a short time. Just remember that all tools have a learning cure and it narrows to what your comfortable learning/using.

[Michael]

The first step to write down what processes you want to automate and the objectives of the automation. For example, you might write:

Reduce the time it takes to resolve customer issues
Improve the quality of responses
Find out which support reps are providing the best support

The second step is to write down how you might achieve these objectives. For example, you might write:

Provide a 24/7 FAQ so that customers can find answers themselves
Have a set of standard solution to common problems that support reps can import into their answers
Provide automated surveys that allow you to determine which support reps are giving customers the best answers.

The third step is to write up usage scenarios that describe how you want the system to work before you ask vendors to demonstrate their solutions. Otherwise, they will demo how their system happens to work and try to persuade to fit a square peg into a round hole.

You want software that the vendor can actually demonstrate implementing the usage scenarios described in step 3. Ideally, one package that can do it all at a reasonable cost. Do not accept mere promises that the vendors consulting team can do what you need, or you will end up spending a lot of money trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

If you do not want to avoid future consulting fees, keep a couple of requirements in reserve and ask them to demonstrate live how their system would be configured to meet these needs. This will illustrate how easy or hard it will be for you to make changes in the future, .

[craigcameron]

Web and Flo offers comprehensive SaaS Workflow / BPM on a per user basis. You may spend as little as 10K for licenses depending on the number of users and if you want to build the applications yourself or use the existing process templates.

[Miguel]

Another option would be to leverage an open source solution :-) BonitaSoft community have just released Bonita Open Solution 5.0, a fully functional open source solution for Business Process Management.

You can download this solution at BonitaSoft Open Source BPM web site.

regards,

[Brian Reale]

You will probably want to have a look at ProcessMaker (http://www.processmaker.com) - a leading Open Source BPMS. One of the important things to look at besides the initial sticker price (free in the case of processmaker) is the cost to maintain and/or modify. Many other BPM systems can require a serious amount of overhead just to manage the system both in terms of time, know how, etc. ProcessMaker is truly modular and very simple - probably the reason why its community has grown so quickly around the world.

-brian

[Dani Tal]

I was looking for a BPM suite for a small business. I am trying to narrow down my choice by price since there are so many out there. We are a small business and have a max of $50,000 to impliment a BPM suite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Hello,

I am not sure about BPM suite but how about a set of web based workflow applications ?
Have a look at www.portalis-1.com or drop me an email dani.tal@cio-1.com

Best Regards,

Dani Tal
CTO
CIO-1
www.cio-1.com