An example of a business workflow process using Business Process Modeling Notation.

For 2006, $ 9. 6 billion of revenue came from the Americas ( Canada, Latin America, and the United States ); $ 8 billion from Europe, Middle East, and Africa ; $ 1. 5 billion from Asia-Pacific ; Services ' revenue was: Infrastructure $ 12 billion, Applications Software $ 5. 9 billion, Business Process Outsourcing $ 3 billion and all other $ 421 million.

* Industry Services, including Business Process Outsourcing ( BPO )-addresses the core business challenges of clients in five key industries: healthcare, transportation, communications, government, and financial services, among others.

The change being undertaken in some organizations is to switch to Automated Business Process ( ABP ) software which generates complete systems.

In June 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative ( BPMI. org ) and OMG announced the merger of their respective Business Process Management ( BPM ) activities to form the Business Modeling and Integration Domain Task Force ( BMI DTF ).

* OCEB-OMG Certified Expert in Business Process Management ( BPM )

; Contingency Fee Based Audit: Business Process Outsourcing BPO, telecom consultant companies can provide a contingency fee based independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the compliance of telecom service providers with telecommunication contracts and State and Federal Tariffs.

* Event-driven process chain, a concept in Business Process Modeling

# Business Process Reengineering

* Ryan K. L. Ko, Stephen S. G. Lee, Eng Wah Lee ( 2009 ) Business Process Management ( BPM ) Standards: A Survey.

In: Business Process Management Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

* Layna Fischer: Excellence in Practice, Volume V: Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Business Process Management, ISBN 0-9703509-5-3

Human Interactions: The Heart and Soul of Business Process Management.

* Michael Jackson, Graham Twaddle: Business Process Implementation: Building Workflow Systems, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-17768-4

* Business Process Modelling vs. Workflow Management

In 1995, Harvard Business School authors Richard L. Nolan and David C. Croson released Creative Destruction: A Six-Stage Process for Transforming the Organization.

* Bob Adams, Process Control Outlet, Business Development Manager

Many computer systems are available in the commercial marketplace that address the various aspects of Business Process Management.

Most address one specific set of functionality ; for instance, some allow the processes to be mapped ( see Business Process Mapping ) and documented ( such as Visio ); others allow for simulations to take place ( such as ARIS ).

These facilities are all handled by true Automated Business Process systems.

The Business of Data Vault Modeling Second Edition ( 2010 ) Dan linstedt, ISBN 978-1-4357-1914-9

Business Modeling is an important tool to capture, design, innovate and transform the business.

Business rules can be expressed in formal languages such as Unified Modeling Language, Z notation, Business Process Execution Language, Business Process Modeling Notation, or the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules ( SBVR ).

* Business Process Modeling Notation ( BPMN ) is an example of a Process Modeling language.

** Business Modeling

# Business Modeling: The information flow among business functions is defined by answering questions like what information drives the business process, what information is generated, who generates it, where does the information go, who process it and so on.

* Business Process Modeling Notation

* Business Modeling Forum

For instance, the Business Process Modeling Notation is a Business Process Modeling technique that can be used for drawing business processes in a workflow.

Business process management ( BPM ) and business process reengineering are interrelated, but not identical .< ref > Jörg Becker, Martin Kugeler, Michael Rosemann ( eds.

Business Process Change: 2nd Ed, A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals.

In 1984 he founded IDS Scheer, a Business Process Management ( BPM ) software company, which is widely regarded as the founder of the BPM industry.

* 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites BPM

* Apache ODE ( Orchestration Director Engine ) is a WS-BPEL 1. 1 and 2. 0 compliant business process management ( BPM ) engine that supports two communication layers: one based on Apache Axis2 ( Web Services HTTP transport ) and another one based on the Java Business Integration standard ( using Apache ServiceMix ).

* Microsoft System Center Orchestrator contains an orchestration engine which can be used for IT Process Automation as well as Business process management ( BPM ), allowing developers to quickly orchestrate complex IT and business processes involving multiple disparate systems.

Skelta BPM is an enterprise wide Business Process Management and Advanced workflow solutions product.

* On February 2, 2011, OpenText announced the acquisition of Metastorm Inc. a provider of Business Process Management ( BPM ), Business Process Analysis ( BPA ), and Enterprise Architecture ( EA ) software, further expanding its ECM portfolio capabilities with process management functionality including the ability to bring together business and IT to discover, model, analyze, and optimize business processes.

* HP Software Business Availability Center / Business Process Monitor ( BAC / BPM )

* Activiti, an open source Business Process Management ( BPM ) Platform

* Business performance management ( BPM )

* 2008 Placed in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites ( BPM )

* Ryan K. L. Ko, Stephen S. G. Lee, Eng Wah Lee ( 2009 ) Business Process Management ( BPM ) Standards: A Survey.

* Business process management ( BPM )

More recently, the concept of Business Process Management ( BPM ) has gained major attention in the corporate world and can be considered as a successor to the BPR wave of the 1990s, as it is evenly driven by a striving for process efficiency supported by information technology.