Significance of Rapid Solutions Development to Business Process Management

TL;DR

This paper discusses how rapid solutions development tools are transforming business process management by enabling quicker benefits and reducing the need for custom software, thus shifting traditional approaches.

Contribution

It highlights the emergence and impact of BPM RSD tools, showing how they fundamentally change BPM solution development and deployment.

Findings

BPM RSD tools enable faster implementation of BPM solutions.

These tools reduce the reliance on custom software development.

They are contributing to mainstream adoption of BPM.

Abstract

Business process management (BPM) is moving from a niche market into the mainstream. One of the factors leading to this transformation is the emergence of very powerful rapid solutions development tools for creating BPM solutions (BPM RSD). It has been widely recognized that this facility is important for achieving benefits quickly. Similar benefits are attributed to the agile software movement, but BPM RSD differs in that the objective is to reduce the need for custom software development. As the BPM RSD features of some of the current business process management suites (BPMS) products have matured, additional benefits have emerged that fundamentally change the way we approach solutions in this space.