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Technology provides the foundation for Business Process Management solutions. Two important types of technology are important for BPM, system-centric technologies and people-centric technologies.
 System-Centric Technologies - When discussing BPM solutions, a great deal of emphasis is placed on systems and enterprise application integration (EAI). This makes sense because connecting processes that span multiple departments and IT systems requires data and information to be passed from one application or database to another.
People-centric Technologies – While are important, business process management is ultimately about people. Workers in a knowledge economy must make tough decisions, sometimes without complete information. They need to collaborate with co-workers, know when to make exceptions, and deal with unexpected changes. A new breed of people-centric technologies is required to enable the adaptive and collaborative requirements of BPM.
Extending the Value of Your IT Infrastructure
Ultimus delivers both system-centric and people-centric technologies to ensure that Ultimus BPM-base solutions extend the value of your existing applications and create an intuitive, flexible working environment that grows and changes with your organization. Specifically, Ultimus supports many important architectures and types of applications including:
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – Ultimus has an open architecture that supports organizations implementing SOA.
Composite Applications & Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) – Many of our customers have used Ultimus BPM to drive value from composite applications or to consumer services from and EAB.
Application Servers – Organizations use Ultimus to compliment their application development platform and add the capability to deliver true cross-enterprise processes.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) – Ultimus provides a complete set of system and people-centric capabilities to manage the entire business process.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – Our customers use Ultimus to automate the front and back-ends of their existing ERP systems, and to add a sense of time, accountability and visibility that the ERP system alone cannot provide.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) – Ultimus integrates with and consumes information from many ECM packages so that the documents can become an important part of a complete business process. |