Are You Green?

Today's financial volatility has an effect on all of our daily lives:  the cost of coming and going has never been so high.  High fuel costs have caused increases across the consumer products chain. From a business perspective, the cost of doing business is measurably higher.  More, now than ever, is it important to ensure we spend each of our business dollars wisely.

Ultimus believes practicing Green Initiatives is a sensible and economical way to ensure company expenses are not only well spent, but also spent in the most eco-friendly way.  We are proud to state the following internal Green Initiatives are practiced today:

• PRODUCT SALES: We strive to offer as many product demos and deep dives over the internet rather than spend the gas / fuel to travel onsite. With today's offerings through WebEx / LiveMeeting / etc, this approach is often the most convenient.
• PRODUCT DELIVERY: We offer all Ultimus customers the product and product literature electronically as downloads through ultimus.com (rather than CDs and paper manuals).
• PRODUCT SUPPORT: As an international company with offices across the world, rather than require most of our Support and PS resources to travel daily to/from the office, we offer a virtual office working environment (and a virtual professional services deliverable model).
• PRODUCT TRAINING: Our new entire BPMS E-Learning offers the ability to be fully trained on Ultimus Adaptive BPM Suite without the gas/fuel cost of travelling onsite. The online portal for customers and partners allows users to access important training tools, product updates and information.

Until the market achieves some degree of stability, it is challenging to determine how much your spending efforts will return to you in earnings.  Moreover, going forward in a modern day technology era, we should all embrace new ways to conduct business in smarter and more economical ways.  Today's internet provides advantages and conveniences we have never experienced in the past.  If used to their full extent, they can add to your company's bottom line. Internet-based training, remote support and professional services, and a connected end-user community can significantly help to improve the time to automate, manage, and optimize BPM operations.

What are you doing in your business to encourage Green Initiatives?