BPM Assessment

Supporting the MSE Market through the Benefits of Business Process Management (BPM)

Offering: Microsoft’s BizTalk Server enables the integration of disparate business systems and human workflow allowing companies to implement solutions which realign and restructure overall business processes to automate manual processes that interfere with an organization's ability to maximize efficiency and support continuous, sustainable improvements. Identifying these business processes and their impact if they are automated can be a daunting task for someone who is not experienced with BPM. Omicron’s "Business Process Management (BPM) Assessment" is designed to enable Omicron to perform the correct analysis to identify business processes that are candidates for automation. Omicron will then develop a systems architecture based upon Microsoft’s BizTalk Server that will support the automation of the identified business process. Finally, Omicron will provide an implementation plan that will provide the customer with total implementation costs, timelines, resource requirements and an ROI.

Program Value Statement: Finally Business Process Management (BPM) for the Masses has arrived! Why should only the largest enterprises benefit from BPM? Today, Microsoft’s BizTalk 2004 makes it is possible for companies of all shapes and sizes to:

• Successfully automate repeatable businesses processes
• Automate decision-making processes
• Integrate business rules into processes empowering business users with the ability to make changes and see the processes in action
• Increase the transparency and traceability of conforming to business regulations and practices
• Rapidly increase the deployment of business applications
• Increase the speed of business system integration

BizTalk 2004 is the newest platform from Microsoft that will enable companies to implement solutions which realigns and restructures overall business processes enabling the automation of manual processes that interfere with an organization's ability to maximize efficiency and support continuous, sustainable improvements.

Consider the following possibilities:

• Capture data easily from mobile workforces
• Automate workflow to make processes repeatable and event driven
• Centralize and control internal databases
• Bring the disparate business applications into one collection
• Automate HR functions and employee questions
• Put useful information at the fingertips of your staff

General Offering Description: The following is a general description of the “Business Process Assessment” offering.

A. Business Process Assessment

Omicron will work with the client to understand their current business and business processes. Omicron will then analyze the business processes and determine which ones are candidates for automation. Omicron will then create the high level process flow for the selected business processes. Finally, Omicron will prioritize the selected business processes starting with the one with the greatest ROI potential.

B. Solution Architecting

Omicron will develop a high-level Business Process Management solutions architecture which is based upon Microsoft’s BizTalk Server. This will require Omicron to:

• Understand Client’s Existing Infrastructure
• From the information gathered in the Business Assessment step identify processes that are candidates for automation
• Develop a representative High Level System’s Architecture which will include the integration of BizTalk into the Client System’s Environment

Omicron will develop a Straw-Man systems architecture for Client. The architecture is not intended to be a compressive and detailed listing of all the uses for BizTalk within Client, however it is intended to be a representative architecture demonstrating how BizTalk will automate the targeted business processes. This High-Level architecture will be documented in a Power Point Presentation. Omicron will then meet with Client to review the Architecture.

C. Implementation Planning

Upon completion of the solutions architecture, Omicron will work with Client to develop a phased implementation plan for implementing of the Business Process Management Platform within the Client’s environment. The implementation plan will identify the required phases, steps, time, costs and resources. The implementation plan will also provide a project ROI to demonstrate the value of the project.

Program Targeted Focus: For Mid-Size Enterprise companies who are Microsoft Centric or moving in that platform direction and who have many business processes.

Who Should Participate: CIOs and Application Development Managers are routinely chartered to identify opportunities and methods to add efficiencies to the business and create true ROI from technology implementations. Secondly CEOs, Business Sales Management and Marketing Management have recognized this technology as a way to integrate internal, partner, customer and vendor activities to gain organizational efficiencies, provide better customer service and develop an impressive competitive advantage.

Omicron’s Other BizTalk Offerings:

• Microsoft Sponsored BizTalk Architectural Design Sessions
• Enterprise BizTalk Architectures
• BizTalk Migrations and Upgrades
• BizTalk Implementations
  • Requirements
  • Design
  • Configuration / Coding
  • Testing
  • Production Support