Designing Efficient BPM Applications. A Process-Based Guide for Beginners

Looking for efficiency gains in your business? If you…re a business analyst, this practical guide will show you how to design effective business process management (BPM) applications. Every business uses business processes-these everyday tasks help you gain and retain customers, stay profitable, and keep your operations infrastructure functioning.BPM specialists Christine McKinty and Antoine Mottier show you step-by-step how to turn a simple business procedure into an automated, process-based application. Using hands-on examples, you…ll quickly learn how to create an online process that…s easy to use. Each chapter builds on earlier material.You don…t have to have any programming experience to design business processes-and if you have skills in designing workflows and understanding human interactions with processes, you already have a headstart.Through the course of this book, you will:Build a prototype of an application pageCreate the most frequent use flow in a process, and define the data modelGenerate real process forms and produce the first version of the applicationConnect your application to external information systems, and then build and test the complete application