Business Processes

When the atmosphere in your team is hot because  the huge number of various projects and tasks go out of control, there are not too much software on the market that may help you to arrange teamwork and workflows in your real life rather than in the sales booklets.

Weak awareness and bad visibility of project goals, names, stakeholders, involved people, teams, next actions and deadlines… Important documents are lost in emails and file archives, and a new team member needs ages to rise on stage.

Under the pressure of time and money, you need an affordable tool that is easily available, quickly customizable and easily acceptable by users due to modern (today it is web) interface. You are looking for something really good.

See the record of the  webinar from 10th February 2011, and you will find out how  you can

• collaborate in teams and with your clients
• centralize project communication
• implement fundamentals of project management
• conduct time tracking
• log work
• share project documents
• manage user roles
• implement business intelligence
• arrange common business processes

with easy-to-use and popular tool

I will not sell you some asbtract future concepts in color marketing  boxes. I tell the realy story of real implementation of JIRA for business use, about the experience of real users and stakeholders.

See the record of Webinar now

I have found that my previous post, where I called JIRA a next generation ERP, is sometimes understood literally as “JIRA is ERP” just now. Well, JIRA is not an ERP as it is, and cannot be treated as such. In theory, it could might be configured to replace some ERP functionality in one its future versions.

It was not the point. What I wanted to say, it that if you are not sure whether you need to start implementing an ERP in your company and if you are not a big multinational production corporation, then you would better consider to use a BPM System, that may still meet most of your needs, will be less expensive and could be implemented few times faster.

• ERP provides very good embedded workflow, but poor enterprise workflow. BPM supports both functional and enterprise workflow scenarios.
• BPM is far more agile than ERP systems, where BPM requires on average 3 months to implement, ERP takes 20 months. Change management is also faster with BPM.
• ERP often needs BPM to help realize its full value.

Dennis Byron, analyst with ebizQ

If you are a big production corporation that already use an ERP solution, you may still consider to implement a BPMS as shortcut and an interface for some sophisticated ERP workflows, in order to reduce the number of users to train for ERP,  decrease time to perform operations within the software, etc.  A good example of this is TEMPO plugin for JIRA. The plugin synchronizes JIRA time tracking with SAP database, and the users  are able to log their work hours much faster and easier with JIRA,  than through slow SAP interface (fat client) with extra user licenses.

Another examples around are Soreco AG ,  BPM&O GmbH, ATOSS Software AG and  a couple dozens of other BPMS providers, who develop their own modern systems (mostly in JAVA and with web interface)  and  implement them also in oder to bypass awkward workflow schemes in ERPs of their customers.

But again,  I don´t advice to fully replace any existing ERP implementation now or later, it is not feasible. Just make them  more user friendly by integrating with web-based BPM solutions.

I am looking for a marketing and hosting partner to provide hosted Business Process Management System for Project Portfolio Management and Time Tracking.

The solution is based on Atlassian JIRA and consists of customized configuration files, list of plugins, visual maps of the system configuration, executive summaries, description of basic use cases for user training.

The partner is supposed to have resources for system installation, SaaS hosting support, R&D, marketing and user training.

The partner may also have clients who already use JIRA, and may want to expand its usage.

I see my role as the product owner or product manager.
If you are the one, please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn, XING or using this form:

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