Business Process Management

BizTalk Server is Microsoft’s central platform for BPM and embodies the integration and automation capabilities of XML and Web Services technologies.

BizTalk Server functions both as a process execution engine and as a multi-transport hub for inter-system messaging with an easy-to-use business rules engine that allows you to specify your process dependant rules.

A business process is a set of linked steps or activities that taken together result in a specific business outcome, either internal or external to the organization.

Business process management (BPM) is a discipline that combines a process-centric and cross-functional approach to improving how organizations achieve their business goals. A BPM solution provides the tools that help make these processes explicit, as well as the functionality to help business managers control and change both manual and automated workflows.

Business process management has its origins in total quality management and business process reengineering. While it adds to these a technological framework, it is more than just the combination of these disciplines. BPM is an IT enabled management discipline that promotes organizational agility and supports the efforts of people to drive process change and rapid innovation. As such, BPM supports the alignment of IT and business activities both within the organization and with business partners and suppliers.

BPM is a fast, agile process in which business and IT work together using tools that enable them to arrive at solutions that not only support the organization’s efforts right now, but provide the framework enabling rapid adaptation to new challenges.

DB Consulting is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for SOA and Business Processes and one of the leading UK consultancies for BizTalk design, development and implementation services. We have been involved with BizTalk since its initial beta releases and have successfully implemented BizTalk-based solutions across a number of varied industry verticals. For more information on how we can help, please click here.