When you hear for the first time about BPM, it’s possible to consider it just an acronym - like most in the technology area. After identifying the complete name of this acronym, Business Process Management, you may start to be curious.

This happened in my case, when my collaborator Anton started to explain to me, in a friendly and non-technical manner, this concept and how it is actually implemented in the Enterprise Concept projects.

According to Wikipedia, “Business process management (BPM) is a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology.”

You might be also familiar with Enterprise Concept’s definition: “Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment and core operations.”

Let’s say that now we have a first impression about BPM, and we may start consider the value of this concept important because it provides three important benefits: efficiency, effectiveness and agility, to  every company.

For the moment, while defining and analyzing the benefits of BPM, we are positioned in the present. But what about the past and the future of this concept?

Marcus Aurelius thought about the importance of the past in creating the future:”Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”

So let’s hear the BPM voices from the past!

The man as a social creature in real and virtual space. The motivation and the membership benefits of social networks.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a group of services that communicate with each other. The process of communication involves either simple data-passing between a service provider and service consumers, or a more complicated system of two or more service providers. Intercommunication implies the need for some means of connecting two or more services to each other.

Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment and core operations.