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"Survey finds GRC technology spending will rise in 2010"

The writer, a Research VP at Gartner, expects to see a rise in the need to support unstructured processes as well as traditional ones"

"…These ad-hoc unstructured processes are the very ones that keep agency heads up late at night praying that nothing slips through the cracks... Agency heads implementing ad-hoc BPM solutions sleep well at night, knowing that they have visibility into the status and progress of unstructured process"

"user context is a blind spot of automated BPM scenarios. There are even scenarios where human input is legally mandated in a process — such as in healthcare information processing"

Discussing the new need to master not only the straight through processes but also the huge world of work that involves emial and documents

Best-in-Class Organizations Were Able to Reduce Operating Costs by an Average Rate of 26% Through the Use of BPM Technologies

New AIIM research found that 54% of organizations manually re-key some of the content they receive from customers, suppliers and partners

Knowledge workers today work in distributed and multi-company teams and therefore need better extranet collaboration tools

A study by an analysts from the Aberdeen Group on BPM use

While no one denies the indispensable business tool e-mail has become, managing an in-box that is bursting at the seams leaves many workers reeling.

Despite being battered by recession-linked budget cuts, IT will have to find a way to comply with new regulations expected to emerge from the U.S. and other governments as a result of the financial. This will require increased use of auditing and tracking applications and the business processes behind them

IT departments scaling back on project work as the economy lurches toward a recession may be tempted to skimp on project management and portfolio management . But think twice: doing so could cost you far more--in projects gone awry and wasted resources

Enterprises have been struggling for years to leverage all the information on business processes they have stored away in order to conduct business better. The problem is much of this information is created in unstructured documents, such as spreadsheets and word processing documents, rather than in a database, making it difficult to control and manage.

As users of e-mail, collaboration tools and other information generation and management capabilities, we create lots of content and we have lots of difficulty finding it when we need it. A key part of that difficulty is based on the fact that we use different silos of information that often maintain separate data stores, different interfaces and the like. More importantly, however, many tools are not designed to present data in the way that we need it.