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We’ve been following the industry news to keep ourselves updated and would like to share with you some interesting articles we found regarding unstructured workflow, unstructured process management, ad hoc action tracking, dynamic process management and more Hope you enjoy it. We’d love to hear your comments.

 

Big Fat Finance Blog
Eric Krell, Big Fat Finance Blog, Sep 24th 2009
"Survey finds GRC technology spending will rise in 2010"
Gartner
Jim Sinur, Gartner Blog, Sep 16th 2009
The writer, a Research VP at Gartner, expects to see a rise in the need to support unstructured processes as well as traditional ones"
Forrester
Clay Richardson, 2009 BPM & Workflow Handbook
"…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"
the fast forward blog
David Davies, The Fast Forward Blog Comments, July 3rd 2009
"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"
Forrester
Connie Moore, The Forester Blog for Info & KM, June 19th 2009
Discussing the new need to master not only the straight through processes but also the huge world of work that involves emial and documents
CNNMoney
Aberdeen Group, CNNMoney, Jan 14th
Best-in-Class Organizations Were Able to Reduce Operating Costs by an Average Rate of 26% Through the Use of BPM Technologies
ebizQ
ebizQ, Dec 2008
New AIIM research found that 54% of organizations manually re-key some of the content they receive from customers, suppliers and partners
ZDNet
Ted Schadler, ZDNet, Dec 2008
Knowledge workers today work in distributed and multi-company teams and therefore need better extranet collaboration tools
EnterpriseSystems
Michael Lock, Enterprise Systems, Dec 2008
A study by an analysts from the Aberdeen Group on BPM use
LaneReport
Robin Roenker, The Lane Report, Nov 2008
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.
CIO
Ephraim Schwa, CIO, Nov, 2008
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
CIO
Meridith Levinson, CIO Nov 2008
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
ITPlanet
Richard Adhikari, Enterprise IT planet, Sep 15th, 2008
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.
NetWorkWorld
Michael Osterman , Network World , Sep 2008
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.