Today's competitive businesses need to be more flexible, responsive and efficient. Increasingly, companies are turning to business process management (BPM) enabled by service-oriented architecture (SOA) to help streamline their operations and react quickly to new opportunities and changing market requirements.

Successful BPM, however, is not just about technology.
It requires high-level vision and collaboration between IT and business management. It demands effective metrics, actionable strategies and a commitment to organizational change. The biggest challenge often lies in being able to articulate existing business processes. A second challenge is to integrate these processes through applications.

Prior to moving into the application layer, Grupo ASSA's Business Process Transformation model focuses on a BPM approach that includes understanding, modeling and blueprinting the customer's business processes, working closely with management and the end-user community.

This approach includes:

• Business Process Modeling / Reverse Engineering
• Business Process Methodology (Process Office)
• Evolutionary and Corrective Support alignment
• BPM improvement Roadmaps