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		<title>How to Automate Human Resources Forms with BPM Software</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/03/08/human-resources-forms-bpm-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I talked about the similarities of BPM software to a GPS system; namely that BPM software walks an employee step-by-step through common HR business processes (such as a leave application) just as a GPS system provides driving directions.  I&#8217;d like to highlight, however, a key difference: unlike a GPS system, BPM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPM Software: Like GPS for your HR Forms</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/03/06/bpm-like-gps-for-your-hr-forms/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/03/06/bpm-like-gps-for-your-hr-forms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hr forms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[human resources forms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.processmaker.com/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As tax season once again rolls around, I was struck by the recent advertisement campaign of one of the major tax preparation software suites.  This particular software claims to be &#8220;like GPS for your taxes&#8221;, the idea being that the program guides you step-by-step through the virtual twists and turns of tax preparation, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing aka SaaS for Business Process Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/03/04/cloud-computing-aka-saas-for-business-process-management/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/03/04/cloud-computing-aka-saas-for-business-process-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kurt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Industry Analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SaaS BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software as Service]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Software-as-Service BPM]]></category>

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BPM in the Cloud with SaaS
This post is my last in a series of posts examining past trends in the learning management software market to understand future trends in business process management.
Over the last year or so, the buzz has been over cloud computing. The online training software industry embraced cloud computing when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LMS and BPM Trends, Part 2: Social Media Tools for Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/02/26/lms-and-bpm-trends-part-2-social-media-tools-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/02/26/lms-and-bpm-trends-part-2-social-media-tools-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kurt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Industry Analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management software]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/02/26/lms-and-bpm-trends-part-2-social-media-tools-for-business/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another trend, another LMS and BPM comparison. Part 2 in my series of postings on what past trends in the learning management software industry might say about future trends in business process management software. In this post, I took a look at the trend of social media tools for business.
Many enterprises are already using blogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workflow Software, BPM Software, and ERP Software - How does it all fit together?</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/02/04/workflow-software-bpm-software-and-erp-software-how-does-it-all-fit-together/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/02/04/workflow-software-bpm-software-and-erp-software-how-does-it-all-fit-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SAP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ERP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Great Plains Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JD Edwards Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[openbravo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Purchase Request]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Purchase Request Process]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workflow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.processmaker.com/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It can be tough to sell BPM Software when a company is taught to think that its ERP Software was designed to solve all of its problems.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at the Learning Management Systems Market to Uncover the Direction of Current BPM Trends</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/30/looking-at-the-learning-management-systems-market-to-uncover-the-direction-of-current-bpm-trends/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/30/looking-at-the-learning-management-systems-market-to-uncover-the-direction-of-current-bpm-trends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kurt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Industry Analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[learning management systems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LMS software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[trends]]></category>

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After hearing about the recent acquisition of Lombardi Software by IBM, I was reminded of another industry, the learning management system (LMS) industry. The BPM and LMS software markets are both highly fragmented markets with numerous vendors. Do the recent BPM acquisitions mirror activity in the LMS software market? Can we look at learning management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unanticipated Business Process Management Consequences of Corporate Procurement and Incentive Payment Card Programs</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/16/the-unanticipated-business-process-management-consequences-of-corporate-procurement-and-incentive-payment-card-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/16/the-unanticipated-business-process-management-consequences-of-corporate-procurement-and-incentive-payment-card-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kurt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[incentive card program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[procurement card program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/16/the-unanticipated-business-process-management-consequences-of-corporate-procurement-and-incentive-payment-card-programs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses that need to reduce costs by streamlining processes can replace paperwork with credit or debit card programs. Two examples of processes impacted by these card programs include procurement purchases and incentive payments.
Corporate Credit and Bank Card Programs
Procurement card programs simplify purchasing and accounts payable processes and reduce the paper trail of invoices that these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPM Software Vendor Buying Spree continues with Savvion being acquired by Progress Software Corporation</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/11/bpm-software-vendor-buying-spree-continues-with-savvion-being-acquired-by-progress-software-corporation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2010/01/11/bpm-software-vendor-buying-spree-continues-with-savvion-being-acquired-by-progress-software-corporation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BPM acquistions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Progress Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Savvion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Savvion compared to Lombardi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workflow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Savvion gets swallowed up and gives us a better idea of possible values of BPM companies.]]></description>
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		<title>The 3 Most Important Reasons Why IBM acquired Lombardi and Why the BPM Market is so Hot</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2009/12/29/the-3-most-important-reasons-why-ibm-acquired-lombardi-and-why-the-bpm-market-is-so-hot/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2009/12/29/the-3-most-important-reasons-why-ibm-acquired-lombardi-and-why-the-bpm-market-is-so-hot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BPMN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lombardi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workflow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The three main reasons IBM acquired Lombardi]]></description>
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		<title>“72% of organizations recoup their BPM investment within 2 years” according to new BPM study</title>
		<link>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2009/11/27/72-of-organizations-recoup-their-bpm-investment-within-2-years-according-to-new-bpm-study/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.processmaker.com/blog/2009/11/27/72-of-organizations-recoup-their-bpm-investment-within-2-years-according-to-new-bpm-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[business process management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business process managemet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HR workflows]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SOA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.processmaker.com/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BPM provides a quick ROI and demand for BPM is rising around the globe.]]></description>
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