Whitepapers

Business relies upon IT systems to perform many of its tasks. While many times systems don’t really do what the business wants them to do, it is what they have to live with, and because they lack the necessary technical skills to change the system to meet their needs, they are forced into live with the structure in place. But what if the rules were to change? What if we made technical system definitions available in a format that the business can understand and change?

Princeton Blue’s 1Voice™ harnesses the power of the data gathered from the social web and enables its use within your organization to understand the perception of social community about your brand, product and service offerings and consequently drive brand management decisions. In 1Voice™, Princeton Blue has utilized its significant experience and expertise in delivering leading process-based solutions for its customers to build a solution that is perfectly adapted for bringing the social web to life within your organization.

The synergy between BPM and SOA is well known and is explained in a number of publications. However, the distinction between business processes that orchestrate services in the context of cross-application, long-lived, human-centric workflows, in contrast to processes orchestrating services in the context of a single short-lived transaction, is not always understood. Some resources do not explicitly explain the difference, referring to both processes and their roles as business processes. This contributes to the confusion and may lead to creating suboptimal organizational architecture strategies and the selection of wrong standards and products. This paper explains the difference in SOA between the roles of the two flavors of processes, and proposes a refined layered diagram for SOA Reference Architecture, providing general recommendations for selecting standards and tools.

There are many excellent publications on BPM Governance that cover various aspects of this discipline from the theoretical foundation and definitions to lessons learned and best practices. These Articles provide a good understanding of these aspects and offer useful, practical advice in respective areas. However, they all fall short of offering a comprehensive framework that can be used as a single source of reference, models, templates, and guidelines for definition and institutionalization of BPM Governance in one’s organization. The purpose of this Article is to define requirements of a comprehensive BPM Governance Framework and to outline the contents of such a framework using the Open Group’s framework for general and SOA governance as a useful pattern.

This white paper attempts to describe the reason for the growing popularity of SOA and other key business-driven integration technologies, and what business impetus it would take to bridge the gap between where SOA stands and where it could.

Using our depth of experience in the Financial Services industry, we have developed a solution to streamline retail banking, known as Integrated Banking of the Future™ (IBF). Essentially IBF delivers a service-based process-centric solution for the most critical retail banking processes and is designed to work with the banks’ existing front-end and back-office applications. IBF-Ready™ is a cost-effective option that leverages the powerful concepts of SaaS and Cloud Computing, to bring simplicity, ease of access, lower cost and flexibility to the Bank. This SaaS version of Princeton Blue IBF features minimal dependence on a bank's IT systems, and eliminates software and hardware licensing and maintenance costs. It can enable rapid ROI through much faster time-to-market and pay-as-you-scale models that can be customized for a bank's unique BPM and growth strategy.

Service Oriented Architecture is on the verge of becoming as mainstream as any new framework can be.  There is no ‘secret recipe’ or ‘time to bake’ period; it now has been a proven architecture that is being accepted by large and small companies across the globe. There are however pitfalls to avoid and some basic questions and steps to follow to ensure a successful SOA implementation.

Business Value - what is the value proposition in introducing new technology concepts to any business owner? Why does a business executive, sponsor, or an organization head consider changing technologies, software architectures or frameworks? The main purpose, in most cases for an Information Technology department’s existence, is to support the business in the automation of business activities.

A business process is a set of activities, tasks and events performed by systems and people to achieve a business goal. Commissioning a process involves several steps ranging from the ideation of the process through the building, and continuous improvement of the process - this is typically referred to as the life-cycle of a process. Business Process Management refers to the concept of managing a business process through its life-cycle.