Scoring Big with ECM Integration...

Achieving a result that is greater than the sum of its parts

This time of year, thoughts often turn to football. It's common to hear office arguments and/or commiserations over favorite teams. And football pools provide some additional water cooler discussions. It was right around this time--89 years ago--that the National Football League (NFL) was organized in Canton, Ohio.

Officially organizing the league set the framework to expand the concept of American football into a major enterprise. After the players, the teams, and--most importantly--the rules were integrated into a standardized, cohesive league, it was possible to achieve more than they had originally thought possible.

Admittedly, it might be a bit of a stretch to compare your BPM system to a professional football league...but, by creating teams to organize your company's processes and setting rules, you, too, can become a major competitor.

As explained in the article, BPM Success: Integration is the Key, "Integration makes it possible to tap into the tangle of business processes to get information wherever it resides and make it useful wherever it’s needed. If the diverse software applications you use don't connect at logical points, you miss opportunities for efficiency that enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software allow." 

To learn more about this concept, check out the article Web Services Integration. The article details how Web services, when part of an integrated ECM solution, allows you to integrate multiple applications and functions within a single interface. It makes it possible for users to work completely within their own, familiar application – simply clicking on menu items or buttons to execute commands from other systems. This integration increases the efficiency of all your systems, while keeping it simple for the end user.

The bottom line:

In order to compete with the "top dogs" in your industry, integrate your enterprise into a cohesive system using BPM. You'll see amazing improvements in efficiency. Web services are a vital component to integration. They enable communication between diverse software systems and help organizations to increase productivity through improved information access and turnaround.

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