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This white paper introduces webMethods Fabric 6.5 and how it helps companies increase Business Process Productivity.
The goal of Business Process Productivity is to enable enterprises to become both highly agile and highly efficient, allowing them to more easily leverage their existing information technology (IT) assets to address market opportunities and pressures, and to create competitive differentiation through their business processes.
To differentiate themselves from competitors, many forward-thinking businesses are shifting their focus from "what" they deliver to "how" they deliver it. This change is the driver for increasing Business Process Productivity. However, this shift requires that IT keep pace with the needs of the business more nimbly, and that the entire enterprise deliver more, with the resources at its disposal. The principle behind Business Process Productivity is to overcome this formidable challenge by dramatically simplifying and accelerating how companies are able to integrate their business processes (and the systems that underpin them), modify existing processes and create new ones as they enhance how they operate, and get the insight needed to respond adeptly to market changes. webMethods Fabric is the only integrated product suite on the market to incorporate all the functionality required to deliver on the promise of Business Process Productivity. Built on a platform of standards and a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), webMethods Fabric provides a unified solution that allows companies to:
- Increase efficiency, by integrating business processes and applications, and by connecting with trading partners, while, at the same time and with no additional effort, creating an inventory of reusable assets (business services) from their existing systems to accelerate subsequent initiatives.
- Increase agility, by enabling the rapid assembly of new business processes or modifications to existing processes to support the business as it changes; this ability includes the creation of user-centric composite applications that allow end-users to participate productively in the changed business processes.
- Increase control over their operations, by providing real-time information about key business performance indicators along with the intelligence required to optimize business processes and react quickly in response to changes in business activity levels.
To provide these capabilities, webMethods Fabric 6.5 combines a unique set of new features, along with the innovation of Smart Services and Smart Processes. With webMethods Fabric, companies are able to deliver business applications to the business faster, know what is happening in their business now, and predict what is coming next.
INTRODUCING WEBMETHODS FABRIC 6.5
webMethods Fabric 6.5 is a unified business integration and optimization product suite that fulfills all the needs of Business Process Productivity in a single, convergent solution. It builds on webMethods' pioneering origins in service-oriented architecture (SOA), the company's expertise in integration tools and technologies, and patent-pending business event monitoring and prediction technology.
The Promise of Business Process Productivity webMethods defines Business Process Productivity as the drive to make the business more effective and agile by focusing on "how" to deliver goods and services, rather than the "what". Business ProcessProductivity is about maximizing the return that a company realizes from its activities and assets, increasing competitiveness by differentiating business processes, and enabling IT to keep pace with the requirements of the business. Business Process Productivity is the next level in the evolution of integration. Although integration is still an important prerequisite, the value proposition of Business Process Productivity extends considerably beyond, focusing on business needs and the ability to effectively leverage existing IT assets in pursuit of business initiatives.
There are three dimensions to Business Process Productivity:
- First, to manage the full scope of the business and to increase efficiencies, companies need the ability to integrate their business processes. Furthermore, integration includes the ability to extend existing IT assets, turning them and the processes they underpin into reusable building blocks that can be repurposed to meet new requirements. Not only does this enable companies to leverage the investments they have already made, but it promotes reuse with all its associated benefits of reduced costs and improved quality.
- Second, to become more agile, organizations need the ability to rapidly change and assemble new business processes to support new requirements.
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