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Traditional methods for achieving process
automation involved
embedding process definitions and knowledge inside of IT applications.
This makes processes very difficult to understand and even harder
to change.
Organizations that pursued this path have found most process
have been embedded in functionally oriented applications. The
result is a set of inflexible legacy
systems that have high maintenance
costs and inhibit organizational flexibility. The ability to
change processes across internal functional lines and especially
across organizational boundaries with business partners is very
difficult.
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In the extreme case many organizations who bought off the shelf
ERP, CRM or supply chain management software packages were forced
to change their processes in order to accommodate the automated
systems.
Process liberation
frees the definition and management of process from the IT applications
that support the process. This puts processes management back
in the hands of business owners who can better understand or
more easily make changes to processes.
Process liberation is typically achieved through the use of
a BPM Platform which includes features for translating process
models into digitized
processes that can be executed through
the use of a process
execution engine.
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