The Next Wave in Business Process Automation Means Making Business Processes

The Next Wave in Business Process Automation Means Making Business Processes Intelligent

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: March 2006
Product Code: R104-25562

Description

This IDC study introduces the concept of intelligent process automation (IPA), the dawning convergence that IDC sees between the business intelligence (BI) tools and business process automation (BPA) deployment software markets, from the BPA perspective. Other IDC deliverables look at the trend from the BI perspective and from a perspective that says the market will emerge combined and as a discrete phenomenon separate from their "parents." This model assumes the BPA market will remain separate.

"Both BI tools and BPA deployment software products will continue to be useful standalone," according to Dennis Byron "despite the fact that the convergence of the two is well under way."

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Table of Contents
IDC Opinion
In This Study
Methodology
Situation Overview
The Starting Point
Figure: Intelligent Process Automation Architecture Model
Table: Use of Business Process Management and Other Application Deployment Software
Not All There Yet
Lack of a Data Context
Lack of Tight, Hardened Multienterprise Process Flows
Table: Types of Business Process Management
The Requirements Above and Beyond Current BPM
Table: Use of Business Process Management Software with Business Intelligence Built In
IPA at Runtime
IPA Development
Future Outlook
Essential Guidance
What Do Users Want to Know
Planning for the Google Effect
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