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We’ve covered topics related to process management a few times, but beyond BPM, there are two other common abbreviations: BPMS and BPMN. Do you know what they mean?
In this article, we’ll bring you a brief explanation about each of these so that you can, besides finding out their benefits, understand their definitions, their differences, and realize how their specificities can impact your company’s results positively.
BPM
Starting with the main one, Business Process Management (BPM) refers to an adjustable management methodology, designed to organize and facilitate corporate organizational processes.
Its core purpose is to help companies to achieve their goals through enhanced management and method control, using tools and techniques responsible for analyzing, modeling, improving, publishing, and controlling processes involving all departments.
BPM enables meaningful, positive transformation to take place in your company. It provides a horizontal overview that covers each process’ particularities, enhancing and optimizing management.
Advantages of BPM
Among the many advantages that BPM provides, the most meaningful ones are process optimization and enabling real-time visualization of activities progress. It makes troubleshooting quicker and more effective, improving your company’s competitiveness. Besides, we can cite additional benefits, such as:
- A collaborative view;
- More traceability;
- Information accuracy;
- More efficiency;
- Better results overall.
Wish to learn more about the adoption of a BPM tool? Check this complete article about the topic.
BPMN
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), previously known as Business Process Modeling Notation, is a notation, which means, a graphical representation system composed of icons and symbols that represent process flows, and it’s of the most commonly used frameworks to perform such activity.
Benefits of BPMN
Having understood what BPMN is, we can identify the benefits that using this notation brings to companies. Everyone knows that a graphical representation can be more comprehensive than text. By using a language that can be understood by everyone involved in a business process, BPMN is considered a universal communication tool.
Diagramming a process in a flowchart enables and facilitates communication and collaboration, making it more efficient bringing high-quality results. This can be applied to various types of processes, be they operational, administrative, or financial. In addition, the visualization of stages and operations facilitates more assertive decision-making.
BPMS
BPMS stands for Business Process Management Suites/System. It covers all the technical support and software tools responsible for process automation and execution through digital means. They act directly on a company’s existing activities and processes control and monitoring.
Benefits of BPMS
There are several benefits generated by a BPMS application. We’ll list some of them:
- Processes transparency;
- Greater productivity;
- Improved service quality;
- Improved internal communication;
- Activity control effectivity;
- Rework elimination;
- Process automation;
- Results optimization;
- Operational cost reduction.
To explain how BPMS adds value to your business, this article brings detailed information on how this tool contributes to your competitive differentiation.
Getting it right
After reading this article, we can conclude that BPM is a business process management methodology, while BPMN is a notation, a set of rules and symbols to represent the steps of a process graphically. BPMS, on the other hand, is a software tool (or a toolset) used for processes automation and execution.
Conclusion
Processes management and automation, when supported by the right tools and strategies, provide cost reduction, increased productivity, improved products and services quality, and optimized results.
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