The AgilePoint BPMS solution enables business to implement process-based applications and integrations that power end-to-end business operations and respond to market changes at the business level using reusable functions built by IT.

 

Business users hold a company’s real knowledge and know-how. With AgilePoint, business users who make up the enterprise’s frontline can not only model business processes but also deploy them. Now that all the different sides of business management in the enterprise are able to implement and improve processes with which they are most familiar using reusable executable functions built by IT. IT can now perform their functions more strategically and play the true enabler role and does not have to be involved in every improvement. This advancement not only enables business agility but also eliminates chunks of traditional programming and engineering cycle, saving costs and shortening the time it takes to implement a business integration solution. This is how agility can be achieved and higher operational cost efficiency can be quickly optimized.

The latest Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies

Unlike a number of BPMS suites on the market that are composed of a set of only “good enough” proprietary products, AgilePoint BPMS is built on today’s latest Microsoft .NET, XML, and Web services technologies. AgilePoint enables business users and developers to design and deploy BPM applications using software tools with which they’re already familiar. It is the first BPMS to directly integrate with Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. In addition, AgilePoint enables businesses to leverages Microsoft’s InfoPath, the leading new form tool on the market, to create open and interoperable XML-based forms for human interface with little or no coding, Microsoft’s BizTalk Server, one of the leading business integration infrastructure tools, as the integration backbone, and Microsoft’s SharePoint technologies as a portal, task and document management center.

 

While others offer the ability to create hard-coded workflows that have to be supported by developers and separate information workers from their business processes, preventing business users from creating, improving, analyzing, or taking control of their own business processes. AgilePoint BPMS consists of four parts —AgilePoint Envision, AgilePoint Server, AgilePoint Developer and AgilePoint Enterprise Manager —which can be bought as a package or piecemeal for a progressive BPM implementation and lower costs.

 

 

"What we really liked was the openness of the AgilePoint .NET architecture. AgilePoint fits exactly the requirements that we have for BPMS on our Microsoft platform. We selected AgilePoint also because of the simplicity with which it could be incorporated within our current SOA architecture. This should lead to a higher business agility for Philips Research.” - Fred Theuws, Head Architecture Team, Philips Research".