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Business process management
Enhance automation, empower decision-makers
By Laurent Olivier Tarin
ILOG Solutions Architect
Business process management (BPM) ensures the precise execution of critical operations and the rapid implementation of decisions. Well-executed BPM empowers a company to perform a cross-enterprise task quickly and cost-effectively.

Using process modeling and workflow control, BPM manages an infrastructure of hardware and software to enable the smooth flow of information. Despite the importance of commercial BPM solutions to business experts, process management tools are primarily aimed at IT users, and deny business experts direct or adapted access to the business decision logic inside the processes.

Enter ILOG JRules
ILOG JRules allows the separation of the duties for creating processes and implementing policies. Process managers apply BPM solution tools to create business processes, while business experts use ILOG JRules to write and maintain the business rules that implement company policies and other procedural regulations.

When ILOG JRules is used to complement a commercial BPM solution:

• Task automation is enhanced inside the process
• Expert resources can be focused on unusual cases
• Business decisions are accessible to business users
• Business logic is externalized from the process logic
• Business processes are simpler to design and maintain
• Processes can be updated dynamically
• Task allocation is flexible, reducing the impact of organizational changes on the BPM process

ILOG JRules makes BPM maintenance more flexible and cost-effective than ever before.

For more information on ILOG JRules in business process management, please contact an ILOG Sales Representative near you or visit our BPM Web pages, at http://www.ilog.com/solutions/business/bpm.