You are developing a new software project, and you realize that for a part of it, you need a state machine. Or in other words, a workflow. You immediately think about looking for an open-source workflow engine that you can incorporate into your development. You search and find dozens. They all claim to be easy […]

When you have a product with tens of thousands of subscribed organizations, you receive tens, maybe hundreds of requests for new features… every month! The decision matrix and a formal process to prioritize features are key to wisely decide which functionalities to include in the product. The balancing dilemma Achieving a balance is difficult. On […]

Historically, optimization efforts in the industry were focused on production processes. In general, all industries have their production processes optimized, measured, and controlled. But not every administrative process in the industry is optimized. The support processes, or administrative processes, have been left aside and usually run in a suboptimal way. This implies more personnel to […]

Historically, the price of Business Process Management (BPM) and Workflow software licenses was expensive. Expensive or cheap is a subjective perception, of course. But in general terms, for any medium or small organization, it was impossible to access these technologies mainly because of license price. An additional aspect, and not less important, is that it […]

Given the deep knowledge we have on the BPMN discipline, and by being caught up with the tool development every day, we sometimes assume that everyone knows as much as we do. And often, we realize that’s incorrect. Most people are not interested in learning about workflow design or management tools. And it’s right that […]

Working from home could be of great use sometimes. Yet on occasions, it may be difficult to ensure that the productivity levels won’t be affected, or that the main processes of the company would continue to work properly. It is at this moment, that the usage of a BPM software like Flokzu, will make it […]

A service process supports or assists the core work of professionals and consultants in service firms. As an example, the process of expenses reimbursements is not central to the delivery of the service; but it is important to the management of the firm. It is a support, or service, or secondary, process. The problem: forgetting […]

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery model. It is especially suitable for process automation, through SaaS BPM and SaaS Workflow Suites, reducing its complexity and costs. In this model, the process automation software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. It is sometimes referred to as “on-demand […]

Business Process Automation is key in any organization to make it more efficient, compete better and grow. Benefits are countless, but there are challenges.

Building a process model is the most relevant step to manage a business process under the BPM paradigm. Process modeling with the BPMN standard could seem difficult and scaring, but… does it really bite? The BPMN bite Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the worldwide standard for business processes diagrams. In fact, it […]