BPCord (Business Process Coordinator)

BPCord (Business Process Coordinator) is the web based product of new generation constructed on the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), intended for business process management and creation of the flexible, scalable, process focused information systems of the companies.

BPCord is the tool which allows to encapsulate within information technologies set of knowledge of managers of the company of an order of functioning of processes, the relations in collective and methods of communications between employees.

BPCord is not just design and execution of processes which provide the most effective achievement of effective objectives in space of metrics — tasks, resources, time, it also process management in human measurement. People who are also an essence and the main resource of any business, using means of BPCord, can define what is done by an information system, and they can define it in a simple language in terms of the human tasks which they and should solve in the daily work.

BPCord belongs to the class Human Centric Business Process Management System, Human Interaction Management System (HIMS) which sometimes are also called. Having incorporated the most advanced achievements of BPM, BPCord at the same time as much as possible involves a human factor — Human Dimension. It provides to BPCord one of its main competitive advantages as instrument of implementation process-centric of approach of company management — the minimum terms from the moment of installation and configuring before start in operation.

BPCord v.2.1 supports complete lifecycle of business processes (design, implementation, execution, monitoring, improvement).

In addition to direct execution of business processes, as a BPM system monitoring of their quantitative parameters enters. Monitors of business processes allow top management of the company to reveal bottlenecks and to constantly improve the business processes. On their basis "key performance indicators" (KPI, Key Performance Indicators) and "balanced scorecard" can be constructed (BSC, Balanced Scorecard).

The cycle of management becomes isolated when by means of the designer of schemes changes are quickly made to business processes, and the changed business processes quickly are implemented into operation.

Using BPCord Smart Start technology, the company can receive the first notable results within several weeks.

Possibilities of BPCord

The critical aspect of business process management is the central role of process (process centric) thinking. This method of thinking, defines structure of business. It is based on a human factor, on how there is a collective work.

The process approach is focused, first of all, on business processes, ultimate goals of accomplishment which creation of the products or services which are of value for external or internal consumers is.

The subsystem of BPCord Portal provides uniform point of entry and the flexible unified interfaces of end users (based on the concept of BPCord Unified User Interface) for initiation, management and execution of business processes and tasks of the company.

Management subsystem business processes and tasks:

BPCord Human Process Model provides:

Design tools of schemes of processes with a possibility of use of the most suitable model. At your disposal two visual designers: Workflow Designer and Project Designer.

The instrument of designing of as much as difficult processes based on BPCord Composite Process Model.

Implementation of the concept of Human Process Life Cycle which gives the chance to manage changes in processes and provides means of communication of managers and contractors in a work progress over a process copy.

BPCord Human Task Model provides full-fledged management of lifecycle of Human Task and provides powerful tools of communications in course of execution of tasks.

BPCord Multi-Matrix provides functioning of a matrix management system:

Supports:

• functional organization structure and differentiation of ex-officio full powers of employees;
• automatic formation of process structures — target teams of employees (contractors of processes);
• hierarchy of the purposes and activities of the company.

Controls interaction of a functional and process control flow.

BPCord Documents subsystem constructed based on the concept of BPCord Task Centric Application allows to work as with unstructured (Word, Excel, PDF, etc.), and with the documents structured (XML). The wide feature set provides management:

• lifecycle of documents;
• document revisions;
• document templates;
• entry forms of the structured documents;
• document classification.

BPCord Integration Layer provides a connectivity of external functional modules and integration of the systems which are already operated in the company using Web Services mechanisms.

BPCord Business Processes Library allows to structure, store and use designed according to industry standards (CMMI, eTOM, etc.) libraries of schemes of processes which can be involved at start of process-centric of the solution in your company.

BPCord provides full implementation of process centric of approach of company management based on the concept of BPCord CPM (Composite Process Model), giving an opportunity of use of several business process models which can be involved depending on requirements to management of specific process.

The majority of systems offer the only business process model which it is possible to call "algorithmic model". In this model business process is described (or in special language, or by means of a graphic notation) as the determined sequence of tasks and patterns of management. At the same time, management of course of execution of such algorithm is assigned to the specialized automatic machine (Workflow Engine).

Certainly, the algorithmic model is good for management of the settled, regularly repeating processes on which influence of external factors or is absent, or is extremely insignificant. In this case the business analyst can really provide all possible options of succession of events and design the scheme of business process (algorithm) so that process adequately reacted to each possible situation.

Unfortunately, in real life everything is much more difficult, and the attempt to describe all processes of the company based on algorithmic model very often comes to an end with failure.

It is obvious that at least, all project processes do not keep within algorithmic model. Do not keep within it and processes which, as a rule, develop on a standard algorithm, but in case of unpredictable events begin to be controlled the person. Single instructions to employees from heads and personal tasks are also not implemented in algorithmic model.

Thus, it is necessary or to try to construct the supermodel who will cover all imaginable options of processes and at the same time to receive "monster" with whom only high quality IT specialists will be able to work, or to recognize evidence of the fact that existence in business process of a human factor results in need of use of different models of processes.

BPCord Composite Process Model makes available to business analysts and managers two basic models of processes: Workflow and Project. BPCord CPM allows to use combinations of two basic models for ensuring effective management of difficult processes.

BPCord CPM also includes special means and for management of single instructions (One-time Human Tasks) and personal tasks (Personal Tasks).

BPCord Multi-Matrix is a concept which provides implementation of process centric of approach, organically including in it staff of the company and the relation of employees in collective. BPCord supports array structure which is defined by two control flows:

The functional control flow — is based on hierarchical subordination of employees according to professional specialization. The main objective of a functional flow — function execution. Ensuring the most effective fulfillment of tasks within professional specialization.

The process (target) control flow — is based on subordination of employees to responsible managers of processes. The main objective of a process flow — achievement of the goal. Providing optimal schemes of processes and effective managements of course of execution of copies of processes

System architecture

BPCord constructed based on SOA and Web Services technologies provides unique opportunities of integration with the information systems which are operated in the company and can be involved in quality central components of creation of a common information space.

BPCord is the Web based product developed on the Microsoft.NET platform. All functions necessary for users for execution of business processes and tasks are available via the interface of the Web browser. It strongly accelerates solution deployment and seriously reduces operating costs, thereby significantly reducing total cost of ownership a system.

BPCord is designed using concepts of stateless of architecture that allows to build cluster solutions for the systems requiring the increased reliability of functioning and adapted to big peak nakgruzka.

Technology platform

The used technologies and programming languages: ASP.NET 2.0, C#.NET, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML/XSL, JavaScript, ASP.NET AJAX, T-SQL, ADO.NET, SOAP, Web Services, .NET Remoting. net Framework 3.0, MS Windows Workflow Foundation, InfoPath DOM

Integration with products of Microsoft

Today MS Project is the most popular product for project management. Integration with MS Office Project 2007 does BPCord by the unique solution on the functionality — the uniform portal capable to manage as the business processes described in the WorkFlow model and the business processes described by means of MS Office Project 2007 (Project model). Sharing of BPCord and MS Office Project 2007 allows the company to manage most effectively the projects, at the same time using advantages of WorkFlow and Project.

Licensing

The cost of BPCord consists of cost server components and costs of licenses. Licensing of BPCord is understood as transfer of the right to use a system to the customer by a certain number of the users who are at the same time working with the server (concurrent licensing model).

Cost server components — 300,000 rub.

User licenses

• Number of licenses 1-25; 26-50; 51-100; 101-200
• Cost of one license (rub) 14,750; 14,500; 14,250; 13,750