Share How the Business Operates with IBM Blueworks Live
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP12-0126, dated April 24, 2012 Share how the business operates with IBM Blueworks Live Table of contents 1 Overview 5 Publications 2 Key prerequisites 5 Technical information 2 Planned availability date 6 Ordering information 2 Description 7 Terms and conditions 3 Product positioning 8 Prices 4 Program number 9 Announcement countries At a glance IBM® Blueworks LiveTM delivers: • The ease that comes with using a cloud-based, On Demand software-as-a- service (SaaS) offering • The tools that enable you to discover and document processes simply, with no extensive training required • The ability to share process information throughout the user community, so that everyone can contribute to process improvements • A single, shared process repository that is continually updated • The ability to document even complex business processes • Support for industry standards that allows you to leverage your business models to jumpstart your business process management (BPM) solutions • A library of predefined templates to accelerate new process-design efforts • An alternative to email as a way to configure and run simple processes Overview One shared repository: In many organizations, employees do not know where they can find the latest version of a business policy, business process, or business rule. Often they spend too much time searching for processes or rules only to find them forgotten on a shelf or on a shared drive or in someone's inbox or, even worse, in someone's head. The nervous system of an organization is made up of its processes and rules, and with the speed at which both the business and the workforce are changing, business cannot afford not knowing where they are documented any longer.
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