| Since the inception of software, business people | | | | asked was for even possible. |
| have been trying to get it to replicate their success | | | | Today, the creation of business process tools |
| in previous business endeavors by having it reuse | | | | requires little, if any, help from IT technicians. There |
| previously established business processes and | | | | are now programs that create the applications that |
| applying these processes to new situations. | | | | business people need. And there are scores of |
| Back then, creating software - that today falls into | | | | already developed software available practically |
| the category of BPM tools - was an excruciatingly | | | | anywhere. |
| long process that involved hiring an army of | | | | Modern innovative, user-friendly BPM tools help |
| programmers and computer experts and making sure | | | | streamline business processes by taking mounds of |
| that they understood exactly what their task was | | | | data and translating it into something that business |
| before they went on to design and build programs | | | | minds can understand - information they can use to |
| from scratch. And this doesn't even account for the | | | | establish a course of action that adds value to their |
| maintenance, troubleshooting, and debugging that | | | | products and services or reduces costs and |
| must have been involved after implementation. | | | | resources. |
| Creating software was a constant collaboration | | | | Leading providers of business process management |
| between business people and computer people that | | | | software suites feature software that can design, |
| demanded countless hours from both parties. Things | | | | model, execute, monitor, and optimize business |
| were bound to be lost in translation and original | | | | processes and more. |
| concepts were bound to be skewed if what was | | | | |