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Task Centre - Business Process Management
Task Center
Business
Process Management (BPM) Suite - Task Centre
TaskCentre is a powerful suite of Business Process Management (BPM)
technologies that enables organizations to automate virtually any
process by adding the following capabilities to their business
applications:
Advanced
Business Alerts
Receive real-time alerts of critical
events; ensuring your organization is compliant and one step ahead.
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Web
Content Publishing
Keep your web portals synchronized and
up-to-date by automating company web content.
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Workflow
Optimize the productivity of your
workforce by intelligently routing workloads to company employees.
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Subscriptions
& Requests
Empower
stakeholders to request and receive information without employee
intervention.
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Document
Automation
Save time and money by automating the
creation & distribution of everyday company documentation.
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Integration
Transform all your company applications into one event-driven,
service-oriented management solution.
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What is
Business Process Management?
Business Process Management in broad terms is
the automation of those employee activities that cost the company valuable time
and money. All businesses today are dependent on people extracting, formatting
and distributing business information from business applications. Yet, people
have physical limitations, they are prone to illness and unfortunately make
mistakes.
Business Process Management technology is the IT industry's response to the
problems created by employee-dependant applications. Directors, managers,
suppliers and customers expect instant responses to real-time commercial
interactions and business process management technology leverages all the
organization's IT systems by creating a real-time, responsive infrastructure.
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organizations demanding TaskCentre?
Organizations are demanding Orbis Software's
Business Process Management (BPM) Suite, TaskCentre, because of its proven
ability to immediately reduce operational costs and substantially increase
productivity. All company applications present the employee with an
'opportunity' to do something i.e. run a report, escalate an issue or produce
and deliver compliance documents, but with TaskCentre
these procedures are
dynamically triggered and achieved, without fail and to company rules or
policies. Indeed, with customers expecting richer information, accountability
becoming increasingly important and departmental workloads outstripping physical
resources, companies are now strategically automating their critical business
processes to increase productivity, save time and reduce costs.
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TaskCentre's
solutions and examples of use
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Solutions
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Examples of use
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KPI's,
fraud detection, critical failure points, workload exceptions, employee
performance alerts and financial warnings. |
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Increased
credit limit acceptance, budget sign-off, production schedule approval
and confirmed delivery receipt. |
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Monthly
statements, loading instructions, welcome packs, credit control letters
and end-of-line product specials. |
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Publishing
of KPI's, drop history, current queue status, capacity levels and live
customer account statements. |
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Balance
enquires, news subscriptions, property details, stock levels and
employee shortfalls. |
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Updated
supplier contacts, self-service ticketing, automated unsubscribes,
update name and address across multiple applications and refresh
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How does
Business Process Management (BPM) Software work?
Business Process Management Software works by 'loosely coupling' with a
company's existing applications which enables it to monitor, extract, format and
distribute information to systems and people; in line with business events or
rules.
By leveraging the processes and information of existing applications, automated
business processes can be configured and re-configured without having to alter
the underlying configuration of a company's applications. TaskCentre merely uses
these applications as information services and workflow trigger points.
Creating or re-creating an automated business process is achieved via any PC on
which TaskCentre is installed through its intuitive and logical Graphical User
Interface (GUI). This GUI enables an administrator to automate common
employee-driven processes, such as creating and sending end-of-week sales
reports, by simply dragging and dropping Tools into a sequence that emulates the
employee process, i.e. Schedule Tool, ODBC Tool, Run Crystal Tool and Send SMTP
Tool.
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The Business
Benefits of Business Process Management Software
Business Process
Management Software, as a technology, can deliver endless benefits to any-sized
organization but more importantly these benefits will be unique to your company.
Through automating repetitive employees business processes, such as report
creation and distribution or the monitoring of or reporting on company KPI's,
TaskCentre reduces your operational costs and frees-up employees to concentrate
on activities that are important to the success of your business.
A small sample of the common business benefits that our customers cite include:
• Stronger Revenue Streams
• Operational Savings
• Reduction in the Administration involved with Compliance and ISO Activities
• Greater Company Agility
• Higher Customer Satisfaction Levels
• Freeing-up of Employee Time
• Eradication of Data Entry Errors
• Critical Failure Avoidance
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Advanced
Business Alerts
Organizations today need
to ensure that they are instantly notified of situations before or as they
happen, enabling them to make better informed decisions based upon
critical data events.
In today’s information
age, organizations now manage an ever increasing array of information
systems, which inherently possess little or no functionality to generate
notifications based upon data events or criteria.
TaskCentre provides
comprehensive tools and design capabilities to integrate with any number
of existing applications or systems to provide people with the information
needed to make timely and accurate decisions; whenever and wherever they
are located.
How do Advanced Business Alerts differ from my
application’s existing alerting capability?
If your current application came
with basic alerting, you will already be aware of its limitations. The
challenges faced by your company are unique and the token alerts that came
with your primary application were probably not built for your company's
needs, but for that of the mass market.
Below are just a few reasons why
companies with basic or no alerting capabilities turn to TaskCentre’s
Advanced Business Alerts:
- They are not hard
coded - Unlike your existing alerts, Advanced Business Alerts
can be configured and reconfigured to address your exact business needs
simply and quickly. You will also not lose them when you upgrade your
primary application.
- You can add them to
all your company’s applications - Many Organizations run more
than one business application and TaskCentre’s Advanced Business Alerts
allows you to add this capability to all of them.
- They are not only
internally distributed - TaskCentre’s Advanced Business Alerts
are not restricted to delivery within the organization. Using our
technology, key stakeholders such as suppliers, distributors, retailers
and customers can all receive real-time alerts about information that
impacts on their interaction with you and your company.
- They can trigger
other automated processes - Our Advanced Business Alerts have
the ability to trigger other more sophisticated automated business
processes or escalate the issue to other employees in line with your
business rules and procedures. Employees can also interact with our
Advanced Business Alerts to end, continue or begin an automated workflow
process.
- You won’t lose your
MS SQL triggers - If you have ever had to upgrade your SQL DB
to a newer version you have probably suffered the misfortune of losing
all your previously built SQL Triggers. As TaskCentre both creates and
manages MS SQL Triggers independently, this issue is eliminated.
- You can receive
alerts via multiple communication mediums - Unlike basic
alerts, Advanced Business Alerts can be received in the form of e-mail
and SMS. Reports can also be automatically created and attached to
alerts.
- They have memory
capabilities built in - The memory within our Advanced
Business Alerts ensures that escalations and other automated tasks that
have been triggered by an alert follow company rules and procedures.
- We do not place
restrictions on you and your company - Using our technology,
you can create as many Advanced Business Alerts as your want.
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| Workflow
More than ever,
organizations today are striving to achieve efficient, consistent and
measurable processes as a pre-requisite to delivering quality to their
customers. Maintaining alignment with, and auditing of (Quality)
Management System without the right technology foundation is a
challenging, time consuming and costly endeavor.
Workflow enforces
consistency in the organization's processes and can therefore play a
fundamental part in the acceleration of company performance and the
development of a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet, to date, most
traditional Workflow systems are reliant on the individual to identify and
start a workflow process rather than this being dynamic, event-driven and
integrated with their own systems.
The problems caused by
traditional approaches to workflow are also exacerbated by the number of
people and departments that business processes can cross and, therefore,
the requirement for intelligent Workflow functionality is high on the IT
agenda.
Through TaskCentre,
organizations are able to add Workflow capabilities to their existing
software applications, which immediately increases productivity,
eradicates administrative waste and enhances stakeholder relationships.
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| Document
Automation
The creation,
distribution and management of business documents are commonplace
activities for management personnel and administrative staff alike.
Traditional document concepts still form the backbone of structured
business communications and transactions.
TaskCentre Document
Automation functionality provides tools that enable organizations to
connect existing applications and systems, which can automatically
generate and distribute document flows, to all the company’s
stakeholders and trading partners. Whether they’re reports, letters,
order acknowledgements, invoices or statements, structured and repetitive
documents can be automatically generated, presented and delivered via a
variety of formats and channels.
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| Web
Content Publishing
Communicating with
company stakeholders and ensuring that they have access to and
visibility of relevant information is vital in the current competitive
environment. Cost-effective communication will help to develop long-term
beneficial relationships and contribute to future organizational growth.
Within an organization,
valuable knowledge typically resides in ring-fenced information
‘islands’, often within departmental or organizational boundaries.
However, making this information more widely accessible to employees,
partners, customers and other stakeholders is labor-intensive and cost
prohibitive. Using TaskCentre's Web Content Publishing capabilities,
online information can be automatically generated, published and updated
according to user-defined rules.
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| Subscriptions
and Requests
Today’s consumers
and business partners want information on demand. We require specific
data as it becomes relevant and demand that it is sensitive to the
channel through which we make the requests. Fuelled by our increasing
reliance upon the internet and the expansive growth in mobile devices,
information on demand is expected in every dimension.
For an organization,
supplying dynamic information services places considerable strain on
its human resources, but to ignore these needs and not develop an
offering would be to risk losing out to competition. For example, the
speed and accuracy of the response to an initial enquiry forms the
very first impression of your organization.
TaskCentre provides a
range of tools to develop and maintain highly configurable and user
defined 'subscription based services or request-response' mechanisms
that integrate tightly into any organization's databases and
information systems. The development of a ‘self-service’
infrastructure to automate the delivery of information is accelerated.
Furthermore, TaskCentre enables any organization to easily adapt and
evolve to the constantly changing face of customer requirements.
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| Integration
Organizations need
systems that support end-to-end efficiency for their business
processes, whilst ensuring that all complexities remain absolutely
invisible to operators and external partners alike.
Integration
interfaces are developed and delivered by software vendors within
their own individual API’s, toolsets and formats. More often than
not, there is very little standardization across systems and
therefore integration becomes a matter of hard-coded development or
low-level scripting.
TaskCentre bridges
the gap between disparate information systems, by providing a
graphical process modeler and comprehensive operating environment
that either dramatically reduces, or totally eliminates the need for
complex integration development. By design TaskCentre delivers and
manages process Integration, ensuring that systems ‘talk to each
other’, no matter how complex the requirements.
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