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EZ-Process
Newsletter January 2004 This newsletter was sent to you because you or your organization has shown interest in Process & Workflow Management for Baan/SSA. If you feel this newsletter could be interesting for a colleague of yours, please forward this email to him/her. |
| Process Modeling & Workflow Management Newsletter |
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| January 2004 | |
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| How will Process & Workflow
Management help you satisfy the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements …
Is your organization prepared to implement required controls now imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Do you know the key fundamental requirements of the Internal Control Certification? Most likely not, as indicated by statistics issued from several analyst firms, such as the META Group, recently publishing the result of a survey showing that:
Also interesting in these various analyses is the key position and value of Business Process Management (BPM) to facilitate the implementation of internal controls compliant to SOX regulations. In fact, AMR published in November 2003 that “enforcing such all-encompassing legislation requires companies to solidify and lock down many of their document-centric processes while pursuing means to monitor processes and detect noncompliance.” This need to have explicitly modeled processes to manage efficiently SOX is also supported by interviewed executives ranking the implementation of Business Process Management as highest ranking elements on their top-preferences list. Enabling Workflow Management is ranking third on the same list. Recently (December 2003), AMR published the Report "ERP Consolidation and Automated Tools Will Reduce Long-Term Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Costs." Based on this research, AMR recommends “linking the technical architectures for employee training and assessment to the business process design and execution systems to close the loop on compliance”. This emphasizes the need for a solid and extendable Business Process Management platform, allowing companies to integrate the e-Learning environment with the Process Modeling and publishing framework. EZ-Process, already certified to all Baan releases, not only delivers extended BPM features such as Process Definition & Optimization tools, integration & corporate-wide deployment infrastructure, but also provide specific features to address SOX requirements. For more information about how EZ-Process BPM can help your organization getting prepared and insure SOX compliancy, visit: |
SOX Compliance page |
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A new & updated BaanDEM & BaanWorkflow Resources Library
Launched in 2002, the www.BaanDEM.com / www.BaanWorkflow.com updated Resources Library now provides a comprehensive library of documentation and resources to address your Baan DEM, BPM and Workflow for SSA/Baan related questions. Available resources include:
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www.BaanDEM.com & www.BaanWorkflow.com … as simple as it can get ... Bookmark and share with colleagues. |
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How will Workflow Management improve your business?
Now that the Enterprise-wide transaction integration has been achieve with ERP systems, several organizations are working to add automation mechanisms into their operations. This is were Workflow Management comes into the picture to enhance significantly internal processes. To better understand in a clear manner the impacts of Workflow Management can & will have in your organization, let’s take as an example the Workflow-enabling of the Purchase Requisition Approval process.  As seen in the picture above, organizations operating in the traditional way using paper-driven requisitions rely on the actual paper transaction to initiate, execute and complete their process. The tracking of any transaction status is difficult and time-consuming, and the lost of the paper requisition goes unnoticed until a crisis erupts. Unlike the manual process cumulating extensive non-value time and resources, the Workflow-enable process enables greater speed and consistency of the process as each approval steps are sent as notifications to the appropriate users. A greater collaboration is then achieved as all requisitions/approval notes are attached directly to the electronic requisitions, enabling by itself a complete online monitoring of the approval steps, status and possible issues. The fact that the transaction to be worked on is pushed directly by the Workflow engine to the relevant user instead of having users having to “chase & find” transactions, constitute the major paradigm shift of Workflow Management, and provide significant benefits. Organizations such as MD Robotics (Baan ERP-5 customer / manufacturer of the Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator for the NASA’s space shuttle program) and Comcast Cable (non-Baan customer / largest Cable provider in the USA) are both seeing significant reduction of their purchase requisitioning cycle, translating into cost reductions and better customer services. To see a complete step-by-step Workflow scenario, visit http://dynaflow-dem.com/Menu/WorkflowDemo.html. |
Visit Workflow Demo |
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SSA/Baan DEM Problem Resolution & Optimization Program For Baan IV, Baan ERP 5 and Baan 6 Customers
Not yet DEM users? |
DEM Problem Resolution & Optimization Program |
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Why not web-enabling your DEM Process Model? It’s FREE!
Your organization invested considerable time and effort to define DEM diagrams? Why not web-enabling them? Many Baan customers such as FTS, Siemens, Mercedes, Solectron, Poste France, Invensys, Solar Turbines, etc… have done so. With only minutes of your time, your DEM processes (Baan IV, ERP-5, 6.0) can be viewed by your entire Intranet users, using only their browser. In addition, you can enrich them by linked directly your ISO/SOX/training documents to your DEM processes. Finally, generate custom user-manuals based on their specific roles within the company. |
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Welcome to EZ-Process seminars
To respond to the growing information requests for EZ-Process/BPM and its integration with SSA/Baan (IV, ERP-5, 6.0), several web-based seminars are now scheduled for the following dates. |
 EZ-Seminar Agenda & Subscription |
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Not only the new release enables us to comply better to our Solar Turbines/Caterpillar internal company standards, EZ-Publisher now plays a key corporate role in deploying our documented business processes (modeled in DEM, Visio and EZ-Modeler) and the business know-how helpful to insure greater tasks consistency and efficiency within Solar Turbines. Now available to our entire employee community, our DEM investment is truly enhanced". |
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DynaFlow Americas Canada Phone: +1 (514) 867-2226 www.dynaflow-dem.com |
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DynaFlow Europe The Netherlands Phone: +31 (6) 5399-1213 www.dynaflow.nl |