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There are many packages in Pega BPM suite

There have been cases where projects have blended PEGA methodology with more traditional development approaches such as Agile or Waterfall. Normally this is done based on dependencies. For eg. large J2EE changes would follow waterfall, smaller J2EE changes follow Agile, ESB changes would follow RUP, Pega would follow Smart BPM- this is just an example and it depends upon the project decisions.

In these cases, there are many challenges for various development approaches to match up the timeline:

BPM is not just technology. BPM is a management concept that helps organizations achieve their strategic goals and drive their operations. Automation is a key component of BPM solutions. It includes several iterative phases from design to execution to monitoring and continuous improvement. It plays a key role in process improvement and enterprise architectures.

iBPMS encapsulates a number of core capabilities, including:

Process Component Registry/Repository iBPM suites are ideal for intelligent business operations. Key among intelligent business operations are iBPM-enabled customer relationship management operations.

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To keep it simple, iBPM is just Intelligent Business process Management

iBPM has become the new way of creating customer centric software and agile business solutions. iBPM automates not only mundane tasks and key business practices but also dynamic knowledge work.

Gartner introduced the term and acronym iBPM Suites(http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=224913&ref=g_sitelink)

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The Next Wave for Customer-Centric Business Applications and the branding of products and services. Other high-level objectives include improvements in productivity, compliance, cost reduction, as well as innovation by a well-oiled adaptive enterprise with satisfied customers and stakeholders. IT, on the other hand, focuses on providing the necessary support and execution of systems that can help achieve the business objectives, using intensely technical platforms, tools, and primitives. There are legacy and proprietary systems that are difficult to extend. These traditional IT issues—from maintenance to increased backlogs and requirements for new applications—are augmented with new challenges, especially globalization and compliance. Today, organizations are increasingly facing pressures to change and respond to multiple types of challenges. These can come from internal stakeholders, customers, the government, and shareholders alike. As organizations migrate to emerging enterprise solutions, the frequency and magnitude of change is increasing. Market pressures, the need to integrate diverse departments, and global competition are driving management to constantly evolve the ‘rules’ of the business, resulting in a massive increase of changes in business policies and procedures. Since iBPM solutions automate policies and procedures, they stand the best chance of reducing or even eliminating the execution gaps, while allowing the business to keep up with change. The next sections delve into each of the letters of the acronym: “B,” “P,” and “M” as well as the “i” or the intelligence of iBPM. Business: The “B” in iBPM Let’s talk about iBPM, starting with the business. iBPM is not just about technology: It is the discipline of building solutions with a business focus.

As you all know BPM stands for Business Process Management. The immediate question that comes to mind is what a Business Process is?

Wikipedia defines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process  as follows, which is quite easy to understand


A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers. It often can be visualized with a flowchart as a sequence of activities with interleaving decision points or with a Process Matrix as a sequence of activities with relevance rules based on the data in the process.
Let’s see easier definition of BPM 

BPM is the general term for the services and tools that support explicit process management (such as process analysis, definition, execution, monitoring and administration), including support for human and application-level interaction.


In other words a BPM can be treated as a set combination of 


BPM = P2P + A2A + P2A 


(P2P – Person to Person, A2A – Application to Application, P2A – Person to Application). 


When we define a BPM the set of component that completes the BPM architecture. Although most of the components are self explanatory below listed with few one liner description


• Workflow: A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, work of a simple or complex mechanism, work of a group of persons, work of an organization of staff, or machines.


• Portal: Portal is a web system that provides the functions and features to authenticate and identify the users and provide them with an easy, intuitive, personalized and user-customizable web-interface for facilitating access to information and services that are of primary relevance and interests to the users.

• Operational Data Analysis : Operational business intelligence (BI) is a system of reports, metrics, and dashboards designed to drive decisions that optimize a company’s performance in the present.


• Integration: In the BPM context – Integration means linking all the various layers of BPMS architecture seamlessly as well as with other systems that form part of Business process domain . 


• Document Management: In information systems, Document management consists of Digitizing, Indexing, Archiving , Retrieving and Managing documents.


• Identity Management: In information systems, identity management is the management of the identity life cycle of entities (subjects or objects)


• Rules: A business rules engine (BRE) is a software component that allows non-programmers to add or change business logic in a business process management (BPM) system.

• Process Repository: In the BPM context – Process Repository is the collection of Process models – Design time, completed and run time . Typically they are stored as XML models compliant to standards like BPMN. 


• Process services : 
• Monitoring (Business Activity Monitoring BAM ) :
• Lifecycle Management :
• Security :
• Event Management :
• Process Documentation :