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DEFINITION - Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to improving an organization's business processes. BPM activities seek to make business processes more effective, more efficient, and more capable of adapting to an ever-changing environment. BPM is a subset of infrastructure management, the administrative area of concern dealing with maintenance and optimization of an organization's equipment and core operations.

A business process is a set of coordinated tasks and activities, conducted by both people and equipment, that will lead to accomplishing a specific organizational goal. The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a non-profit organization, exists to promote the standardization of common business processes, as a means of furthering e-business and business-to-business (B2B) development. To this end, the organization has developed the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based metalanguage for modeling business processes.

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Business process management strategies for enterprise CIOs: Establishing a business process management strategy is no easy task, particularly for enterprise companies. Learn more about BPM with the best practices, case studies and tools in this guide.

LAST UPDATED: 09 Dec 2008

Read more about business process management:
- The Business Process Management Initiative has a Web site.
- SearchWebServices.com has an article, "BPMI.org releases draft of BPM Notation 1.0."


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