A business process 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.
Business process automation, or BPA, is the strategy a business uses to automate processes in order to contain costs.
Source: Wikipedia
Implementing a large and complex automated system is cost-prohibitive and usually overkill for the simpler requirements of a small or medium enterprise. Further, the personnel cost of managing and maintaining a large scale system simply cannot be justified.
NuMonitor™ helps enterprises drive process automation and coordination without the cost and complexity. By delivering capability and value, NuMonitor™ can pay for itself in months by reducing manual labour, preventing rework, and speeding execution.
Many manual tasks can be automated by using a simple agent running periodically. NuMonitor™ thus extends the cron type scheduler capability at the enterprise level, allowing a wider range of users to automate their manual tasks. For example if a sales manager wants to get the report of his sales team by the end of day or end of month he need not worry about looking into a bunch of files and database tables. He will have to just create a scheduler and define its execution time. The reports will be delivered at his desk on time and without any fuss.
NuMonitor™ complies with the WS-BPEL standard, which enables easy porting of business workflow between various business process automation tools. Please refer to my next post on WS-BPEL for more details.
Anjesh