According to Gartner, business process improvement is the top priority for CIOs. In 2009, more than 57 percent of CIOs reported this as one of their top five business expectations. Source: Gartner EXP (January 2009) http://www.pnmsoft.com/news/article823.aspx

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Business Process Management (BPM) is not new to organizations but it is becoming more and more relevant especially now with the emerging SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) paradigm. Organizations can use BPM quite effectively to realize processes that spawn multiple systems and human actors. The core of BPM is to bridge the gap between business and IT groups. Business people can define the business processes in a graphical manner and IT people can use these processes to map to underlying IT systems.

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eXtendCode offers BPM services for both SAP and Microsoft platforms.

1. Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation is a framework that enables users to create system or human workflows in their applications written for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and the Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

2. SAP NetWeaver BPM represents customer extensibility of the SAP platform through graphical modeling. It provides a unified environment containing three composition tools for creating composite views (information screens or mash-ups), composite services, and composite processes. SAP NetWeaver BPM, for composite processes, provides the core of a BPM Suite (BPMS) based on the NetWeaver platform. It supports the full BPM lifecycle, from graphical design of activity flows, task user interfaces, process roles and task management, business rules, data, and events to runtime execution to process monitoring and business intelligence reporting.