The software ag process automation – it is a set of logical data processes that utilize application programming to modify data. Software ag solution is a software that allows a business operate its internal operations without pushing the operational tasks to the employees. The software ag workflow is a collection of integrated software solutions designed to carry out business processes offered by an organization to its business partners, employees, and customers.
In the continuously evolving world, this type of software helps organizations adapt to uncertain changes happening around them by ensuring effective management of information as well as processes.
Innovative BPMS from Software AG
Software AG’s webMethods BPMS lets you save both time and money by introducing exceptional visibility, agility and consistency of your business processes. Shining a light across all your operations, this BPM tool empowers you to quickly locate issues, implement and refine processes, and build upon tested best practices to thoroughly plan projects and keep them on track. A full set of optional pre-designed processes, governance solutions and 1,500 sample KPIs help to speed implementation and enable you to tailor your business process management solution to meet your unique needs.
With Business Process Management Software (BPMS), you can:
- Increase efficiency by automatically executing and orchestrating all the steps of a process, including those that must be performed by people or systems
- Enhance transparency by monitoring performance throughout process execution and taking action based on information gleaned from real-time analytics and dashboards
- Resolve issues quickly by rerouting work to other locations, adding temporary resources and creating triage processes
- Improve quality by simplifying processes, avoiding manual errors and empowering employees to follow standardized, optimized processes that can drive down expenses
- Manage change with greater agility, flexible business rules and the ability to make the process changes more quickly
A BPMS with Software AG’s comprehensive capabilities
The webMethods BPM solution delivers everything you need to improve process speed, visibility, consistency and agility. Capabilities include:
- Process execution that let you run perfectly orchestrated processes in a transparent and efficient process landscape
- Business rules management that enable you to define and change rules at any time without requiring the help of developers
- Closed-loop analytics that let you take actions based on alerts from milestones, goals and SLAs
- A customizable inbox that lets you view, act on and collaborate on assigned tasks
- A recommendation engine that guides you to complete tasks faster and more effectively
- Task and team management to improve how people interact with your processes
- Business activity monitoring to catch process problems in real time and prevent them from impacting customers or revenue
Enterprise process management, simplified
Reach your mission of “operational excellence” with ARIS. Start by documenting your agency’s processes and putting all process assets in a centralized repository. A process portal makes it easy to share process assets. Go next level with your processes by governing, measuring and controlling them. Know how to improve your processes, continuously, with process mining.
Process automation for increased productivity
Deliver unprecedented productivity gains and increased effectiveness to help you shape and scale your manual processes organization-wide. ARIS gives you a fast and efficient way to map your strategy and processes to your IT and automate them for higher productivity.
Add the power of robotic process transformation (RPA) and Internet of Things connectivity while syncing your processes to your trusted systems—like SAP solutions—to quickly move toward operational excellence.
Put bots to work for you with RPA
RPA-enabled bots built into your processes at a desktop or server can be deployed in days from ARIS—with no integrations or changes to your systems and applications.LEARN MORE
Make IoT projects a success
Using ARIS in your Internet of Things projects ensures transparency from strategy to monitoring results. Deliver products built with smarter processes.
Get best-in-class SAP solutions
Assure success when blueprinting for S/4HANA, preparing training with SAP Enable Now or implementing SAP based on SAP Solution Manager.LEARN MORE
Simplify process automation
Sync your operational business goals and corporate strategy with the needs of IT. Make process automation easy and pain free with ARIS automation and connectivity.
Model & Design Processes
- Document and align agency processes with your mission
- Use 100+ model types to map and analyze your organization
- Create models quickly using standards like BPMN™ 2.0 and DMN™
- Cut modeling time by using smart modeling and Windows® clipboard imports
Fast ROI with robotic process automation
RPA improves the cost, efficiency and quality of many back-office processes. Improve reliability through continuous delivery, accuracy in calculations and processing, and consistency by identically executing processes and tasks by using RPA. Automation helps people get more done in less time.
Reduce SAP project duration by 40%
To ensure business processes are reflected in your SAP solution with high quality and minimal risk, ARIS for SAP Solutions connects to your SAP landscape and offers deep integration with SAP Solution Manager. Create process-based tests in ARIS for conducting end-to-end testing in SAP. Define and support requirements for successful migration to SAP S/4 HANA. Integrate to SAP Enable Now for better employee training.
Get more value from IoT projects
Use ARIS for your Internet of Things projects to increase knowledge and detail implementation processes for device analysis and alignment, for example. ARIS helps you ensure transparency from strategy to goal setting and results monitoring. Visualizations helps you measure performance and KPIs in real time.
IMPROVE OPERATIONAL SPEED, VISIBILITY & AGILITY
Build, deploy and monitor dynamic process applications. Accelerate your business by automating processes using webMethods BPMS process and workflow management tools. By eliminating manual activities and inconsistent processes, you can increase productivity, improve accountability and reduce errors. Using process analytics, you can even discover and resolve business problems before customer impact.
BUILD, DEPLOY & MONITOR DYNAMIC PROCESS APPLICATIONS
- Quickly implement process-driven solutions using your current IT landscape
- Increase efficiency by orchestrating people, systems and data
- Meet SLAs and manage exceptions using real-time analytics
- Engage with users across channels
IMPROVE PROCESS INTELLIGENCE & INSIGHT
Discover a wealth of information about your processes. Gain insights through real-time process analytics, dashboards and alerting to identify bottlenecks and other issues as soon as they occur. Take action based on those insights before customer impact with webMethods Optimize for Process, which integrates seamlessly with webMethods BPMS.
When you’re trying to convince your leadership team to invest in asset management software, numbers speak louder than words.
While discussing the benefits of increased efficiency and asset reliability can start the conversation, you need estimated cost savings to build your case.
Here’s how to calculate a clear-cut return on investment to justify your purchase.
3 steps to calculate the ROI of asset management software
Step 1: Calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO)
Before you can calculate ROI, you need to fully account for the costs involved in purchasing asset management software. This includes one-time upfront costs as well as ongoing, long-term costs. Here are a few items to consider:
Initial purchase costs
To calculate the software purchase and licensing costs, you need to look at the pricing model closely. In some cases, this is a variable cost based on the number of users. Other software vendors have a standard monthly or annual subscription fee. Some EAM softwares offer custom pricing depending on your needs. Take the time to talk with each vendor you’re considering as you evaluate your options.
IT infrastructure costs
If you decide to set up your infrastructure on premise, you’ll need to determine the hardware costs along with software licenses. This will likely require additional IT investments. Fortunately, if you opt for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) asset management solution, you can eliminate these upfront costs. Instead, you’ll just need to determine how many users or modules you’ll need and make sure each user is equipped with a laptop, tablet, or mobile device to access your EAM software.
Setup costs or transition costs
Many EAM software vendors charge a one-time fee for installation and setup. If you’re switching from one system to another (such as moving from a CMMS to EAM) you will need to factor in additional time for onboarding and training your team.
Ongoing maintenance, support, and upgrade costs
When it comes to maintaining and upgrading your asset management software, this is another case where SaaS solutions offer a clear advantage. On-premise software updates can involve significant costs, planning and time. That’s assuming you have a dedicated IT team to handle them. With a SaaS model, the software vendor rolls out updates to all users as needed. The cost of those upgrades is typically factored into your monthly subscription fee.
Step 2: Estimate your savings from asset management software
Once you figure out the TCO, you’ll need to estimate how much you expect to save.
Asset management software savings can come in various forms, so you’ll likely need to talk with several people at your organization and analyze data from different sources.
Here are four areas to focus on:
Savings from better asset life cycle management
To determine this component, you need to estimate the percentage improvement in the asset life you expect to gain using your EAM system. Then, you can calculate the savings as expected increase in asset life multiplied by the total fixed asset costs.
Savings from reduced equipment downtime
EAM solutions are expected to reduce downtime hours and associated costs. Take a look at what those costs amounted to in the previous year and set a realistic target for reducing them.
How much would your organization save if you reduced your equipment downtime by just 10%? This will give you a good sense of your expected savings.
Savings from reduced labor
For every unplanned downtime or unscheduled maintenance activity your team handles, you also incur overtime hour costs. Using enterprise asset management software to schedule preventive maintenance can significantly reduce these costs. Asset management systems also give you greater transparency into how your team is spending their time. If you’re using software with a mobile app, technicians can complete tasks and log their hours from anywhere.
Savings from improved inventory management
Inventory management can be tricky. While you want to have the necessary parts available when you need them, you also want to avoid high storage costs that can come from keeping a large stockpile on hand.
The transparency you get from using an asset management solution can help you estimate your stock more accurately and generate savings. Savings from better asset tracking equals the total cost of carrying unnecessary parts.
To calculate these numbers accurately, you need a thorough understanding of your processes. If this proves too difficult and you’d rather refer to industry averages, this guide by our maintenance management partner, Hippo, can help. You can also look at case studies within your industry to get a better idea of your potential savings.
Step 3: Calculate expected returns
Now that you have an idea of the estimated costs and savings from your EAM software, you can calculate your returns. Follow this simple equation:
ROI% = 100 x (Total savings – TCO)/TCO
Congratulations — you have successfully quantified your expected savings! Now you can take this information to your leadership team and present an airtight case to justify your investment.
Conclusion
Workflow is a procedure or process by which a task (or set of tasks) is handled in an orderly and systematic manner, usually with the completion of one task before the next task is begun. A workflow is usually controlled by a computer program or electronic device and can be either open or closed — some — mix the two — all depending on your level of control and automation versus manual operations.