Programming technologies will equip programmers with limited built-in functions. Of course, additional frameworks can be implemented on top of them to reduce time to market and deliver solutions faster. But it’s still an old game.
BPMS is definitely a future programming approach and when installed it will equip programmers with tons of features to automate/simulate/analyze processes along with Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Case Management features. An iBPMS is more than just a BPMS with smart business operations features, built-in predictive/adaptive decision capabilities, advanced analytics tools, advanced integrated tools. Highly intuitive design portals will make a programmer more productive and offer cost-effective, model-based solutions. BPMS is an intelligent programming platform with a “give more to end users” approach as opposed to the traditional approach of gathering requirements from scratch. Yes, a BPMS contains built-in functions to enter/update/review work along with electronic document management functions. Business process teams can also report on work using BAM capabilities to monitor task service levels, process quality, user productivity, work assignment, and more. BPMS in a way is attracting the technical community with its no-coding approach that enables IT teams to deliver solutions quickly while generating more return on investment (ROI). As such, there is no benchmark to call a technology like BPMS, except to explore the features related to process modeling, design, optimization, implementation, maintenance and support to take business to the next level in this competitive world. A few years ago there were only a few technology vendors in this field and now all other vendors have BPM/BPMS acronyms widely added to their product features or websites. A simple comparison of traditional programming environments vs. a BPMS/iPBMS will be as follows: An IBPMS is more likely a set of building blocks so designers/programmers can assemble the pieces to meet customer needs with a bunch of information. built-in features for cross-industry needs.
Process automation happens in three simple steps:
1) Understand and feed the requirements into an iBPMS (these are executable requirements that will generate the resulting code for the skeleton applications)
2) Model the processes (single or multi-process) as part of step 1
3) Implement (again using non-coded techniques).
Even Embedded Development Platforms have become Web-based, making infrastructure outsourcing (for hardware and software needs) or cloud computing an easy task. Dev/Test/Production environments are just a few minutes away the moment your check/credit card payment clears.
