Best Practicable Means; within a particular waste management option, the level of management and engineering control that minimises, as far as practicable, the release of radioactivity to the environment whilst taking account of a wide range of factors, including cost-effectiveness, technological status, operational safety, and social and environmental factors
Business Project Manager - A person representing the business who has decision making authority for the user community. They are responsible for assignment of users to the project team and to develop user guides, office procedures and user training. Further, they identify users to be interviewed, users to participate in review walkthroughs and inspections. They also will identify users who will participate in testing, development of test scripts, test cases and test data. Additionally, they will resolve user conflicts, be a focal point for change control, prioritize user requests and keep the user community informed of project status.
Business Process Modeling, A method used to model existing business processes using analysis-level dynamic modeling techniques.
A general term describing a set of services and tools that provide for explicit process management, including process analysis, definition, execution, monitoring and administration. Ideally, BPM should include support for both human and application-level interactions. The workflow market has been a significant source of BPM, although forms of BPM are now emerging from many other sources, such as collaborative applications, integration brokers, Web integration servers, development tools, rules engines and e-commerce offerings.
A process that links business strategy to IT system development to ensure business value. It combines workflow, functional, organizational and data/resource views with underlying metrics such as costs, cycle times and responsibilities to provide a foundation for analyzing value chains, activity-based costs, bottlenecks, critical paths and inefficiencies.
business process model. the architecture work product produced during business engineering that documents the customer organization’s business processes.
Business performance management. See enterprise PM.
Stands for the continuous adaptation of a company's business processes, organizational structures, and IT environments to meet market requirements. BPM ranges from analysis and optimization of processes to the implementation in software to the automatic control and measurement of their processes and key performance indicators which enable the organization to flexibly adapt to the needs of the market and the company.
Acronym for Beam Position Monitor. This device determines the position of the beam. A Processing module connected to it (BPMP) converts the analog voltages to digital values which can be read by the micro
Business Process Management. The concept of shepherding work items through a multi-step process. The items are identified and tracked as they move through each step, with either specified people or applications processing the information. The process flow is determined by process logic and the applications (or processes) themselves play virtually no role in determining where the messages are sent.
See Business Process Management (BPM)
Business Process Management. Refers to aligning processes with an organization's strategic goals, designing and implementing process architectures, establishing process measurement systems that align with organizational goals, and educating and organizing managers so that they will manage processes effectively. Business Process Management or BPM can also refer to various automation efforts, including workflow systems, XML Business Process languages and packaged ERP systems. In this case the management emphasizes the ability of workflow engines to control process flows, automatically measure processes, and to change process flows from a computer terminal.
business process modeling. An analysis and design activity performed by business consultants within a company to model both the current state of an enterprise and the intended future state by using BPM tools. Usually, to move from the current state to the future state requires IT transformation.
Business Process Management is the function of correctly directing a flow of work items through a systematic multi-step process. The items are identified and tracked as they move through each step, with either specific people or applications processing the information within an allotted time.
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Business Process Management. A systems approach to the management of processes, based on the management of process knowledge, control of process performance and conformance, continual improvement of processes, and customer satisfaction.
Business Process Management. Business Process Management defines, enables, and manages the exchange of enterprise information through the semantics of a business process view that involves employees, customers, partners, applications and databases. It has to be capable of modeling a process, brokering that process, delivering it with straight through processing (STP), and then managing it, all within a single environment. Because of its far reaching implications for the ability of enterprises to adapt, it is much more than a technology fad but a management issue that needs to be on senior management's agenda, driving the IT support of the business. (Source: Aberdeen Group)
Business Performance Management; also known as CPM and EPM. The combination of planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, reporting, strategy planning and scorecarding tools. Most vendors using the term do not offer the full set of components, so they adjust their version of the definition to suit their own product set.
BPM (Business Process Management) is by no means a new IT system. BPM flexibly and transparently unites communication processes, document-based processes, business processes, and administration processes. This means that the top priority of BPM cannot be entirely set on data, but rather on achieving coordination of company wide workflows.
Business Performance Management. Applications that help direct modeling or scenario exploration activities. Rather than simply exploring what happened and why, the application can help the user consider the implications of alternative courses of action before they become operational. Performance management suggests an explicit relationship to action, and modeling is the key link to do this.
See Business Process Modeler.
Business Process Management. The act of defining, executing, managing and evolving the practices and procedures that define how an organization makes business decisions and acts on those decisions. The process flow is determined by process logic and the applications (or processes) themselves play virtually no role in determining where the messages are sent. Return to alphabetic index at the top of the page
ballistic particle manufacturing. A rapid prototyping process which deposits materials by means of inkjet technology. At one time the term was used to refer to a specific company's technology, BPM, Inc., now defunct, but prior to that it was an early generic term for inkjet-based RP. The term is not often used at present.
Stands for Business Process Management. BPM is a business improvement strategy based on documenting, analyzing, and redesigning processes for greater performance.
The process of integrating and managing an enterprise's processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
The term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to a set of activities which organizations can perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. As these activities are usually aided by software tools, the term BPM is synonymously used to refer to the software tools themselves.