Business Process Automation — Combining Best and Next Practices

In order to achieve constant growth and survive long term, enterprises have to innovate continuously. They therefore have to combine best and next business practices. Best practices ensure efficiency; next practices really lead to competitive advantages.Traditional business process automation solutions such as ERP, SCM or CRM systems focus on the implementation of best practices. Next-generation process automation allows the implementation of next practices at an economically acceptable cost level. This is possible through a flexible combination of business process definition and software application support. The appropriate software support is dynamically configured with the business processes definition as a basis so that it enables the execution of enterprise-specific processes.Business process models reflecting best and next practices drive the configuration of next-generation process automation solutions. They become the critical link between strategy and execution.