There has been a lot of development and discussions going around about the social computing and the BPM area. As social media is at its best in the market these days, BPM vendors giving a big thought to use the same. There are lots of examples to follow the developments like ARIS Align, SAP Gravity, Oracle BPM 11g, Pega, Lombardi and list continues.
Social computing is among the main attraction in Oracle BPM 11g launch. ARIS Align is also very impressive thought.
With this post I want to discuss the practicality of social media features in BPM and obviously business benefits out of that. To start with here is my list of social media features that is relevant for BPM:
- Tasks collaboration for Process discovery and definition: Customized workspaces for teams/groups.
- Process Transparency: Business visibility
- Event driven real time alerts and updates: BAM, mashups and notification alerts.
The features of wikis, blogs and to share with social groups sound very interesting to me. I was discussing the benefits of collaborative BPM in one of the discussion “BPM & Google Wave” and found some interesting use cases.