With more than 3 million users worldwide, SharePoint is Microsoft’s fastest growing technology of all time. With very little learning curve, flexibility in organizing information, easy search and retrieval of valuable information and several other benefits, more and more enterprises now prefer to invest in suites that combine portals, content management and collaboration solutions. Many CIOs will tell you that SharePoint is a critical component of their technology portfolio.

1. Tap into SharePoint potential with BPM software
Tap into SharePoint potential with BPM software
With more than 3 million users worldwide, SharePoint is Microsoft’s fastest growing technology of all
time. With very little learning curve, flexibility in organizing information, easy search and retrieval of
valuable information and several other benefits, more and more enterprises now prefer to invest in
suites that combine portals, content management and collaboration solutions. Many CIOs will tell you
that SharePoint is a critical component of their technology portfolio.
But SharePoint’s somewhat unplanned growth in the last 2 years has led to problems such as insufficient
workflow processes, disorganized content and lack of cohesive site creation strategy. Although the
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 stack includes sites, communities, content, search, insights and composites,
one of its established uses is undoubtedly for improving process management functionality.
Almost every good BPM Software Suite in the market today integrates with Microsoft SharePoint. If you
are already utilizing Microsoft SharePoint for document management and enterprise content
management, then BPM is something you will eventually want to consider to add advanced workflow
capabilities.
Off the myriad business benefits of extending BPM to SharePoint, some key business benefits are:
 Business user empowerment: enhanced collaboration, allowing business managers to build
enterprise wide workflows for processing documents, custom lists and content types in
SharePoint.
 Stronger processes: Centralized process management and analysis. Highly visible processes and
promotes consistent practice of standards thus making processes reliable, repeatable and
manageable.
 Improved productivity: Manage enterprise wide content and automate and streamline business
processes for agile decision making
 Rapid ROI: Efficient processes with reduced processing costs and reduced IT investments
A product like Invensys Skelta’s SharePoint Accelerator extends advanced BPM & workflow
software advantage to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for maximum utilization and broader adoption of
native SharePoint capabilities. It makes sense for Enterprises to leverage existing SharePoint
investments with the added BPM and workflow functionality – code free workflow design, extensibility
of all BPM functionality such as queues, KPIs, dashboards, custom reports, built in SharePoint activities
and wizards within workflows et al … to bring in the entire goodie bag – Process optimization, Quicker
time to market, Operational efficiency across the board and of course better bottom lines.

2. Tap into SharePoint potential with BPM software
Perhaps the best value addition BPM software brings to SharePoint is generating workflows from within
SharePoint using built in SharePoint wizards and activities. Adds meaning to ‘Collaboration’ - both with
dispersed knowledge workers and existing systems that integrate with SharePoint.
As an integrated platform, BPM software with SharePoint also lends itself to business application
development for key areas of business.
By extending security and access rights management to documents in SharePoint, transparent, traceable
processes and enhanced accountability can be enabled across the Enterprise.
In our next post, we discuss how Collaboration can be leveraged across the Enterprise value chain using
BPM and workflow software with SharePoint.
About Skelta Business Process Management
Skelta Business Process Management (BPM) provides enterprises with a strong and collaborative
platform that automates the sequence of human, system and document centric activities that are
required to complete specific business goals. Skelta BPM’s rich features provide tools for graphical
modeling and improving end-to-end business processes.
Apart from being used as a stand-alone BPM software, Skelta BPM is utilized as an embeddable OEM
solution and also as a Business Application Platform to build BPM enabled horizontal solutions such
as Accounts Payable, Document Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Leave Management System
and Human Resource Information System for various industries ranging from Aerospace and Defense,
Automotive, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Banking and Finance and many more.
Skelta BPM enables application composition providing access to functionality from legacy IT assets using
advanced built-in capabilities. Skelta BPM offers a well integrated BPM platform and includes processes,
forms, user management, task management, dashboards, custom controls and queues. In addition,
Skelta BPM provides a wide range of connectors such as BizTalk Connector, SharePoint accelerator.
Extensions include Microsoft SAP LOB Adaptor and to the entire stack of Microsoft Office.
For more information on Skelta BPM, visit www.skelta.com