Why such a long silence on this blog, while BPM in the Cloud, Process as a Service, etc, became fairly trendy? Simply put, we let other vendors write about it, and we concentrate on delivering it.
RunMyProcess ambition is to offer the most reliable and easiest to use Process as a Service platform: this implies a tremendous work in cloud-based engineering and in understanding customers' expectations. Whether we get close from our objective is best explained by our customers. University of Georgia (Athens, GA) is one of our North American customers; Prof. Bob Bostrom and Jeff Howells from the Terry College of Business provide their insight on RunMyProcess:
At the University of Georgia ( USA ) we teach Business Process Management courses to both undergraduates studying in our Management of Information Systems ( MIS ) program and ( as an elective course ) to our MBA students. This semester we taught BPM courses to 125 undergraduates ( in three sections ) and 30 MBAs.
One of the challenges in teaching BPM is that while it is relatively easy to teach modeling and simulation - and assign the students hands-on exercises to test their understanding, teaching about the execution of processes once they are developed is much more difficult. This is because most BPM systems require a strong software development background and extensive product training.
RunMyProcess allows us to give students the experience of modeling processes, executing them and reviewing activity monitoring reports - the complete BPM life-cycle. RunMyProcess also has many external services available that are all ready configured. This allows processes to interface to outside (mostly cloud based) services very easily.
Since the product is 100% cloud based, set up is fast and the user interface (particularly the forms builder) is a model of clarity. Training videos help students get started quickly.
We would recommend the use of RunMyProcess both in teaching and in pilot programs in companies. BPM pilot projects with RunMyProcess can involve both business and technical people - often a major challenge for more established BPM vendors. In many situations, RunMyProcess could an ideal tool for redesigning and automating a process.
