Barium Live and BPMN
In the last weeks, I have been evaluating a tool for managing process inside my company. You know, there are some repetitive tasks that in the old good days will be managed with a Printed page and moving this page from one person to another one.
I remember, as an example, the form that we used to hire someone new on the company (you have to go for the CEO to obtain his signature, and after this giving the page to the HR person...).
In the past years, we have implemented some of this functionality on the intranet, but this needs some software development, and it is difficult to change the processes once they are deployed. This is the reason why I have been looking for a tool that can help to develop or provide this solutions.
I have found two different solutions.
- One of them it is IBM Blueworks live: This seems to be a less formal tool, for companies with not very formal processes.
- The other one it is Barium Live. I will explain with more detail this solution.
Barium live it is a SAAS solution (you have everything on the web). This tool it is built around two paradigms:
- The process diagram.
- The forms related with the process.
You have a editor to describe the processes (something similar to Visio), and a editor to create the different forms that you are going to use on the process. With this tool, It is very easy to create a enrollment form, and describe the different steps that should follow the form to complete the Work flow.
From my point of view it can be a very useful tool for medium to big companies, where there are already some process with a defined work flow where it is needed to automate the different processes.
The tool has the possibility of sending e-mails when the forms reach some steps on the work flow, so it is easy to integrate this tool with your already existing infrastructure.
I will provide in an additional post my opinion for this tool, my first evaluation it is very good, but let´s see how the rest of the users inside my company feels once we start to use the tool inside the company.
I remember, as an example, the form that we used to hire someone new on the company (you have to go for the CEO to obtain his signature, and after this giving the page to the HR person...).
In the past years, we have implemented some of this functionality on the intranet, but this needs some software development, and it is difficult to change the processes once they are deployed. This is the reason why I have been looking for a tool that can help to develop or provide this solutions.
I have found two different solutions.
- One of them it is IBM Blueworks live: This seems to be a less formal tool, for companies with not very formal processes.
- The other one it is Barium Live. I will explain with more detail this solution.
Barium live it is a SAAS solution (you have everything on the web). This tool it is built around two paradigms:
- The process diagram.
- The forms related with the process.
You have a editor to describe the processes (something similar to Visio), and a editor to create the different forms that you are going to use on the process. With this tool, It is very easy to create a enrollment form, and describe the different steps that should follow the form to complete the Work flow.
From my point of view it can be a very useful tool for medium to big companies, where there are already some process with a defined work flow where it is needed to automate the different processes.
The tool has the possibility of sending e-mails when the forms reach some steps on the work flow, so it is easy to integrate this tool with your already existing infrastructure.
I will provide in an additional post my opinion for this tool, my first evaluation it is very good, but let´s see how the rest of the users inside my company feels once we start to use the tool inside the company.
posted by Miguel Angel at 2:06 PM
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