Newgen's Intelligent Business Process Suite (iBPS) provides a platform for collaboratively designing, executing, and monitoring intelligent business processes. It features collaborative process modeling, support for mobility, social media integration, real-time analytics, complex event processing, and dynamic case management. The suite's analytics engine performs active, predictive, and on-demand analytics on business data and processes. iBPS allows enterprises to gain operational intelligence and responsiveness through continuous process improvements.
2. Introduction
Why do Modern Enterprises need What Makes Your Business
Intelligent Processes? Operations Intelligent?
Enterprises today are facing unprecedented business Enterprises today, are increasingly realizing the
pressures owing to globalization, increased importance of collaborating with key business
competition, market consolidation, ever-changing stakeholders to achieve operational excellence and
regulatory norms, and demand for better customer accelerate business innovation. While mobility is no
service. The current conventional operations lack longer an option, integration of social interactions
situational awareness; decisions are based on with business operations has become a key success
inflexible and hardcoded rules and policies and the strategy. Business intelligence which traditionally
processes are manual and rigid. The growing used to be at an arm’s length with actual operational
phenomena of social, mobile, cloud, and analytics processes, is now needed to provide both active,
are further fueling the dynamic environment. real-time analytics and predictive analytics using CEP
& other statistical analytic tools.
The key to success in such an environment is
continual adaption by being agile and proactive in Collaboration—Collaboration amongst the key
responding to change. Enterprises need to leverage stakeholders-business leaders, business analysts,
changing customer and market behavior, by having process owners, business users, and IT, right from
a better understanding of the evolving customer process designing to execution, and monitoring, to
needs, to innovate with iterative and measurable enable continuous process improvements, is the key
improvements. to achieving operational excellence and accelerating
business innovation.
An Intelligent Business Process Management Suite
provides enterprises a holistic approach for Mobility— With the rise in penetration of mobile
adaptability. The solution enables continuous devices, shifting to mobility has become inevitable
process improvement by eliminating redundancy in for any business, in order to sustain in an
operations, while increasing the efficiency and increasingly competitive business landscape.
quality of products and services. The automation Incorporating mobility in their business process
framework allows support for structured production management strategy, enterprises can now be closer
workflows, as well as collaborative unstructured to their customers and also enable key stakeholders
dynamic cases. Process intelligence integrates real- to collaborate on processes 24x7.
time analytics and decision management Support for Social Media Interactions—The
technologies into the day-to-day operations of a pervasiveness of social media has made it an
business. indispensible component of the business strategy of
any intelligent business enterprise. It allows external
stakeholders such as consumers and partners to
participate in the creation and execution of
services/products. Further, social media analytics
data adds to the analytical capabilities of the
business.
Extended Active & Predictive Analytic
Capabilities—Expanding the scope of process
analytics to encompass predictive analysis tools
along with real-time Business Activity Monitoring
(BAM), results in enhanced operational intelligence,
improved process visibility, and better business
responsiveness.
Complex Event Processing Tools—Complex Event
Processing (CEP) enables real-time analysis of
events. The most current streams of events are
analyzed during runtime, to detect event patterns,
allowing process stakeholders to assess the situation
and respond appropriately to emerging threats and
opportunities.
3. Newgen's Intelligent
Business Process
Suite (iBPS)
Newgen's Intelligent Business Process Suite (iBPS),
for smart business operations, provides a platform
for all business stakeholders, including process
architects and IT users, to collaborate for designing
and executing intelligent business processes. The
new iBPS with active, on-demand, and predictive
analytics, support for social media interactions, and
complex event processing capabilities, lays the
foundation for a business system which can facilitate
smart decisions for dynamic process routing,
allocation of tasks to the right users, and triggering
of actions based on complex events. iBPS provides
support for mobile devices enabling the mobile
workforce to make intelligent business decisions on-
the-go, by allowing anytime, anywhere access to key
In addition, iBPS is also available on cloud. Newgen
business information. Equipped with state-of-the-art
has selected Amazon’s AWS platform and HP’s Cloud
trend analysis and slicing & dicing of data facility,
Map platform to host its cloud offerings.
Newgen's iBPS is the key to 'Intelligent Business
Operations'.
Porcess artifacts form Collaborative
fragments content Process Designing Simulation
Types & Optimization
Process
Repository Process Process
Modeler Simulator
Intuitive Personalized
DMS / RMS Interface Content Portal Based user desk
Management Workdesk
Business
Rules Integrations Human & system task
Management Adapters integration-web services,
System JMS, XML, API’s, SAP,
Rules Engine EJB & GUI adapters
Execution
Engine
Security &
Directory Complex Event
Services Processing
Business Social Media
Active Directory Activity Integration
Monitoring Gamification
Real-time Dashboard
iBPS Components
4. Key Components
Collaborative Process Modeling
Newgen's Process Modeler is a user-friendly drag &
drop modeling tool that lets different users, namely
Business Owners, Business Analysts, Process
Architects, Business Users and IT Users, to work on a
real time collaborative basis to design all aspects of
the business process, user experiences, implement
rules and integrations. The modeler provides
different views of the same business process for
different audience so that it becomes easy for them
to understand, participate, and agree. The
collaborative Chat option enables domain experts
and process stakeholders to discuss various aspects
of the process. Users can interact with other authors,
and simultaneously update the process diagram,
avoiding redundancy and saving time and effort. Mobility
iBPS supports Mobility, enabling real-time
collaboration between process stakeholders. It
provides business users with anytime-anywhere
access to work-related processes and information,
on mobile devices, improving the responsiveness
and overall performance of the business.
With support for mobile devices, iBPS helps
businesses improve customer communications,
enhance customers' experiences, and increase
productivity, while keeping a check on costs, and
mitigating operational risks. Moreover, mobility has
made customer-self service a reality, providing
customers with anytime-anywhere access to their
customer profiles using mobile devices.
iBPS comes with three different mobility apps:
ZapIn Mobile Capture Application – It helps
business executives, on-the-move, to capture
customer information and instantly initiate its
processing at the back-office. The key to the
application is our advanced image processing that
ensures high quality images and minimal size
making it viable to be transferred over a
GPRS/3G/4G networks.
Mobile OmniDocs – It provides access to Newgen's
Enterprise Content Management capabilities on
mobile devices, for creating, capturing, managing,
delivering, and archiving large volumes of content.
Mobile OmniFlow – It enables access to Newgen's
proven Business Process Management capabilities
on mobile devices, for creation, deployment,
modification and management of Business
Collaborative Process Modeler Processes.
5. Real-time Analytics
Events
Complex Event Processing
Active Analytics Cloud
Predictive Analytics
Actions
On-Demand Analytics
Business Activity Monitoring Mobility
Rules Management ECM & BPM
Process Simulation
Events
Actions
Collaboration
External
Environment
Analytics Engine
Internal Environment
Social Media Integration Analytics Engine
Customers today spend a considerable amount of The iBPS Analytics Engine is responsible for
time on social-media platforms; hence it becomes slicing and dicing of process data and for
imperative for businesses to leverage social-media active, on-demand and predictive analysis. The
to engage with customers and prospects. Further, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) component
social media analytics can be used to gauge of the Analytics Engine, boasts advanced active
customer preferences. iBPS comes with ready- analytics capabilities. It generates customized
adapters for social media, allowing businesses to alerts based on the rules defined in the
identify prospects, acquire new customers, cross- dashboards, allowing business users to take
sell/up-sell products/services, and manage service corrective actions in real-time, as the process is
requests, using social platforms. For example being executed. Process analytics enable
customers can use social media channels such as continuous process improvement, by enabling
Facebook or Twitter to initiate service requests such the process to learn from experiences and
as complaints, queries, feedback, etc. perform better over time. For example, during
the procurement process, the system applies
iBPS facilitates a collaborative work environment
analytics to identify vendors that provide best
with tools such as To-Do Lists, Discussion Forums,
value in terms of cost of procurement, turn-
Newsletters, Announcements, Chats, Question &
around time, quality, etc., and shortlists these
Answer Sessions, Bulletin Boards, etc. Using these
vendors to send requests for future
tools, individual as well as team workspaces can be
procurement requirements. Process
created for better process performance. This extends
improvement is also achieved through
process visibility and ensures users' participation in
extensive process performance reporting and
processes across the enterprise.
on-demand analytics. Further, BAM allows
process owners to easily design reports, define
KPIs, and set control charts, helping them
monitor the process both in real time
through dashboards, and offline
through alerts and
notifications. Newgen's
iBPS also supports
integration with
external analytic tools
for enhanced
predictive analysis
of data.
6. Dynamic Case Management Complex Event Processing
Newgen iBPS comes with comprehensive Case Newgen iBPS supports the definition, subscription,
Management functionality, with strong Document and robust handling of business events, to assess
Management, Imaging, Scanning, Records future market opportunities and potential threats
Management, and BPM, capabilities to support that can impact your business. IBPS is loaded with
unstructured processes. It allows systematic extensive capabilities to define exceptions in
collaboration of individuals in a structured or ad- processes and trigger actions associated with events.
hoc manner to process a particular case. It is ideally An event can be created by specifying its attributes
suited for processes that are non-deterministic, such as name, type, severity, etc. iBPS enables
cannot be modeled at the beginning, driven by multiple sub-processes to subscribe to a single
human decisions, and content centric. The suite event. Further, iBPS integrates with other systems,
provides knowledge workers the flexibility to for processing external events.
improvise based on the context, and situation at
hand, but at the same time ensures that some broad
guidelines are being adhered to. It guides the
decision-maker, through intelligent correlation of
similar situations faced in the past, and helps him
re-use that knowledge.
Dynamic Case File Management
Process Task
Record
Management
Indexes
History Actions
Discussions Deadlines
Security Alerts
& Status
Reporting and
Dashboards
ile
Case F
7. iBPS Engine Process Simulator
The iBPS Engine is the backbone of the solution. It The iBPS Process Simulator facilitates predictive
controls process workflows and maintains the analysis and future planning allowing businesses to
integrity of process definitions. It supports standard define what-if scenarios using real data, and
workflow operations such as initiation of work, simulate business processes with various resource
processing of rules, sequential, parallel, and ad-hoc assignments and simulation volumes. This enables
routing of work, etc. The workflow server performs business organizations to adapt to changing market
certain periodic housekeeping functions to maintain dynamics in real time, ensuring deployment of the
the integrity of the workflow processes, check for process that delivers optimum value.
expiry of documents, and determine if any process is
stalled. The workflow server is designed to cater to Document and Content Interaction
high-volume transaction processing environments,
by providing load balancing to prevent bottlenecks. iBPS is seamlessly integrated with the content
The iBPS Engine can be deployed on any standard management engine, providing comprehensive
application server such as BEA WebLogic™, IBM support for search, archival, and document life cycle
WebSphere™, JBoss, and Oracle 10g. management. Flexibility to initiate processes
through various content capture points such as
document scanning, email, fax, document filing in
Business Rule Management System content repository, etc.
Dynamic rules can be defined in Newgen's Business
Rule Management System. This eliminates the need
to define/embed business rules or policies in the
Process Component
process while retaining the process routing logic. Registry/Repository
The rules can be changed in runtime in the specific
The robust process repository of iBPS stores process
applications and immediately executed in the
definitions, process snippets, e-form fragments,
process, without any need to change the process.
rules, and process metadata, along with predefined
business objects, for all processes modeled and
executed using iBPS process modeler. These process
components can be reused and customized to adapt
to specific situations, enhancing the adaptability and
responsiveness of your business to change.
8. About Newgen
• Leading Global Provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Customer
Communication Management (CCM)
• 900 installations across 50 countries
• Solutions for Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, BPO/SSCs, Telecom and Government
• Credited with some of the world's largest implementations
• Innovative culture, consistent R&D investments, 35 patents
• Employee strength 1100+
• Certified for ISO 9001:2008, ISO 27001:2005 and CMMI Level3
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