Solution Providers

Appian

Website: www.appian.com

Appian is the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM). Appian provides the fastest way to deploy robust processes, collapsing time to value for new process initiatives. Businesses and governments worldwide use Appian to accelerate process improvement and drive business performance. Appian empowers more than 2.5 million users from large Fortune 100 companies, to the mid-market and small businesses worldwide. Appian is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. region with its EMEA headquarters located in London, with professional services and partners around the globe

Oracle

Website: www.oracle.com

The Financial services is an industry in upheaval. Different challenges exist and need to be managed across differing industry segments such as retail financial services, insurance, wholesale and capital markets. However, a number of key themes can be identified at the macro-level across the industry that are causing strategic and operational pain visible at the highest levels of the financial institutions. These pains have significant impact on IT functions and the product provider landscape. The success of any technology is dependent upon meeting these challenges and assisting an organisation in meeting its strategic objectives. There is strong evidence to suggest that companies who have identified and where possible automated the processes that are core to their business have significant advantage over their competitors. Oracle BPM technology is designed to provide greater participation by the business by incorporating User-Centric Design, it has extended collaboration with Social BPM to include Web2.0 communication and rests soundly on a Unified Process Foundation that removes complexity and addresses all types of business processes.

Cordys

Website: www.cordys.com

The Cordys software and methodology enables Financial Services organizations to dramatically increase the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their business operations. The unique combination of Business Process Management and Cloud technology in the Cordys platform complements existing enterprise software while adding business agility to Financial Services organisations. Be it banking, middle and back office efficiencies, claims processing in insurance or a move to the Cloud, Cordys gives Financial Services companies the platform to be more efficient, more innovative and to differentiate themselves from ever increasing competition.

Be Informed

Be Informed is an independent software supplier specialising in solutions for complex and knowledge-intensive business processes. Using our software, organisations improve their interactions with customers,

streamline working processes and achieve substantial gains in efficiency.

Be Informed has been developed to enable organisations to respond quickly to changes in their business environment such as changing customer wishes, technological developments or the need to implement new legislation. To do this, Be Informed offers a suite of products that enables organisations to:

• design, manage and analyse all aspects of their business;
• straight through processing of complex cases;
• support manual handling of services (decision support and case management);
• context-specific delivery of information and knowledge;
• apply knowledge in e-forms, dossiers and applications.

DST Global Solutions

Website: www.dstglobalsolutions.com

DST Global Solutions is a leading provider of technology solutions to many of the world’s best known financial, utilities, telecoms and communications institutions. We serve over 400 clients in 45 countries, with five regional operational hubs and 16 offices to support our growing client base.

Our AWD platform is a scalable, functionally rich BPM solution that has helped organisations reduce cost, improve customer service, ensure compliance and improve overall operational efficiency. There are now over one hundred thousand AWD users within the DST family of companies, partners and clients.

JMP

Website: www.jmp.com

JMP is a software product from SAS, the worlds largest privately held software company. Through visual analytics, JMP enables a greater proportion of users to quickly and effectively solve problems based on data. Visual Analytics simplifies data analysis processes, is easy to learn and use, and enables a broader spectrum of technical and business users to gain insight into their processes. Contact: Adrian Turner, JMP Division, SAS Institute, Wittington House, Henley Road, Medmenham, Marlow, SL7 2EB, UK.

KM&T

For more information, visit www.kmandt.com

KM&T are a worldwide business improvement consultancy that provides ’best practice’ business performance solutions, with established offices in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australasia and the USA. Our global presence combined with our strategic and associate partnerships provides the ability to offer local support to small through to international businesses operating in multi territory site operations.

We offer professional advice in the strategic and practical deployment of Lean and Six-Sigma methodologies. Our mission is to transfer knowledge to enable your organisation to produce cost effective and efficient ways in which to generate savings, increase profitability and return on business investments in a reduced timescale.

Metastorm

Website: www.metastorm.com

With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA) and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution.

By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value.

Metastorm continues to deliver on its strategy to be a market leader and innovator for software and solutions that drive enterprise effectiveness and optimization. Its ability to establish and sustain leadership has made Metastorm an ideal partner for organizations seeking proven technology, a commitment to innovation, and long-term growth.

Minitab

Website: www.minitab.co.uk

Minitab® is the leading provider of software for quality improvement. Our flagship product Minitab Statistical Software is trusted by organisations worldwide to analyse their data and ensure excellence. Minitab also offers Quality Companion®, a process management application which provides everything you need to manage your Lean Six Sigma and improvement projects. These software products are supported by our e-learning programme, Quality Trainer®, as well as world class training and exceptional service.

Open Text

Website: www.opentext.com

With 2 decades of experience helping organisations around the world overcome the challenges associated with managing business content, Open Text stands unmatched in the Enterprise Content Management market.

A sound approach to content management is essential for organisations looking to thrive in the dynamic and volatile financial services market. Financial Service providers operate in one of the most competitive and highly regulated business environments of any industry. Not only are organisations within this industry subject to intense global competition, but also they are always vying to carve out impenetrable niches of business and consumer products and services.

With more than 50,000 successful deployments globally, and by fostering truly collaborative relationships with our customers and business partners, Open Text has developed a keen understanding of how content flows throughout an enterprise and how organisations can leverage it to drive growth, mitigate risk, and generate business advantage.

Sigma UK

Website: www.sigma-uk.com

Sigma was established in 1986 to provide benefit realisation services to help those investing in technology and change to maximise their return. Since then, working with national and multi-national organisations in diverse environments, Sigma has successfully applied and evolved its methodology, Benefit Realisation Management (BRM). Sigma is a specialist supplier of consultancy, methodology, training and software to support the application of BRM. Consultancy services include embedding our proven methodology, partnership consultancy to apply the approach to major programmes and projects, development of Benefit Realisation Plans and Business Cases, and Portfolio Management. Our methodology for realising benefits has been recommended as 'best practice' by the Home Office and has formed the foundation of the benefits part of the 2007 version of OGC's Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).

Valeocon Management Consulting

Website: www.valeocon.com

We help clients achieve measurable and sustainable business results. Our work with clients is based on our ability to listen, formulate and implement practical solutions, and build the client’s capabilities to sustain the gains. All of our consultants have hands-on implementation and management experience. As expert coaches, we help business leaders direct the power of their organization:

• To determine what business results are most meaningful, we help formulate and align business strategies - translating strategy into action
• To achieve measurable improvements, we help increase value delivered to customers and shareholders - achieving true process excellence
• To ensure sustainability, we help build the capability to manage change and continuously improve - enabling your people to realize their full potential.
• To apply innovative thinking to specific business challenges - focusing on top line growth and customer value

Mega

Website: www.mega.com

MEGA is a specialist in process excellence and enterprise architecture modeling solutions. Our unique approach combines proven methodology, modeling software and expert consulting. Our solutions have been adopted by thousands of satisfied customers worldwide to support their transformation and optimization projects. We can assist you in the following areas:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Architecture
• Business Process modelling & improvement
• Application Portfolio
• IT Planning, Program & Project Portfolio
• Information System Design
• System of Systems Architecture (SOSA)
• Application Selection (ITT)
• IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

Progress Software

Website: www.progress.com/savvion

Progress Software helps companies achieve greater operational responsiveness by using event processing to support operational decision making and maintain a high level of operational awareness. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), semantic data integration, SOA management and SOA governance. Progress understands that operational success relies on data integration software and event driven architectures. Business activity monitoring requires an infrastructure response that focuses on process improvement and promotes operational SOA within critical systems for effective operations management.

Global360

Website: www.global360.com

Global 360 helps organizations to better manage processes today and make improvements for tomorrow. Our document- and case-based process management solutions have helped more than 2,000 customers reduce paper, automate processes, and empower individuals to truly change how work gets done. Providing the industry’s first persona-based BPMS, Global 360 delivers intuitive and configurable user applications out-of-the-box that maximize productivity while reducing development time and costs. As a BPM market leader on the Microsoft platform, our products enable customers to leverage and extend their Microsoft investments in SharePoint, SQL, Visio and Office.

AOM

Website: www.activeops.com

Active Operations Management International (AOMi) creates sustainable results by enabling leaders within service organisations to better match the work with the resources of their teams – typically releasing 20% - 40% of operational capacity. With projects achieving payback in less than 6 months, the ongoing savings in operational expense enable a step change in business performance.

Practiced across multiple sectors in Europe, Australasia, Africa, India, Asia, Middle East and the Americas, the AOM method is managing over 30,000FTE and transforming the world of service operations by providing unprecedented levels of control over quality, productivity and service delivery.

In less than 16 weeks, AOMi introduces organisations to our best practice operations management method for capacity planning, operations control and performance management which reduces effort, increases results and sustains benefits from improving operations management practices.

Casewise

Website: www.casewise.com

Established in 1989, Casewise provides software and consultancy solutions for Business Process Analysis, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture and Governance, Risk & Compliance purposes to many of the world’s leading organizations.

With clients in more than 40 countries, our enterprise modeling solutions enable teams to visualize, understand, analyze, improve, audit and continually enhance complex operating processes and IT infrastructures.

With offices in London, New Jersey, Stamford, Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt – and a global network of resellers – Casewise provides the right knowledge and support to help organizations of all kinds make informed decisions and achieve success by design.