Business Process Management
Business Process Management, a set of activities, is essential for a new or existing business in a way that it helps an organization to optimize current business processes and future organizational and operational changes.

Business process management is done with the help of different tools that help in capturing, modeling, designing, integrating, deploying, testing, measuring and maintaining several business activities. The success or failure of each company depends on how good or bad it is able to manage the entire life cycle of its processes.

Need for Business Process Management:

To plan for a new business or for a new change in the business.

To avoid the common mistakes that happens in a project.

To document business processes in a common language to help IT and non-IT team members.

To draw business modeling and data modeling diagrams and to capture business rules in a way we want them.

To implement enterprise architecture or enterprise integration architecture (EAI) or ETL architecture.

To measure data by using business intelligence tools.

To enhance business to business transactions.

See Figure 2.1 below for Business Process Life Cycle Management Diagram.