BPM and workflows with SharePoint

Yes, Business Process Management is possible with SharePoint ! With the MICA tool proposed by TWO Consult, BPM functionalities are inside SharePoint, not next to it, as in the case of most other third party BPM tools.

1. Process modelling

You simply use Office (e.g. Word or Excel) to draw process maps, make diagrams and prepare analyses of activities. You fill in worksheets in which you add links to SharePoint documents and other modelling elements (actors, indicators, risks, etc.), buiding up your process model database. The database is kept up to date in SharePoint while business actors analyse and improve the process descriptions. With the MICA document management module, you maintain the versions and publish the whole set ready for all the business parties to navigate between the information elements at their disposal.

2. Creating applications which combine forms and workflows

If you also want to automate some processes by proposing business actors to use forms and documents managed by workflows, just define the content items and the related forms, draw and define the workflow components (activities, transitions, sub-flows, etc., as well as the behaviour of the fields depending on the steps of the workflow). Add the views required to access the documents. The code corresponding to the workflows, forms and list views is automatically generated, ready for SharePoint to react accordingly after activation.

Try the application and improve it on your own test environment before it is deployed as a SharePoint site on the company's intranet . That’s it ! (see more detailed information at MICA platform for SharePoint).

3. Indicators and dashboards

MICA and TWO Consult’s expertise can also help you design and maintain KPI's (Business Process Indicators) : how to extract the data from the SharePoint workflows you prepared with MICA or from the company data bases, how to maintain that in WSS / SharePoint Foundation and/or use the Business Intelligence features of MOSS to prepare and post the indicators to the relevant people.

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