Process Modeling &

Workflow Management Newsletter

FTS selects the Baan DEM compliant EZ-Workflow to automate their global operations

• Compliancy to Baan DEM (Dynamic Enterprise Modeling) with flexibility to define hybrid Workflow routes within & beyond the Baan operations
• Integration capabilities to Baan (all versions) enabling Baan Purchase Requisitions to be dynamically transferred to the Workflow engine and triggering the approval process without human intervention
• Ability to handle transactions of various formats, such as html (entered using web-forms), Excel, Word, pdf, etc.
• Web-based user Worklist enabling tasks notifications & execution on any PC without installation, without limitation on the number of employees collaborating in the automated flow (i.e. unlimited users)
• Integration with extended BPM capabilities, including process modeling, web-publishing, process quantitative analysis and optimization, process certification, etc.
• Ability to be implemented in less than 6 weeks, with limited involvement of FTS staff

DynaFlow delivers EZ-Compliance to the market, to integrate SOX and Process Management

DynaFlow today announced to have successfully delivered EZ-Compliance to the market. EZ-Compliance integrates Dynamic SOX Compliancy Management within its EZ-Process suite, a certified Enterprise-wide Business Process Management (BPM) solution.

Analyst firms like Gartner and AMR Research consistently emphasize the importance of integrating compliancy measures within organizations' processes. Mr. Beaulieu, President of DynaFlow: "We are strong believers that SOX compliancy cannot be achieved by only filling out questionnaires with lists of internal controls by department. It is by the linking of the controls to their corresponding work context that we are able to enhance the understanding of these by employee, and therefore insure a greater accuracy, completeness and validity of all operations".

Don Morren, DEM/BPM Manager for Herman Miller adds: "This new module's ability to not only define and monitor internal Business Controls, and link them to the related Business Processes, is an attracting feature that would be supportive to companies going through the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) initiatives, as we are."

Comcast Cable automates complex approval process by implementing EZ-Workflow

In its ongoing goal of customer service and internal operations improvement, it became clear that the manually operated purchase approval process in the Atlantic Division of Comcast Cable Communications was no longer providing the speed, flexibility and real-time tracking required to run the business efficiently. So concluded this division of 8000 employees, member of Comcast Cable, the largest US broadband cable provider. The objective then become to implement EZ-Workflow to eliminate the significant inter-office courier costs created by the manual routing and reduce the current approval cycle times that often took several weeks.

The Purchasing Director adds: "Our initial estimates show that our traditional approval cycle time of 2-3 weeks can be significantly scaled down to a few days, and urgent approvals can be processed within a day. Not only has the removal of our paper-driven approval process achieved this key business objective, but the electronic approval made possible by EZ-Workflow will also translate to important savings by eliminating daily inter-office couriers. Finally, capital expenditure initiators, buyers and management are able to track on a real-time basis the status and evolution of the approval process".

Welcome to EZ-Process seminars

Special limited invitation to a series of seminars that will expose how Baan users such as FTS, Herman Miller, MD Robotics and Solar Turbines have addressed successfully the following corporate initiatives:

> April 21st, 2004: Web-based Seminar
North America (11.00AM ET) & Europe (5.00PM CET, Amsterdam).

> May 11th, 2004: North American Seminar
Hosted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

> June 8th, 2004: Web-based Seminar
Asia (4.30PM Singapore) & Europe (9.30AM CET, Amsterdam).

These EZ-Seminars will focus on the practical application of Knowledge and Workflow Management, by presenting practical examples of a selection of our customers. With key objective to provide clear pictures of what benefits you can expect from Knowledge and Workflow Solutions, as well as a step-by-step plan to get there, these seminars include the following case studies:

• Corporate-wide Process Management to bridge Baan users to the rest of the company
• BPM to facilitate Sarbanes-Oxley compliance & certification
• Knowledge retention & deployment, applicable for Product & Process know-how
• Workflow Automation of Baan & non-Baan processes

Mark your Agenda

• DynaFlow Presents for Special Interest Group of Baan Users (UK & Ireland) at June 29th 2004. Location: Hadley Industries, Smethwick, UK. For more information, visit the Baanusers.co.uk Website.
• Baan World Users Fall Workshop, October 19-22 in Montreal, Quebec. Mark your calender! For more information, visit www.bwu.org.

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