Based in Adelaide, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) is the principal government agency in South Australia, a state with about 1.5 million people. Cabinet Office, a division of DPC, supports the implementation of South Australia’s Strategic Plan, coordinates and advises on policy development, and has overarching responsibility for federal-state relations. In preparing Cabinet Submissions and Notes and the associated policy briefings for the Premier and Ministers, Cabinet Office handled a massive amount of paper. For example, thirty (30) copies of a normal Cabinet Submission were required, together with the original, in a Cabinet Submission file cover. Twenty-three (23) copies in the case of a Cabinet Note. This paper circulation caused missed deadlines and security breaches. DPC issued a tender for a “Electronic Cabinet Online (ECO) Project” to develop a system creating a paperless environment for Cabinet proceedings. DCP selected BizFlow® BPM and OfficeEngine™ from HandySoft as the foundation for the ECO Project. Now all policy development and case management for 40,000 government employees runs through BizFlow.

As part of its Workforce Restructuring Plan in 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created the Enterprise Workflow Information Tracking System (EWITS). The BizFlow®-based EWITS application will be used for all HR recruiting activities. EWITS integrates BizFlow with PeopleSoft HRMS, Monster Government Solutions' QuickHire, and other applications to create a seamless recruiting process infrastructure. Applying BizFlow was estimated to be 47% less costly than modifying the legacy HR management systems and could be implemented a year sooner. Additional reasons to go with BizFlow versus upgrading the legacy system include easier customization and transportability to other HR management systems. One result of the effort was OMB's decision to name HHS as one of five Federal Government LOB Shared Service Centers for Human Resources.

Landesbank Berlin AG (LBB AG) has its roots in Berliner Sparkasse, which dates back to 1818, and is still an important part of the bank. LBB AG is the universal bank with more than 6,700 employees headquartered in the German capital. In 2006, LBB reported earnings after taxes of EUR 685 million. LBB will use BizFlow® to create a process-driven organization and to streamline trade floor operations. They followed a Six Sigma approach while plugging BizFlow® into a Service Oriented Architecture. Andre Helbig, BPM project manager, explains, “We chose BizFlow® for many reasons. One strength of the tool is that all the BPM components - forms designer, process modeler, business rules engine, activity monitoring - are integrated in one tool. As a result, we don’t have to deal with several different applications. We get one tool to learn, use and maintain. In addition, BizFlow® delivers documentation in both German and English, important for a German bank with global operations.”

As the "HMO that goes to war," The United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) employs more than 40,000 full-time officers, civilians, and enlisted personnel plus an additional 20,000 members of the Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard. AFMS has a budget of $6.9 billion and runs 75 hospitals and clinics providing care to more than 2.6 million beneficiaries during both peacetime and wartime. AFMS selected BizFlow to create an "Correspondence and Tracking" application known as SG/TASK. Says Lt. Colonel Whitlock, "we use SG/TASK to track all sorts of questions, issues, and tasks, but perhaps the best example is the coordination of policies and procedures. Consider our Aeromedical Evacuation mission. The US military operates in very remote locations. When an airman or soldier is critically injured overseas, an incredibly complex process is required to treat and evacuate them back to definitive care in the United States. Patients literally have their own personal Intensive Care Unit strapped to their stretcher. Just imagine who is involved - medical and surgical services, logistics, training, legal, finance, etc. SG/TASK was created so that personnel across the Air Force Surgeon General’s staff could quickly coordinate policies while never losing visibility into the task at hand."

With more than one million clients, 1250 employees, and $3 billion under management, SSQ Financial is one of Canada's largest financial institutions. SSQ uses BizFlow® for 10 business processes including policy change requests, correspondence tracking, and medical underwriting. Key benefits include increased productivity, improved management visibility, and accountability enforcement. The case study also shares lessons learned.

WARIA and WfMC awarded its 2005 Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow Gold Award for the Pacific Rim to Samsung Heavy Industries. SHI utilizes BizFlow to optimize their fabrication management process, enabling employees to manage and monitor the priority and status of various business processes in real-time. Read this case study to learn how Samsung Heavy Industries realized an annual cost savings of $4.4 million with their BPM initiatives.

More than 500 Project Managers, Planners, and Engineers use BizFlow on a daily basis to create and manage procurement orders, engineering test orders, R&D processes, and vacation requests.

Jim Court, VP & CIO, says, "The unique functionality HandySoft offered in BizFlow was process-centric automation. Unlike document management oriented solutions, BizFlow drives human-to-human activities such as data analysis, data validation, approval routing, job monitoring, and worker productivity analysis - all essential in agent and customer facing activities - BizFlow has been cost effective and very easy to understand and implement. And HandySoft has been a good company to work with - fair and customer oriented. Ultimately, our objective was to start simple, then scale out process complexity to end users. With HandySoft as our partner we could do just that."

WfMC, Giga Information Group, and WARIA awarded BizFlow its Gold Award for Excellence in Workflow in recognition of BizFlow's performance for Nong Shim, a Korean food company that used BizFlow to integrate their workflow solution, infrastructure system, and Web-enabled technologies.

Healthcare providers are looking to drive down costs, improve patient care, and achieve
steady returns on existing investments. HandySoft’s BPM solution, BizFlow is designed to
achieve exactly these things while providing greater visibility into processes, optimization
of workflow, and proof of regulatory compliance.

BizFlow enables healthcare providers to model their processes in a zero-coding environment.
Without the hassle of coding, these healthcare professionals can leverage their professional
knowledge of their workflows to model their processes. Additionally, they can benefit from
BizFlow’s capability for continual process optimization in these processes.

Unique to HandySoft among BPM providers, BizFlow allows users to collaborate on processes and
tasks through OfficeEngine. This dynamic BPM tool empowers users with greater collaboration
with all the benefits of a BPM solution (deadlines, alerts, and visibility) with the agility
of email.

Most hospitals manage their physician order referrals through fax, emails, and paper. The information contained in these often is manually keyed into disparate systems without any visibility into status or location of the order. HandySoft has developed a solution to enable hospitals and physicians to manage the process in less time, greater accuracy, and improved patient care. Register below to view the Order Referral Management Demo.

Pipeline inspection companies monitor thousands of job requests stemming from corroding, broken, and clogged pipelines. With energy companies focused on safety, the environment, and avoiding large lawsuits, pipeline inspection companies are growing quickly and need to streamline operations and greatly improve productivity.

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Government agencies use BizFlow to re-engineer and transform antiquated, paper-based workflows into completely transparent, automated processes. Solution overviews illustrate use and ROI at HHS, DOL, Marines, Air Force, VA, and California.

Enterprise Business Process Management Solutions

One of BizFlow’s unique capabilities for OfficeEngine, is its integration with Microsoft Office and SharePoint. It’s ready to use “out-of-the-box” dynamic tasking capabilities, facilitates social and collaborative interactions across the enterprise to get work done!

BizFlow® is the first Business Process Management (BPM) solution to seamlessly automate and integrate ad-hoc tasks with structured processes to drive visibility, control and productivity across all work that happens within an organization. BizFlow® is a comprehensive, fully-configurable solution that includes BizFlow® BPM, BizFlow® OfficeEngine™ and BizFlow® BAM.

Learn how BizFlow can help remove barriers to Six Sigma success by automating work, enforcing best practices, getting real-time data, and reducing learning curves. Get the results and ROI you expect from your Six Sigma initiatives by rolling out improved processes faster and more effectively.

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With HandySoft's BizFlow Compliance Solution, companies can establish a sustainable compliance process, reducing time and costs associated with compliance efforts while minimizing the cost of audits.

Both process and discreet manufacturers are using BizFlow to automate processes such as engineering change requests, quality assurance, premium freight handling, manufacturing and assembly deviations, procurement, contract and production outsourcing, and capital budgeting.

This article, written by HandySoft's Scott Byrnes, argues that BPM solutions need to adapt to today's dynamic business environment. Byrnes says that the next generation of BPM suites must give managers more visibility and control into processes while proactively providing workers with the knowledge they need to complete their tasks.

According to a new study published by HandySoft, almost two thirds (60%) of European financial institutions are not expected to meet the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) by the deadline of November 2007. Study participants included 100 European financial institutions and a further sample of specialist corporate lawyers.

With the release of Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), many organizations have asked HandySoft about the difference between this new Microsoft product and a Business Process Management (BPM) product such as BizFlow®. This whitepaper compares and contrasts Microsoft WWF with BizFlow® BPM. In it we shall illustrate that SharePoint Workflow Designer and BizFlow-based BPM solutions are markedly different as well as complementary. Rather than comparing the two, organizations should consider how WWF in conjunction with BizFlow® can be used to make more powerful workflow and process-driven solutions.