Green Hat and 1st Thought to Offer New Product

Green Hat in conjunction with 1^st Thought, a UK based firm, is offering a new automation product that is a testing platform for SOA and BPM. According to the news article found in Integration Developer News, the two companies are making it available only for TIBCO’s iProcess. Peter Cole, Green Hat President and CTO, made this statement regarding this product launch:

“Some of the world’s largest organizations are using BPM in conjunction with SOA to deliver maximum business value. Until recently, automation of BPM testing has always been a stumbling block,”

Nigel Winship, CEO of 1^st Thought, also had this to say:

“The ability that GH Tester now provides to drive the testing of a process end to end is genuinely ground breaking and we believe affords huge scope to drive down delivery costs for BPM projects.”

Value Innovation meets BPM

Value innovation is important to recognize in any company. Value innovation happens when you recognize your current business processes and improve them. In this article at BPM Enterprise, they show this via McDonald’s recent business emphasis in coffee. They saw that by improving what they had, they could become a real competitor with Starbucks, and have after improving the value of their own product.

It’s important to recognize what can be improved in your current business processes. Processes that can be changed are business rules engines, workflow solutions, online credit reports, and online databases that can allow for value innovations to be added to the business processes. The business world is constantly changing and evolving, and it’s important that business recognize this. What processes in your company can be innovated to better suit your needs?