Interstage® Business Process Manager™
Interstage Business Process Manager ®™ is a full-featured Business Process Management (BPM) solution designed to help improve the productivity and profitability of businesses by maximizing the value of an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure and optimizing the utilization of its workforce. Interstage Business Process Manager is cost effective, easily installs and quickly integrates into existing environments—guaranteeing a faster path to ROI.
Full Business Process Life Cycle Control
The key phases in a business process life cycle — process modeling, automation, integration, management and optimization — have typically been manually intensive steps. Interstage Business Process Manager empowers users by automating their business processes and providing them with complete control over the entire process. life cycle.

Model— In order to streamline your business processes effectively, being able to easily outline the process steps to determine which of these need to be automated is important. Interstage Business Process Manager provides a powerful and intuitive graphical process modeling environment that lets business users drag-and-drop icons to easily design business processes.
Automate— One of the key benefits that Interstage Business Process Manager offers is the ability to automate these mapped out processes while ensuring that critical tasks that require human intervention do not fall through the cracks. By automating business processes, organizations can have their resources focus on the core competencies to achieve their corporate objectives and attain exponential business benefits.
Integrate— Interstage Business Process Manager’s modular, open, standards-based architecture allows for straightforward integration into existing environments, while guaranteeing that it will smoothly adapt to future technological developments as well.
Manage— Interstage Business Process Manager provides user-friendly views of the process status through graphical representations. The Business Activity Monitor dashboard displays real-time reports and alerts when thresholds are met based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Business users can easily define the KPIs and how to respond when thresholds are met. Powerful business process analytics and reporting capabilities lets users slice and dice business-related metrics. This allows for improved process visibility and accountability, essential for good process governance.
Optimize— Interstage Business Process Manager’s process optimization capabilities can be used to run a “what-if” analysis to understand what changes can be made to a process design to eliminate process bottlenecks in real-time, thereby maximizing resource utilization and improving process efficiency. The optimized models of business processes can then be versioned and deployed as needed.
Interstage Business Process Manager is the BPM solution of choice for a wide range of businesses striving to become more agile in challenging economic environments. The iterative approach to managing process life cycles using Interstage Business Process Manager ensures that what is modeled is implemented, managed and optimized to enable continuous improvement of business process efficiencies. Interstage Business Process Manager not only helps companies meet immediate needs, such as those dictated by compliance mandates, but it also assists with putting best practices in place for improved operational efficiencies.
Key Benefits
Automates Business Solutions
Interstage Business Process Manager not only helps companies meet immediate needs, such as those dictated by compliance mandates, but it also assists with putting best practices in place for improved operational efficiencies.
Interstage Business Process Manager automates the necessary controls and procedures to help organizations rapidly respond to and report on business changes while ensuring that they demonstrate good corporate governance.
Facilitates Process Performance Control
Interstage Business Process Manager provides audit trails and activity monitoring to ensure optimal performance of critical business processes in real-time. Notifications resulting from timers, triggers and due dates provide compliance and other business-related alerts and escalations as necessary. These enable companies to respond to customers and partners quickly and efficiently, driving greater customer loyalty and better partner relations.
Facilitates Process Logic Changes
Interstage Business Process Manager allows for quick modification of processes in response to customer requests through a browser-based, rich process modeling environment without the involvement of IT. Interstage Business Process Manager also offers pre-built functions that can be easily incorporated into a process step (e.g., steps for escalating a task, for making choices in a process, for invoking a Web service) without the business analyst ever having to write any code.
Lowers Development Costs
Interstage Business Process Manager enables the extraction of business logic into a separate process layer that is easily maintained and modified, providing unparalleled support for business process reuse. Its standards-based architecture, robust API, customizable adapters and rich connectivity layer allow for utilization of existing IT infrastructure. This translates into reduced development costs and higher ROI.
Provides Integrated User Interface
Interstage Business Process Manager’s enhanced BPM console provides users with a single, browser-based environment from where they can model and monitor processes and manage their task lists.
Key Features
Interstage Business Process Manager includes a rich and mature spectrum of functions that reduce development time, improve employee productivity and increase company profitability. It is the most open, interoperable and extensible BPM tool available on the market.
It offers:
 | Advanced business rules management |
 | Business calendar for timers |
 | Deadlines and notifications |
 | Drag-and-drop process design |
 | Forms generation and customization |
 | Java JDK 1.4.2 support |
 | Ad-hoc process modification |
 | Real-time reporting and analytics |
 | Process optimization and simulation |
 | Service agents for integration with existing systems |
 | Web services standards support |
 | Triggers |
 | Additional standards supported include BPEL |
 | WebDAV DMS, Wf-XML 2.0 |
Interstage Business Process Manager is Web-hosted and 100% browser-based. It can operate as a stand-alone application and it supports major J2EE application servers to allow for mission-critical failover requirements. In addition, Interstage Business Process Manager also includes a number of sample templates to help companies get their applications up and running as quickly as possible.