Overview: The EPC Advantage

The EPC allows you to manage the entire process lifecycle. You design and build your processes in the Modeler, publish to the dynamic, user-specific Web Portal, and manage and improve them with the EPC’s business intelligence and performance tracking capabilities. Via the collaborative Web Portal, users can post feedback and change requests in web-based discussion forums that promote ongoing process lifecycle management. Reviewers and process owners are notified of change requests automatically via e-mail, and, when improvements are approved, subscribed employees receive automatic e-mail notifications, as well. As such, the EPC promotes a culture of continuous process improvement across the organization.

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The EPC is a comprehensive solution that meets the full spectrum of BPM requirements, from process lifecycle management (PLM) and business architecture (BA) to process automation with EPC Workflow. The EPC’s fully-integrated Workflow engine goes beyond basic lifecycle management, allowing you to reduce manual effort by automating human-centric processes, and mechanizing the end-to-end execution of system or integration-centric ones. Process automation dramatically reduces the risk of human error, saves time, and increases productivity. Unlike pure-play workflow tools, EPC’s core BA capabilities allow for an organizational blueprint that facilitates automation, and its PLM facilitates the ongoing updating and management of running workflows. The Workflow engine can be added as your project becomes more sophisticated, or at the outset as part of a comprehensive BPM initiative.

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Business architecture involves more than just the structure of business processes. It also entails the organization of departments, roles, documents, assets, and all other process-related information. The EPC’s object-oriented repository facilitates the management of your company’s business architecture. In the EPC, processes and all related information (such as organizational units, roles, resources, assets, documents, risks, and controls) are stored in separate libraries as “objects.” Because our centralized repository is “object-oriented,” processes and objects are managed independently of each other and have their own lifecycles. Your organization is constantly evolving; the object-oriented repository allows you to easily maintain a flexible organizational model.

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The EPC bridges the gap between business operations and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) management to create a sustainable process improvement and governance culture across the organization. Its process-centric approach to enterprise management aligns process improvement and GRC initiatives as ongoing programs rather than as one-time projects, integrating governance, risk, and compliance activities with day-to-day operations. With specific modules dedicated to rules, risks, controls, and audit management that integrate with all aspects of the process lifecycle, the EPC allows organizations to improve operational performance while ensuring compliance with corporate governance policies and external regulatory requirements.

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The EPC is designed for the business user. Non-technical process modelers and end-users can easily and intuitively interact with both its Modeler and the Web Portal. It requires very little end-user product training and is easily accepted by employees at all organizational levels, thereby reducing implementation costs.


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With the EPC, standardized, accurate, and up-to-date SOPs are just a few clicks away. You can automatically generate EPC Process Books to output EPC content into convenient, printable process documentation. You can predefine different company templates for different purposes; Process Books are ideal for detailed SOPs, training manuals, user guides, audit reports, and strategy meetings. While all information contained in the EPC is easily accessible via the user-specific, dynamic Web Portal, you can continue creating your existing process documentation, but without the manual effort. With the EPC, all information changes are controlled and versioned so that you can ensure that employees are using the latest policies, processes, and procedures.

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A comprehensive BPM program doesn’t have to break your budget. The EPC is one-third of the cost of comparable BPM products on the market, and is fully customizable to meet any organization’s unique needs. The EPC is modular, and advanced modules can be selected à la carte; you don’t pay for a lot of features you won’t use. You can start small and add modules as your organization and BPM initiative grow. Additionally, the EPC comes pre-loaded with process libraries and frameworks that accelerate program rollout by reducing the time required to model company processes. The EPC will also reduce Workflow implementation costs by allowing your company to deploy automated processes with minimal development and configuration.

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