bpm, saas or custom development – making the right choice

BPM, SaaS, or Custom Development – Making the Right Choice

Reint Jan Holterman

Founder & Publisher, BPM Leader

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Agenda

• About Bonitasoft• Introducing Saas, BPM and Custom

Development– Custom Development Characteristics– BPM Characteristics– SaaS Characteristics

• Selection Criteria• Q&A

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Bonita BPM Subscriptions

Team collaboration• Shared repository

• Productivity features

End-User Centric• Advanced portal

• Mobile

• Process templates

Mission-critical• Clustering

• Error management

• Live reconfiguration

Subscriptions• Commercial license• Professional support• Software upgrades

Bonita BPM is…

…a powerful BPM Suite• Fully functioned for all budgets and projects of any size• Open Source: flexible, transparent, affordable

…for technical projects• Modular architecture• Embeddable workflow engine

…for business solutions• Applications generated directly from the process model• Tailor to your specific requirements for HR, Finance, etc.

BPM, SaaS or Custom Development: Making the Right Choice

Reint Jan HoltermanPublisher at BPMLeader.com

Introducing BPM Leader

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Introducing myself

• Independent Marketing & Business

Consultant

• 17 years in the Software Industry

• Founder and Publisher at BPM Leader


Perspective on software development


Striving

for

simplification



IDE

or

workbench



Composing

code



Services

Custom Development

the process of creating software

for some specific organization

or other user


Source: Wikipedia

Characteristics of Custom Development

• Flexible• Skills are widely available• Full IP ownership• Poor time-to-market• Costly• Poor predictability (both time and costs)• Maintenance efforts are high


BPM


a set of techniques for the continuous,

iterative improvement of all processes

involved in running a business

Source: OMG

Characteristics of BPM

• High business agility• More control to business analyst• Provides transparency• Can be delivered relatively fast• Moderate maintenance costs• Full IP ownership


SaaS


a development approach where specific

remote services are combined and

invoked via the Web in order to create

a new application

Characteristics of SaaS

• Focus on core strengths• Best-of-breed approach• Predictable costs• Highly scalable• Brittle solution• Low maintenance costs• Poor IP ownership


Selecting the Right Approach


Project

Requirements

Software Quali

ty

Project Triangle


Software Quality Model

F unctionality

U sability

R eliability

P erformance

S upportability


Combining Methods


Software Development Approach Triangle


7 Key Criteria


Time

Scope

Usability

Supportability

Performance

Reliability

Costs

Run the Numbers


http://www.bonitasoft.com/run-the-numbers

Q & A

• Download whitepaper

• Visit Bonitasoft.com

• Videos, whitepapers

• Visit BPM leader

• Mail [email protected]


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BPM, SaaS or Custom Development: Making the Right Choice

Reint Jan HoltermanPublisher at BPMLeader.com

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