Def: BPM an umbrella term for defining, recording and improving business processes.

01- Is the definition, recording and use of business rules
02- Is a method of gathering management information
03- Is a means of auditing everything a worker does
04- Is a logical progression from automation in the production line to automation in the office
05- Includes the notion of workflow
06- Is business process re-engineering
07- Is the fine tuning of business processes
08- Is a means of allowing collaboration between workers
09- Is a means of saving money by reducing the load on workers, or even reducing the workers
10 -Gives you governance

Every company have their own business process. In the media & entertainment industry production companies, postproduction, visual effects studios and sound studios needs tools to manage critical enterprise information with a platform on top of which tools can be built so that business people can used them to manage the complete lifecycle of processes. Business processes should be defined and owned by the business, not IT or the current off shelf softwares companies.

The complexities inherent to todays business process of many companies is almost now a greater challenge than the actual work that needs to be performed by the artists. By controling their business process with a software framework, companies can focus purely on the specifications related to collaborating during the business process. This can then allow the business people to model, deploy and manage mission-critical business processes without the constant intervention of IT.

01- Informational, capturing process information for purposes of understanding
02- Sequential, changing process sequence, or enabling parallelism
03- Collaborative, allowing participants to manage sets of shared work processes
04-  Tracking, closely monitoring process status and participants
05- Integrative, consolidating and integrating sub-processes and tasks
06- Analytical, improving analysis of information and decision-making across processes
07- Geographical, coordinating processes across distances
08- Intellectual, the process of capturing and distributing intellectual assets
09- Compositional, building new processes from elementary reusable process patterns
10- Automatisation, eliminating human labor from a process