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Procession Delivers to the CFO the concept "IT does not matter"

At the World Trade Group CFO Summit at Chelsea Village London, Procession has been revealing to the CFOs of a broad cross section of global companies just how the "IT does not matter " concept becomes effective.

In May 2003 Nicholas Carr published an article in the Harvard Business Review that caused a furore in the industry saying "IT Does not matter". In addition, BPM evangelists Howard Smith and Peter Fingar have published a book "IT does not matter, Business Processes Do". David Chassels, CEO of UK based software company Procession states that "these views are absolutely right and that customers should be concerned by comments from leaders of some of the worlds IT suppliers, such as Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, who declared such views as "hogwash" - this proves that they simply do not understand".

Any solution must ideally and logically start with what people and/or "machines" have to do to achieve an output on an individual basis to contribute to the totality of a successful business. Any technology that starts here is therefore addressing "process" and of course should also naturally incorporate the rules, statutory or just "best practice", under which they must work. This by definition needs to be an application, which has to be capable of rapid and intuitive creation that reflects simply how people and businesses work.

Chassels, a Scottish CA , has been taking fellow accountants through the concept showing them that the only way such issues can be addressed is by seamlessly creating the process application by defining the processes undertaken by people and their rules in the now familiar graphical designer. Delivery of this heralds the arrival of a new technology platform - a Process Application Platform.

Chassels goes on to say "that even the mighty Oracle recognised our achievements when Tim Payne, Senior Director Technology Marketing at Oracle said Procession has re-written the rule book for application building. The Procession Process Engine, powered by Oracle, offers the potential to dramatically reduce application build time and deliver cost savings."

 

Notes for Editors:

About Procession
Procession develops original software and markets solutions for the emerging Business Process Management (BPM) marketplace.
Procession enables organisations to implement, control, monitor and improve their processes - leading to a continual improvement in customer focused quality and falling operational costs by allowing managers to take control of their key business processes. The architecture uses an RDBMS (Oracle), along with Java and J2EE application servers and maintains a runtime repository of process data, process state and reference data.
The Procession Process Engine uses declarative process definitions: there is no code generation and no custom coding.
This unique feature means that business analysts and operational managers who understand the vital operational processes can implement and modify those processes. The risk of translation issues between the business operation and the IT support operation is minimised, freeing the IT support operation to deliver on objectives. This results in processes that are instantly deployable to the running environment.
Procession's products are task-driven, which is how people - and machines - work, unlike applications such as CRM and ERP, which are data and transactional based.

Further information from:
David Chassels, Chief Executive Officer, 01494 781444; (mobile) 07774 681773
Roland Trott, Marketing Director, 01494 781400; (mobile) 07763 142606

 

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