BPM Software: Flowcentric from Professional Advantage

I attended a breakfast seminar the other week to have a look at Flowcentric, a BPM software product by Professional Advantage. Obviously at these kind of seminars, everything looks good and the response to every question is a "yes", so it did look like a good product that is being used across a wide range of industries - that suggests a certain degree of flexibility, which is obviously a big plus point. It also integrates with Outlook and Sharepoint. You can even upload your Visio maps to it. Good if you use Microsoft products, of course, but if you don't?

I had a good chat to Johnathan Marcer from Professional Advantage. I explained to him the connundrum that I always face with companies - how do you get them to understand the value of process and the benefits that controlling process will bring? His suggestion was simple, but good: start small. Start with a process that can bring immediate value to the organisation - effectively a proof of concept. Don't choose to attack the biggest, hairiest beast in the organisation.

Pick a process, prove that it works and you have a compelling argument for more.

Rock on!

 - TPN