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•Guest Column: BPM Success: Integration Is The Key

Communication is everything. The moment we're born, the labyrinth of neurons in our brain starts processing and distributing information. Strong neural connections help our brains to expand their function so we can make smart decisions and reach our potential. Our well-being relies on quick, efficient messaging. If the right connections aren't made early on, our brains will miss vital input that would otherwise instruct or protect us.

Business software integrations are similar, except a well-conceived integration delivers information with efficiency and consistency that vastly exceeds human potential. Integration makes it possible to tap into the tangle of business processes to get information wherever it resides and make it useful wherever it's needed. If the diverse software applications you use don't connect at logical points, you miss opportunities for efficiency that ECM (enterprise content management) and BPM (business process management) software allow.

If you've read the first article in this series, you know that data is the basis of any ECM implementation, helping to drive work and decision-making efficiently across your organization. The number of integration points and their thoroughness determine how easily and effectively your information can be pushed and pulled enterprise-wide. Thorough integration assures that data is available wherever and whenever it's needed. It helps to drive processes forward based on real-time information, dramatically increasing accurate messaging and efficiency.

If you're not connecting your business systems, you're not engaging in effective ECM or BPM. Simply said, without thorough integration, you've missed the point.

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•Guest Column: BPM Success: Integration Is The Key