- Increased efficiencyby automating manual and
repetitive tasks
- Process complianceby reducing errors, missed
steps and wrong decision
- Competitive advantageby implementing processes
that will bring your company to the next level
Workflow and Business Process
Business processes should not be manual; they should not take hours of yours or your people’s precious time. Paper documents and forms awaiting approval should not clutter your working space. Processes should not take days when they can be completed in hours.
We can give you an optimized, automated and completely tractable business processes implementation with the license-free version of SharePoint Services.
Below are some of the benefits of having your business processes automated:
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Type
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Description
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Increase efficiency
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By automating repetitive tasks, the time of your employees is saved for more
important tasks.
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Eliminating errors
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Every human activity can be automated in order to reduce likelihood for an error.
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Reducing delays
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By immediately notifying participants of their tasks, you ensure that the process
is completed as quickly as possible.
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Easily spot problems
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You can see immediately if any task is not completed on time or why a process has
been delayed.
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Having Control
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You can control and change the flow of the process if necessary.
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Get real-time process operations reports
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Having always a current up-to date view how a specific process is operating and
perform a corrective action if necessary.
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Optimize process
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By analyzing all of the completed processes,
you can find inefficiencies and correct them.
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Integrate systems
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Business processes can integrate data between applications, and removing the need
of operators to type the data.
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Here are some of the business processes that you can implement in your organization:
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Type
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Description
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Human
Resource Processes
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The Recruitment process
Employee
hiring and Interview Process, Employee “On-Boarding” process, and the Employee
Leave processes
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The Performance Review
and Benefits management
Managing
performance evaluation forms
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Vacation process, request
for leaves and Corporate Calendar
Manage the
requests for vacations, sick leaves, and track total numbers of days in
vacation. Manage the working time, people shifts and substitution
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Employee Training
Processes and Competency Management
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Finance
Department Processes
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Budgeting
Plan and
approve budgets for various expenses.
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Purchase Requests
Management
Manage the
approval at low level for every purchase request in the organization
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Procurement
Manage the
complex purchasing decisions. Collecting offers, tenders and bid management.
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Expense Reports
processing
Manage the
expense reports for the employees
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Document
Approval and Compliance Processes
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ISO certification
Manage documents and forms approvals and revisions.
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Document Approval
Processes
Automation of various approval scenarios, tracking, and instant notifications.
Eliminate completely paper-based approval
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Customer
Relationship Management processes
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Presales process
Tracking leads and manage the investments in the presales. Promote opportunities
and initiate the sales process.
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Sales process
Manage opportunities, orders and the invoicing, shipping
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Marketing Process
Manage the marketing campaigns
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Service and Call Center
Processes
Managing calls, knowledge bases, etc
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Type
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Description
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IT Department
& Support Processes
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Service Desk Processes
Cases, routing to appropriate technicians, tracking case status and progress,
resolution notification, etc. Publish to self-service customer portals.
Tracking issues, cases and trouble tickets from initiation to the resolution.
Assign priority to each issue and automatically send it to the appropriate
Helpdesk team, e.g. Desktop team, Network team or Telecom team. Receive daily,
weekly and monthly reports on key support metrics to monitor and improve your
customer service. Escalation based
on priority & category.
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Change and Configuration
Management
The Change approval process via Change requests. Maintain always up-to-date
configuration. Ensure that each
change is documented, tested, and approved before executed
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Asset management
Manage all corporate IT assets in terms of acquired and used software and
hardware from accusation to disposition
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Release management
Manage and control the release cycles and execution of every configuration
change – installation of new software, hardware upgrades.
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Administration Processes
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Travel booking
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Event organizing
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Office supplies
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Project
Management and Solution Delivery Processes
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Project management
processes (see Project Server)
Manage project and resources through the project schedule, keep track of project
cost and budget
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Bug tracking and Issue
Management processes
Tracking bugs and issues from opening until closing
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The task management
processes
Assign task to various people and manage the task progress over time
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The requirements
gathering process
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Incident and Problem
Management
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This is an extract of the specific activities required in implementation of
workflow and business process automation solutions. Abilitics can perform some
or all of them in order to meet your business requirements.
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Phase
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Description
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Installation
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Install and
Configure SharePoint Services / SharePoint Server / Forms Server for
business process automation.
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Process
Definition
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Define and document the business processes.
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Requirements definition
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Define
functional and non-functional requirements, reporting requirements.
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Development Forms
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Implement forms with InfoPath, Forms Services
and Excel Services.
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Development Workflows
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Implement
business processes with SharePoint designer and/or Visual Studio.
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Implement monitoring
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Implement
monitoring and Key performance indicators with SQL Server Analysis Services.
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Develop reports
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Implement
various reports around the business process with SQL Server Reporting
Services.
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Custom
Development
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Develop any
additional custom components / web parts in order to meet your requirements.
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Integration
with line of business systems
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Integrate the
business process with ERPs, CRMs, Billing, by using Business Data Catalog
or BizTalk.
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