Workflow and BPM often get lumped together but it is important to understand the difference between them if you are to pick the right tool for your enterprise.

As you can see, the growth of SharePoint related jobs in the past 5 years has skyrocketed.

looking for ways to improve performance, leveraging technology like business process management (BPM) and SharePoint, to outperform their competition.

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I’ve been sharing examples in this series about the possibilities of process-enabling SharePoint to drive business improvement in different vertical industries.

I’m going to talk about collaboration, which is a long time sweet spot for SharePoint.

As organizations deploy business-critical applications onto SharePoint, a natural benefit is to use the collaborative and task management capabilities within SharePoint.

Instead, you can automate and streamline key processes like dispute resolution using business process management (BPM) and SharePoint.

SharePoint also provides some very sophisticated capabilities for dashboarding, reporting and analysis via Excel Services and PerformancePoint.

As a Methodology Administrator and Business Analyst working for a large company, it was evident that every programmer or manager felt it was not necessary to produce any kind of a real formal evaluation. They were all looking at issues as “just another little project” to make changes for their issues.