The cloud alone won't fix it!

Cloud growth is also being driven by digitization, which is causing the speed of change and complexity to grow by leaps and bounds. Companies no longer need to maintain expensive, proprietary IT systems and software systems that are becoming obsolete ever faster.

Events and changes that a company must keep an eye on are constantly increasing. Parallel to this increasing rate of change, the time to act continues to decrease. That's where the flexibility of the cloud is an advantage.

The focus here is on two questions. First, how can we integrate standard processes in our business to create the right combination of control and flexibility?

Secondly, what approaches are available today to increase agility in business and thus also in the software required for this purpose?

Subject orientation is an approach that has proven itself in an environment with increasing speed of change and growing complexity. Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) is based on separating different modes of action in business processes (subjects = actors) from each other in modeling/programming.

These become easier to understand, manageable, and quicker to describe and change. The coordination of the individual courses of action then takes place via structured communication.

The result is a process-oriented, agile collaboration of the participants that lives from change. For the first time, S-BPM takes into account that process participants communicate with each other in order to structure process results.

This addresses a very important aspect of organizational culture, the processes of a company. The key to competitiveness and agility is speed.

S-BPM provides the best prerequisites for this. With just 5 icons, every business user can create, execute and change processes and applications quickly, efficiently, cost-effectively and in compliance.

The focus is on structured communication between all participants. A single central control flow is no longer required. This leads to the first of the above questions: How can standardization and integration on the one hand and individualization and agility on the other be successfully mastered at the same time?

On the one hand, the use of standard processes makes sense, but on the other hand, this denies business departments individual support for their agile business.

The solution is the combination of integration of cloud ERP solutions (use of standard) with subject-oriented business process management (highest agility).

The advantages of such a combination are obvious: Cloud systems do not have to map individual requirements. These can be implemented cost-effectively with S-BPM. Cloud systems remain in the standard configuration as far as possible and updates and release changes are much easier and cheaper.

Cloud systems can be integrated with S-BPM processes via the internal message bus. This creates controllable gateways for accesses to the cloud system.

S-BPM is so easy to use that applications can be created and maintained almost entirely by the business. This means that highly individual requirements can be implemented quickly and efficiently.

S-BPM applications are so maintenance-friendly, agile and flexible that they allow a try-and-error approach. Requirements in still unclear domains (innovation) can be developed step by step.

Applications built on the S-BPM methodology, especially for front-end processes, can be created and maintained with a fraction of the time and cost.

The solution for a future-proof cloud landscape: The cloud provides standards on the back end and is integrated with an agile BPM method on the front end.

The combined approach brings together the advantages of two opposites and fully covers the requirements of the respective areas.