{"id":138,"date":"2015-07-30T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=138"},"modified":"2015-07-30T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:48:17","slug":"the-software-and-acronym-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"The software and acronym jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the software landscape is an enormous challenge &#8211; there is a lot of terminology, some of it overlaps, and some has more specific definitions than others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Business Process Management&#8221; can mean literally managing business processes &#8211; or software to help manage business processes. (You get the impression that some people don&#8217;t think there is much difference between these two).<\/p>\n<p>There is a whole range of &#8216;business process management&#8217; software tools, to help make it easier to make a system to manage your business process.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wikipedia page on &#8216;Business Process Management&#8217;, a typical BPM suite might include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Process engine \u2014 a robust platform for modeling and executing process-based applications, including business rules<\/li>\n<li>Business analytics \u2014 enable managers to identify business issues, trends, and opportunities with reports and dashboards and react accordingly<\/li>\n<li>Content management \u2014 provides a system for storing and securing electronic documents, images, and other files<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration tools \u2014 remove intra- and interdepartmental communication barriers through discussion forums, dynamic workspaces, and message boards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is close to what we are interested in with &#8216;Software for Domain Experts&#8217; although it also perhaps\u00a0a bit more sophisticated than most expert users need.<\/p>\n<p>There is also &#8216;Professional Services Automation&#8217; &#8211; defined on Wikipedia as &#8220;software designed to assist professionals, such as lawyers, auditors, IT consultants, and other professionals, with project management and resource management for client projects&#8221;.\u00a0So that&#8217;s project management software.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of &#8216;Software for Domain Experts&#8217; we are interested in here is more about simply gathering together information people need and presenting it in the right way.<\/p>\n<p>We believe many expert users are satisfied enough with their corporate file storage systems (for content management) and satisfied with e-mail systems for collaboration (or if not, there are plenty of specialist tools available which will do more)<\/p>\n<p>But what they don&#8217;t have is their data in exactly the way they want it &#8211; and of course their requirements are always changing.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why we are maybe looking for a more &#8216;low code&#8217; version of &#8216;Business Process Management&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the software landscape is an enormous challenge &#8211; there is a lot of terminology, some of it overlaps, and some has more specific definitions than others. &#8220;Business Process Management&#8221; can mean literally managing business processes &#8211; or software to help manage business processes. 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