FDA turns to Appian BPM

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will employ BPM from Appian and immixGroup to streamline and manage key business and governance processes, writes Idev News.

One goal of the five-year contract aims to speed approval and certification of medical devices. The FDA's five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement with Appian and immixGroup is valued at approximately $12 million, company officials say.

The FDA is expected to use the BPM platform across all its centres to better align processes between groups and departments, and improve management of several core business processes, according to Appian officials.

Integrify, a provider of lean BPM software, has revealed the availability of Integrify for SharePoint, says PRWeb.

The integration extends the value of the industry-leading Integrify's Lean BPM Suite for users of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or 2010 (MOSS).

By making it easy to import process data from Integrify into SharePoint, or to invoke a process in Integrify from SharePoint, Integrify's Lean BPM for SharePoint continues Integrify's mission to offer the most flexible, easy-to-use, and comprehensive Lean BPM suite on the market.

Oracle, a business software and hardware systems company, has unveiled Oracle Tutor 14, an upgrade of its process documentation tool, says iStock Analyst

Oracle says its Tutor 14 helps organisations retain corporate knowledge, improve workforce effectiveness, manage change, and reduce process improvement costs through effective documentation.

It includes new content conversion capabilities aiming to help organisations customise procedures, enabling them to further reduce procedure development and business process modelling time.