Business Process Management (BPM) is an emerging field of knowledge and research at the intersection between management and information technology, encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact, control,and analyze businesses involving people, organisations, applications, documents and other sources of information.

BPM differs from business process reengineering, a management approach popular in the 1990s, in that it does not aim to create one-off revolutionary changes to business processes. It strives to set off continuous evolution of the process. In this effort, BPM usually combines management methods with information technology to achieve the best results

Business Process Management is a management model that allows the organisations to manage their processes as with their other assets and constantly improve and better them over an extensive period of time. In the case of a large organisation, a good business process management system enables the business to adapt to day to day changes in business processes caused by competitive, regulatory or market challenges without overly relying on its IT departments.

Business Process Management Life-cycle

The activities which constitute business process management can be grouped into five categories: Design, Modeling, Execution, Monitoring, Optimization.

BPM, BPR and ECM

BPM is also related to Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). ECM involves managing the capture, storage, use, security, control, retrieval, and distribution of information and documents within an organisation.