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Corporate information systems must be continuously enhanced and adapted to ever changing business needs and priorities. At the same time, IT and Operations costs come under increasing pressure, so improved services must be delivered with increasing efficiency. In this paper we consider how such challenges can be met in the context of the financial services industry, and from the viewpoint of IT. We present our experience of utilising webMethods, a commercial BPM suite from Software AG, in successfully modernising the business system infrastructure at Barings, a global asset management firm, over a 3-year period. Our pragmatic approach is for IT developers to create and maintain executable processes in collaboration with business experts. We discuss the approach, resources, completed projects, difficulties encountered, future plans; and suggest techniques for building flexible and adaptable enterprise information systems.
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Mintchev, S. (2011). Open IT for Business: Transforming Information System Infrastructure with a Commercial BPM Suite. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 87. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21863-7_20
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