Software Business Process Management Approaches for Digital Transformation

Ivan Belev

doi:10.37075/YB.2018.1.06

Authors

Assist. Prof. Dr Ivan Belev Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Statistics, UNWE Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37075/YB.2018.1.06

Keywords:

Business process management, Digital process automation, Software, Digital transformation, BPM

C61, C88, O31

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the effect of the digital transformation of organizations on the evolution of business process management and the way BPM software is implemented. Research is made on the trends in business process management software over the past few years and the BPM implementation approaches to discover that as a result of the increasing technological shift of the organizations – business process management software has grown into what is now called - digital process automation software.

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