There is no integrated portfolio discipline without good business processes adoption. It is essential to improving organizational efficiency. The Business Process Manager (BPM, an integrated component of Planview Enterprise) helps you increase process adoption and accelerate process maturity to improve your organizational performance and enable more innovation.

BPM allows you to manage a broad range of business processes including custom designed processes and those that leverage industry leading process models such as Planview PRISMS, ITIL, PMBOK, PRINCE2 and CMMI. It helps you reach process excellence through adoption, compliance and continuous improvement by addressing four primary factors of process excellence: design, automation, adoption, and measurement.

• Flexible process design: your processes can be easily defined, modeled, and modified. BPM can model and bring visibility and automation to proprietary in-house best practices, or industry standard practices such as ITIL, PMBOK and PRINCE2. Why don't you start with the Planview PRISMS Process Library, an industry-leading business management process knowledge base and best practices library (PRISMS defines 7 major process areas: strategic planning; capacity management; demand management; funding and budgeting; work and resource management; cost management and benefit realization)?
  
• Operational efficiency through process automation: providing guide to the phases, gate reviews and key deliverables associated with a process.
  
• Portfolio management process adoption: BPM makes organizational processes available to all stakeholders. BPM accelerates process adoption by making processes more visible and accessible, and by allowing people to do what they need to do within the appropriate context without forcing unnecessary work.
• Process measurement leads to continuous improvement: BPM enables you to track the level of compliance to processes and report information about adoption, this includes which processes are being used and which are not and if not why not. In addition, BPM monitors review decisions. The reviews provide key indicators of the efficacy of organizational processes, monitoring what decisions were made by whom and when, as well as the justifications for making the decisions. Additionally, a complete audit trail is kept of who changed what and when. This substantially supports both internal and external audits.