Schneider Electric Software: Improving the Productivity Profitability and Business Agility Of Enterp
The global Business Process Management (BPM) market as estimated by a renowned research firm will become worth USD 13.52 Billion by 2021. BPM is continually reinventing and transforming itself, leading to a multi-fold growth in revenue and achieving the set business goals. The growth wave promises to soar higher with the escalating demand of new technologies like social media platforms, advanced analytics, and mobility. Offering a holistic view of business performance with delivery of operational and cost efficiencies, today’s BPM solutions are increasingly being designed to adapt to changing customer imperatives in the new age of digital transformation. However, organizations need to ensure adherence to certain specifications for a successful BPM implementation. Agility, interoperability, scalability, better customer engagement, intuitive User Interface (UI) of BPM software and targeting mission critical processes instead of typically focusing on easier functions to convert them into measurable values are the concerns while choosing the right BPM implementation partner.Established in 2004, Schneider Electric Software, propelling open and secure communications across people, systems and applications, offers Wonder ware Skelta BPM solution perfectly designed to ensure customer centricity. Additionally, it is a comprehensive BPM tool with a highly intuitive User Interface that permits both developers and business users akin to create, execute, manage, monitor and optimize processes.“With the backing of Schneider Electric, pioneers in enabling IoT, Industry 4.0,Smart Manufacturing and digital transformation, we are an integral part of the larger organization, enabling our customers to leverage the full capabilities of the IoT and digital transformation,” says Keith Chambers, Director of Operations and Execution Systems, Schneider Electric.
With a collective experience of over a century in the industrial software markets, Schneider Electric Software is proclaimed to be one of the global leaders in energy management and automation. The company is one of the world's leading developers and suppliers of industrial software with a stronghold on positions in visualization and supervisory control, process design, simulation and optimization, real time operations management, information management and asset management. “Our hardware and system- agnostic software solutions enable our customers to improve productivity, profitability and business agility across multiple industries,” affirms Keith.
A Faster Process Automation
Schneider, with their reputation to have worked with a spectrum of renowned clients in implementation of BPM solutions recently assisted Fujirebio, a manufacturer of biomarkers. Prior to working with Schneider, the company spent a significant amount of time each day manually reviewing reports from their paper-based Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) record system. It was agreed that manually maintaining a record system can be time consuming while also vulnerable to human error and a new system was required to enable compliance with federal regulation.
Approaching Schneider with their dilemma, the company implemented a digital electronic monitoring system with integrated BPM, automating manual processes to enable staff to generate electronic records and file them automatically. Essentially, the BPM solution routes critical reports for review and approval, and ensures that vital workflows are executed correctly every time. “The solution enabled Fujirebio to maintain 21 CFR Part 11 compliance and ISO 9001 and 13484 certification. Data review time has been reduced from more than 15 hours to just minutes, and the system saves about 1,100 man hours per year,” declares Keith.
Yet another satisfied customer who partnered with Schneider, Roland DGA’s accounting team previously witnessed an urgent need to automate and simplify their manual Accounts Payable process. Followed by a detailed understanding of the client’s requirement, Schneider successfully implemented a BPM solution to streamline and automate processes. The invoice approval time that initially took weeks was significantly reduced to just two to three days permitting allocation of excess man hours and resources to cater to other business requirements within the organization.
Improving Operational Profitability
With an inventory of software solutions aiding businesses across multiple verticals, Schneider’s software portfolio is a part of the EcoStruxure architecture, an IoT enabled system, which helps to ensure interoperability and process standardization across the enterprise. In addition to that, with significant market experience, the platform is fashioned in a way to proffer product connectivity, manage edge control and apply applications and services within a framework that can be effortlessly secured, managed and adapted on a go forward basis. Furthermore, the solutions work with a common data model, assisting to further streamline the collection and normalization of data thereby creating substantial value to the customers by accelerating how instantaneously the precise information can be presented to the particular individual, at the right time. “Every day our customers benefit from the experience gained through a world-class ecosystem of 4,000 partners and 160,000 developers that have deployed two million licenses operating across 20 billion operating parameters, generating four trillion industrial transactions that are processed and stored every day,”shares Keith.
Designing,executing and managing the business process
With an intricate global network of sales offices and system integrators, Wonder ware Skelta BPM is a complete feature rich platform that allows users to design, execute and manage work through out the process life cycle followed by a successful execution. During the initial design phase, users as per their preference can effortlessly configure the task delivery channels with native support to mobile, web or outlook or a combination of the same, while simultaneously ensuring security with the security infrastructure provided by the platform.
In conjunction with this, Skelta has a very strong Business Activity Monitoring functionality that assists businesses to perform continuous process improvements on the basis of the available native reports. The key stakeholder is provided with a comprehensive report that features a complete audit trail of the processes; an amalgamation of its current status, future steps and past history.“Skelta empowers business users to drive business conversations and decisions using tools of their choice rapidly and efficiently,” affirms Keith.
Aligning business processes with its business strategies through centralized process management, enterprise users leverage the Skelta platform to enable collaborative process modelling, implementation, administration and optimization between business and IT stakeholders. Any users, right from Analysts, Developers, and Business Owners to Managers can easily implement the BPM system. Keith reveals, “From the viewpoint of a developer, the platform is an agile, low-code application development platform that helps to rapidly build and deploy business process applications with ‘zero’ dependency to any external IDE’s.” Enabling process agility in line with market dynamics, improving organizational performance and delivering measurable value to customers and other stakeholders are some of the highlights of the novel product.
Simultaneously, empowering Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), Wonderware Skelta BPM is one of the fastest ways to add sophisticated workflow components to solutions and products. OEMs can leverage the platform’s white labelled business process management capabilities. The tailor-made BPM components are 100 percent embeddable and can be seamlessly integrated with company’s current applications while retaining the existing brand identity.
Simplifying System Management
Perfecting the role of providing flexibility and ease of business process management, Schneider’s Manufacturing Operations Management solutions deliver real-time visibility and control to aid manufacturers in seamlessly managing their operations, standardizing best practices and tracking operations performance. Powered by Wonder ware and Skelta BPM, the cutting-edge solution can be deployed either on-premise, from the cloud or as a hybrid model. Schneider attributes the success of this solution to the embedded BPM that adds a colossal amount of value to the solution. It essentially helps in simplifying how the system is managed, how process improvements are implemented and how overall enterprise performance is visualized in a centralized dashboard.
Apart from these offerings, the company has also created a plethora of cutting edge applications like CAPEX, Accounts Payable, and Document Management System to help companies take full advantage of Skelta’s powerful interface and integration technology to achieve the desired result. Believing in driving efficiency and making their contribution towards helping offices go paperless, the end-to-end Document Management System, built on Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure, creates, captures, manages, delivers and archives phenomenal volumes of critical data. Understanding that enterprises have apprehensions of implementing a DMS solution due to probable loss of data, Schneider ensures retrieval of documents through powerful search functionality and efficient security management and access rights to documents. Enabling businesses to create an enterprise repository of critical documents, the system defines workflows for automated routing and processing of documents while simultaneously ensuring a notable amount of reduction in time and costs of document-based processes.
Harnessing the powerful advantages of evolving BPM technology revolution, Schneider and the team with their in depth skill set have perfectly equipped themselves to maintain their position as one of the leading solution providers in the BPM realm.
With an intricate global network of sales offices and system integrators, Wonder ware Skelta BPM is a complete feature rich platform that allows users to design, execute and manage work through out the process life cycle followed by a successful execution. During the initial design phase, users as per their preference can effortlessly configure the task delivery channels with native support to mobile, web or outlook or a combination of the same, while simultaneously ensuring security with the security infrastructure provided by the platform.
Skelta empowers business users to drive business conversations and decisions using tools of their choice rapidly and efficiently
In conjunction with this, Skelta has a very strong Business Activity Monitoring functionality that assists businesses to perform continuous process improvements on the basis of the available native reports. The key stakeholder is provided with a comprehensive report that features a complete audit trail of the processes; an amalgamation of its current status, future steps and past history.“Skelta empowers business users to drive business conversations and decisions using tools of their choice rapidly and efficiently,” affirms Keith.
Aligning business processes with its business strategies through centralized process management, enterprise users leverage the Skelta platform to enable collaborative process modelling, implementation, administration and optimization between business and IT stakeholders. Any users, right from Analysts, Developers, and Business Owners to Managers can easily implement the BPM system. Keith reveals, “From the viewpoint of a developer, the platform is an agile, low-code application development platform that helps to rapidly build and deploy business process applications with ‘zero’ dependency to any external IDE’s.” Enabling process agility in line with market dynamics, improving organizational performance and delivering measurable value to customers and other stakeholders are some of the highlights of the novel product.
Simultaneously, empowering Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), Wonderware Skelta BPM is one of the fastest ways to add sophisticated workflow components to solutions and products. OEMs can leverage the platform’s white labelled business process management capabilities. The tailor-made BPM components are 100 percent embeddable and can be seamlessly integrated with company’s current applications while retaining the existing brand identity.
Simplifying System Management
Perfecting the role of providing flexibility and ease of business process management, Schneider’s Manufacturing Operations Management solutions deliver real-time visibility and control to aid manufacturers in seamlessly managing their operations, standardizing best practices and tracking operations performance. Powered by Wonder ware and Skelta BPM, the cutting-edge solution can be deployed either on-premise, from the cloud or as a hybrid model. Schneider attributes the success of this solution to the embedded BPM that adds a colossal amount of value to the solution. It essentially helps in simplifying how the system is managed, how process improvements are implemented and how overall enterprise performance is visualized in a centralized dashboard.
Apart from these offerings, the company has also created a plethora of cutting edge applications like CAPEX, Accounts Payable, and Document Management System to help companies take full advantage of Skelta’s powerful interface and integration technology to achieve the desired result. Believing in driving efficiency and making their contribution towards helping offices go paperless, the end-to-end Document Management System, built on Microsoft SharePoint infrastructure, creates, captures, manages, delivers and archives phenomenal volumes of critical data. Understanding that enterprises have apprehensions of implementing a DMS solution due to probable loss of data, Schneider ensures retrieval of documents through powerful search functionality and efficient security management and access rights to documents. Enabling businesses to create an enterprise repository of critical documents, the system defines workflows for automated routing and processing of documents while simultaneously ensuring a notable amount of reduction in time and costs of document-based processes.
Harnessing the powerful advantages of evolving BPM technology revolution, Schneider and the team with their in depth skill set have perfectly equipped themselves to maintain their position as one of the leading solution providers in the BPM realm.
