After evaluating various tools on the market, TIM selected IBM Blueworks Live as the basis for transforming its approach to business process management to prepare for future growth.
“We chose IBM Blueworks Live because it offers the process management capabilities we were looking for, and is very user-friendly,” says Christian Franzen. “In addition, the cloud delivery model helps us keep our IT environment simple. Because it is a cloud solution, we were able to start quickly, without a long lead time, upfront investments or administration costs.
“Today, all employees, no matter whether they are at our headquarters or one of our two international offices, have instant access to the latest process documentation in one place,” he continues. “We call it ‘one tool for everything’, as it offers us a centralized knowledge management tool for all processes, from holiday cover to audits.”
By automatically generating easy-to-understand flow charts, the solution helps TIM formalize and standardize processes based on best practices, storing guidelines, document templates and other supporting documentation together with the process information.
Using the REST API of IBM Blueworks Live, TIM AG automatically creates regular backups of documents and other artifacts stored in the cloud. That includes, for example, processes in the open BPMN 2.0 standard format. Furthermore, data from the cloud solution can be integrated with other applications and systems.
“Thanks to the expertise of the IBM Blueworks Live team, we got started quickly with the solution and adapted it to our needs, for example when implementing the automated local backup,” adds Christian Franzen. “It is a great product that strikes the right balance between simplicity and rich functionality.”