Ramco Systems today announced the availability of Business Process Platform™ (BPP) v3.0, a business process modeling and integrated service environment for composing agile, global-class applications. The Ramco BPP is the only platform that provides complete and continuous alignment between business processes and applications along with the ability to change those applications on demand as business requirements shift

Current software development approaches often fail to provide enterprises with sufficient flexibility and speed to respond and change to meet customer demands. The Ramco approach to application development—which models and manages applications independently from the architecture or infrastructure—results in applications that “change on demand” to support the changing needs of the business. With its “model-to-code” capability, the Ramco BPP automates the process of building customized enterprise-class applications by integrating dynamic process modeling, a business services repository, and an environment for composing the applications in a single solution.

As the foundation of the Ramco Business Process Delivery System (BPDS), the BPP is the backbone for building and deploying agile applications that are composed, not coded, using existing or newly created business services that represent common business processes. The Ramco BPDS includes a library of more than 1,000 pre-built business services that users deploy in the BPP to create new or update existing enterprise applications. These business services are reusable, pre-packaged business processes that represent best practices across a variety of verticals, including banking, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. The BPDS also includes Ramco Analytics, a business intelligence environment for managing, monitoring, and reporting on key business processes and critical business data in an executive dashboard environment.

“Ramco is one of very few vendors today capable of combining business processes, modeling technology, services architectures, and business services together into a single offering,” said Joshua Greenbaum, analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting. “The enhancements to the underlying technology in the Business Process Platform reinforce Ramco’s position as a leading software vendor that can help companies develop, deploy, and benefit from enterprise applications based on the latest SOA-based technologies.”

Ramco’s BPP helps preserve existing investments in application infrastructure and support an organization’s transition to a SOA. Based on SOA standards, the Ramco BPP provides a uniform, non-proprietary architecture that works with all technologies and infrastructure platforms. Key enhancements to the BPP include:

Legacy transformation: Improved asset discovery that automatically extracts business rules and business logic from legacy applications and brings them into the modeling environment. This information is then converted into new business services that can be reused with more modern architectures Governance and compliance: A framework to model business process that make it easy to include the necessary CGR requirements in the application and ensure compliance through monitoring and notification of exceptions BPEL support: Enhanced support for industry-standard BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) that enables rapid development and change-on-demand capabilities, and ensures interoperability with existing business process modeling and workflow systems

“Ramco has consistently delivered the technology and services we need to create a more agile IT infrastructure, and the enhancements to the Ramco Business Process Platform demonstrate that they are continuing to respond to our evolving customer requirements,” said Bruce Eaton, vice president for lending technology at Commerce Bank, a New Jersey-based bank with assets of more than $43 Billion. Commerce Bank is using the Ramco BPDS to automate its key commercial loan origination processes, including customer relationship management, underwriting, customer due diligence, loan closing, and loan booking.

“Ramco’s BPP makes composable enterprise applications a reality. The unique blueprinting capabilities of the Ramco BPP allow us to deliver a flexible process model that serves as the foundation for business applications that easily adapt to the enterprise,” said Barbara Saxby, chief marketing officer for Ramco. “Business applications built with Ramco’s BPDS continuously support business processes without becoming irrelevant or inhibiting innovation—a capability that is simply impossible with traditional application development methods.”

Ramco Systems has been providing enterprise software solutions worldwide for more than 10 years. Today, Ramco delivers solutions and services to more than 300 companies around the world. From its beginnings in ERP, Ramco solutions have been built on a foundation of service-oriented technologies. Ramco provides the only complete Business Process Platform that addresses the full lifecycle of customer needs – from business processes to application deployment – with a technology-agnostic platform.

Pricing and Availability
The Ramco Business Process Platform is now available as a hosted solution on a per user basis. Ramco also offers professional services for consulting, implementation, training, and support services to help enterprises transform their business applications. Pricing information is available upon request.