Business Process Management (BPM) for Microsoft

Singularity is a Gold Certified partner. Singularity's flagship product, the Singularity Process Platform (SPP), is designed from the ground up to fully exploit Microsoft's .NET technology and the Microsoft family of products. SPP deploys on Microsoft .NET and COM+ technology along with open standards such as BPMN, Web Services and LDAP.

Singularity’s industry solutions are tightly integrated with Microsoft productivity tools allowing organizations to implement these solutions while enabling the end-users to remain within their familiar Microsoft client interfaces. By leveraging to our client’s investment in Microsoft Singularity enables Business Process Management to become transparent to the end users and to be handled automatically behind the scenes, so that little or no action is required to obtain the benefits. This means there is minimal end-user training required with little or no disruption to the daily routines of the end-user.

The product integrates and builds on the broader Microsoft product range including Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, SQL Server, Live Communication Server, Exchange Server, Outlook, Visio, Excel and Word.

Accelerating business processes with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Singularity

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is fast becoming the content and document management system of choice for the enterprise. Singularity provides deep integration to SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007 as well as full interoperability with SharePoint Portal Server. Organizations can leverage the power of the MOSS document management and presentation capabilities integrated to Singularity’s market leading business process workflow automation technology. This combination provides an organization with the tools needed to enable them to streamline, automate and improve the way their key processes function

Highlights of our integration to MOSS 2007 include:

• Singularity business processes and workflows can create, store, retrieve, update and delete any documents held in MOSS 2007.
• Document creation, routing and approval can be graphically modeled by business users then executed without IT intervention.
• Tasks and documents are routed to the correct person at the right time automatically.
• Documents can be accessed from MOSS 2007 and displayed via Singularity interfaces or via MOSS.
• Singularity business processes can alert the user of MOSS events such as the creation or update of a document.
• MOSS events are used as triggers to initiate and control the flow of business processes. e.g. an approval workflow can halt and wait until a particular document has been received and stored within MOSS.
• Singularity workflow solutions to be delivered to end users via MOSS interfaces.

By exploiting Microsoft's technology, Singularity enables our customers to gain the benefits of process technology while leveraging their existing investment in Microsoft client and server products.

Benefits include:

• Support for time critical business processes using Microsoft's latest advances in 'presence' technology with Singularity's BPM Suite.
• Seamless integration of Singularity Process Platform to Microsoft Office applications, MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Live Communications Server.
• Reduced time to deploy using the MOSS 2007 interface to interact with Singularity business processes.
• Easy import of business process maps from Visio.
• Easy to use alerting and escalation by routing Singularity alerts via Microsoft Outlook emails.
• Instant access to simulation data provided through Microsoft Excel.
• Self documenting processes through integration of Singularity's process modeler with Microsoft Word.
• High speed system integration through Singularity's links to BizTalk Server.
• Improved performance, scalability and reliability by exploiting .NET's features such as Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and network load balancing module (NLB).