Channel partners are expanding their cloud portfolios, often with multiple cloud service provider solutions. As service providers onboard, separate order and billing processes are enabled for each. As the list of service provider solutions grows the management of multiple order processes and disparate data for billing grows in parallel.
Project management software is a list of tasks and task assignments to be managed and completed within a specific timeframe for a specific customer. Templates can be pre-defined based on product type or solution ordered by the customer.
Workflow management brings project management capabilities into a PSA or billing platform, where the order is initiated. Templates can be pre-defined based on product type, often called “processes”, however, are manually assigned to the order and manually executed. It is important to recognize there is no direct correlation between the product and the workflow. It is simply built in project management functionality.
Both the project management software and workflow management manage the many tasks associated with complex business processes, however, they do not reduce the number of tasks need to complete a process.
Reducing the number of tasks requires Process Automation. Process automation manages business rules, notifications and data associated with the order of a particular product. For example: Place the order in a “pending” status until provisioning is complete then update the status to “active” or send a request via api for a software id and once received generate a notification to a CSR to contact the customer. Process automation can reduce tasks, and resources to complete tasks, as much as 75%.
Orchestration combines process automation and human processes. Most importantly these processes are generated dynamically based on customer information, order information and product information. No one process is necessarily like the other because the tasks, whether automated or not, are determined by multiple factors relevant to the most successful outcome of the order. Orchestration also has the ability to manage processes based on multiple sources of external data. In this case data is mediated into a single record and associated to a customer, product and order. The process can then be triggered based on this data. One example many are familiar with is the generating a customer notification based on usage against plan.
Hope this helps put things into context for those struggling with process issues. To discuss how BluLogix can help, contact us at sales@blulogix.com .
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