Business workflow analysis

Business workflow analysis (BWA), also known as business management systems p2p, is a management tool that streamlines, automates and improves the efficiency of business procedures.

Overview
As part of the move towards the paperless office, BWA is a method allowing businesses to better comprehend their current needs and to establish future goals. The long-term objectives of BWA are those of reducing transaction costs and managing performance.

BWA generally necessitates the participation of:

BWA in actions such as routing documents to different locations, securing approvals, scheduling and generating reports.
 * Employees whose everyday role includes the processing, handling and sharing of documents.
 * Experts with a vision of how the work should be done.
 * IT staff with an understanding about how the vision could be translated into a realistic solution.
 * A facilitator whose role it is to manage the project and keep to specified limits in time and expenditure.