Business processes are used to monitor business performance by defining a series of tasks that must be executed to achieve a particular strategic goal. Managing the vast amount of these processes becomes increasingly difficult as organizations become more complex. Process-centric solutions are the next step in business process management. In order to achieve this evolution, BPM tools must facilitate Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)™.

CPI is a unique approach to BPM, which focuses on managing business processes and easily adapting to business changes. CPI is a critical step in the evolution of BPM because it defines a method for rapidly and accurately improving business processes, as needed, one step at a time.

Lombardi Software’s BPM platform, TeamWorks® 4, was designed from the ground up to support Lombardi’s methodology of Continuous Process Improvement. Founded solely to address the BPM need, Lombardi has incorporated each of the requirements of CPI into every aspect of the product, and they work consistently, across components within a single, unified authoring environment (integrated development environment or IDE).