Name: OpenText Solutions Business Manager
Rating: 5.7 (9 reviews)
Author: OpenText

Call Center Workforce Optimization

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Functional Testing

Kubernetes Monitoring

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Content Management

Integrated Workplace Management (IWMS)

PDF Editors

Privacy Policy Generators

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounts Payable

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Stock Option Plan Administration

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Vendor Management Systems (VMS)

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printing

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Composable Infrastructure

Data Collaboration

Deception Technology

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Performance Monitoring

LAN Switches

Network Performance Monitoring

Remote Desktop

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

SaaS Backup

Service Desk Outsourcing

Software Asset Management

Storage Management

Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

User Virtualization

Vector Databases

Web Scraping

Zero Trust Security Solutions

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Advocacy

Digital Content Creation

Email Deliverability

Email Marketing

Employee Advocacy

Headless CMS

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Field Sales Software

Government Contracting

Social Commerce

Sales

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Security

Awards Management

Card Management

Dealer Management

Healthcare Learning Management

Investment Portfolio Management

Medical Scheduling

Retail Analytics

Text Analysis

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OpenText™ Solutions Business Manager, formerly from Micro Focus is enterprise-scale business process automation software.  It helps IT quickly create, adapt, deploy, and govern process-based apps and workflows for humans and systems across the organization.

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OpenText Solutions Business Manager

Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and optimizing a company's business processes, with the goal of improving corporate performance. BPM usually involves designing, modeling, implementing and measuring workflows and business rules, thus helping companies to refine and optimize processes that involve human interaction or multiple business applications. BPM is often a juncture between IT and business departments at a company.

BPM software supports the activity of BPM with capabilities such as case management, application development, workflow design and modeling, business rules engine, and reporting and alerting.

Business Process Management (BPM)

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenText is a leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). EIM enables organizations to grow the business, lower costs of operations, and reduce information governance and security related risks. OpenText focuses on the key drivers of business success to improve business insight, strengthen business impact, accelerate process velocity, address information governance and provide security.

Process Engine

Process designer

Web-based tool for creating and customizing web process models

Process simulation

Evaluating model performance with real data, and optimizing

Business rules engine

Business rules engine allows non developers to change business logic in a model

SOA support

Support for reusable services to be built into process design

Process player

Step-by-step analysis of model to validate business rules

Support for modeling languages

Support for modeling languages like BPML, BPEL, and BMMN.

Form builder

Model execution

Ability to execute model and build code without programming skills

Collaboration tools allowing BPM experts to collaborate on model design

Social collaboration tools

Social tools for discussion threads, wikis, enabling decision making

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

Dashboards

Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

Standard reports

The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

Custom reports

Content Management Capabilties

Content management

Content management tool for storing and managing versioning of electronic documents, images, etc.

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Business Process Engineer

Serena Business Manager 2015-09-17 10:31:19

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Bit challenging

Knowledge base

Nice feature

Well written

Notification feature

Time consuming

Tips and tricks

Previously created

Customer support

Bit tricky

Specific report

New hires

Easy to use

Set up

User interface

Run time

Create reports

New processes

Use the reporting

System provides

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[The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent Early Warning’s positions, strategies or opinions.]Serena Business Manager is used across the entire organization by all of our employees. It addresses our largest business processes such as procurement requests and our service desk functions. There are currently forty-five processes inside of Serena that span across all of our departments and business needs. The processes provide users with standard and consistent methods for requesting various items.

One of my favorite capabilities within the Serena user interface is the reporting. Detailed searches into the workflows allow the users to create reports containing any field that is in the workflow. Users here use the reporting during review time to pull metrics on tickets they have worked during the year. From a process perspective, the system provides a specific report with details around how long the items have been in various states. I use this information to measure my process peformance and to identify bottlenecks within the processes themselves. The reports are fairly easy to use but they can also be very complex too. Reports can be set up and shared across groups. Generic reports can also be set up so that query at run time fields can be entered.
Developing new processes in Serena Business Manager is relatively easy and does not necessarily need to be done by a developer. Serena has added some key features that reduces the need to add Java scripts. Serena Business Manager is a blank slate and it can be as complex or as simple as you make it. The forms are the same. I have seen some very simple designs and some very complex and beautiful form designs.
From a user perspective, it is fairly simple to just pick up and start using. I introduce our new hires to the systems in a thirty minute session. Most users are more confused by which process to use for what than by how to use the system.

Serena's documentation for the product is well written but it can be a bit challenging because it is often missing key components, best practices or tips and tricks that you get when you call into their customer support. It is also very frustrating to have their release notes refer back to their knowledge base to have their customers figure out what they fixed in their releases.
Serena Business Manager manages their users in an Administrator function. Any changes made in this part of Serena is only logged in the database. It would be nice to have some reporting out of of this system. When you have multiple administrators of a system, it would be a nice feature to have some reporting here rather than having to go into the database.
The notification feature within Serena can be a bit challenging and time consuming. You can't copy the notifications so if you want to duplicate a notification you had previously created you have to recreate it again. The notifications have three levels to them and they can be a bit tricky to get them to work just right.

We use Serena to standardize our business processes to ensure a more efficient work day experience for our employees. By having the employees use Serena for the processes we can ensure the process is completed the same way every time.
By having our key processes in Serena we are able to measure our processes at any time. Some of those key metrics include a 90% reduction in rework and a 47% reduction in overall process time. With the ability to measure processes at any time, we can react to process problems and correct them quickly. Serena Business Manager is flexible enough to allow quick development and rapid promotion when necessary.
Serena is very ingrained in our culture and the culture has taken on the "ticket" mentality unfortunately. With everyone trying to measure their work and justify their body counts through ticket counts, having a ticket opened for every act of work has become the standard.

We run our Service Desk (Help Desk) processes through this system. It is the most used on a daily basis. All our IT tickets go through this process. Incidents, server requests, firewall and user support tickets go through this process. However our new employee tickets also go through here in addition to our general IT requests as well as our access requests.
Our change control process also runs through this application.
We have several Finance processes that are specific to our organization running through here.

OpenText Solutions Business Manager
Formerly Micro Focus Solutions Business Manager

Overview

What is OpenText Solutions Business Manager?