Executive Summary

The SST Technology

Rapid, continuous change is the nature of all successful business processes. Replacing the expensive lifecycle of developing static tracking applications with adaptive infrastructures that go beyond best practices can provide a foundation for a culture of process improvement focused on quality and excellence. Built as a .NET integration of six Microsoft platforms and Server 2003 .NET, the BPM Process Office represents a new class of solution accelerator for business process compliance, workflow, collaboration and information visibility.

"I believe our industry has a responsibility, and an opportunity, to dramatically simplify the computing environment by seamlessly weaving together all of the devices, services and multiple layers of software into a coherent, efficiently managed technology framework" Steve Ballmer

The  Framework is innovation of this magnitude. Our patent pending technology for delivering Business Process Management applications without the time, risk and expense of classic software development. Simply, it is a new class of application software that constructs itself in the process of defining what and how things are done.

For example, as a banker describes bank workflow, a banking BPM system is constructed. As a federal department describes its agencies' processes, an end-to-end solution for process definition, compliance, collaboration, workflow and information visibility is constructed.

The vision of the Framework is that a framework of multi-platform "glue code" components can be engineered to adapt to changing metadata content and process flows, controlled by visual user interfaces and XML. Leveraging these visual interfaces, business level resources can then; design, manage, deploy and improve complex information systems without the expensive, static work/re-work cycles of conventional software approaches.

SofScience makes this possible by positioning process, not data, as the foundation of business design and infrastructure.; We manages the entire life cycle of enterprise process design, from creation, to disposal. Because process management drives both process improvement and radical change, it provides the missing link between IT investments and the return on those investments. And because we separates business processes from their supporting IT infrastructures, a company can establish a stable environment in which business processes can be fully managed by business units in the dynamic process of doing business.

20 years ago the relational database technologies gave business a stable and scalable way of storing data yet the economic focus of business improvement today has shifted attention away from data to process. We are witnessing the birth of new thinking around business processes and with it new products and services. Companies want a direct path from process discovery and design to execution and optimization not hindered by legacy systems or software development timelines.

We are at a tipping point in the use of IT away from data storage, data transport and data processing to process storage, process transport and process processing.

The SST Process Authoring Technology is a new class of adaptive middleware that become an end-to-end BPM solution by visually defining what and how you do business.