Promoting Business Process Management Excellence in Russia

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Public Sector (19 %),
Energy and Utilities (12 %).
These facts retrieved from empirical studies and other interesting aspects of BPM development
in Russia presented by conferences’ participants were at the heart of the conferences’ discussion
in 2012. Thus, during the conferences BPM practitioners highlighted the following key findings of
BPM practice:
Major Russian companies perform Business Process Modeling and Management (AHConferences,
2012).
ARIS modeling tool alongside with EPC notation is still the most popular bundle for modeling
business processes at Russian large enterprises (AHConferences, 2012).
Most of the companies still automate their business processes in ERP and Electronic Document
Management Systems (EDMS). Nevertheless, the role of BPMS is getting more important at
the expense of slow reduction of EDMS use (AHConferences, 2012).
More companies set up internal dedicated organizational units which are fully responsible for
BPM in the company (AHConferences, 2012).
There is still a noticeable gap between business and IT teams in terms of how they perceive
the role of BPM and approaches to it (Cnews, 2012b).
Regarding future BPM trends, as it was noted earlier, the Russian market is not in the stream
of the latest BPM developments. However, some aspects related to emerging needs in Russian
BPM practice were mentioned in brief during BPM-devoted conferences in Moscow. Discussed
future BPM trends closely correlate with the overall global tendencies and are listed below:
Handheld tablets as well as extensive usage of smartphones set up a growing demand for
mobile BPM tools and platforms.
Significant portion of mergers and acquisitions in the Russian market raise needs for business
process harmonization, including the involvement of different organizational units into process
design and modeling. As a result, there is a great demand for supporting collaborative BPM
and design coming from business in the nearest future (Cnews, 2012a).
The earliest explorer of Russian BPM and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market – the
company Logica Business 2.0 7 – actively promotes S-BPM in Russia (AHConferences, 2012).
1.4 Conclusion
In this paper, it was attempted very briefly to identify and present the current status of BPM
developments in Russia. We addressed this objective by examining the reports of recent BPM
conferences held in Russia. This helped us to get an overview on the status quo of BPM from two
perspectives: how it is developed in Russian research field and how widely it is used in practice.
The findings reveal that BPM both in research and practice is at an emerging position in the
country. Nevertheless, a growing importance of the topic and an increased interest in BPM could
be observed.
In the scientific field, there is increased BPM research activity. This is evident from (1) an established
degree at Russian universities as well as organized research groups working together with
7 http://www.blogic20.ru/