eBuilder: Head in the clouds

eBuilder’s CEO, Bengt Wallentin, explains how cloud processes for your value network can give you a competitive edge in a hyper-connected, complex business environment.

How do you achieve optimum control and efficiency in a value network made up of your partners and their relevant systems? How can you integrate thoroughly and still retain the flexibility needed to deal with a constantly changing business environment?

Bengt Wallentin: Today's business environment is increasingly complex, changeable, and competitive. If your business is highly interconnected and multi-enterprise; if you collaborate with numerous business partners (your value network) for a significant share of your added value; you know the critical importance of operational, tactical, and strategic management of the business processes in this value network. eBuilder's Cloud Processes integrate and automate the business processes of the entire value network - all the collaborating parties and their relevant systems. This gives you end-to-end control driven by the business logic and rules configured in the Cloud Process. It gives you end-to-end visibility of the entire value network based on real-time information and access to all key master information, whether it resides inside or outside your own organisation.

Traditional methods and tools originating from ERP and Best of Breed Initiatives are no longer sufficient to manage the widely-distributed, business-critical resources in the value network because they give poor transparency, weak synchronisation, and rising costs.

Today, the internet, business process management (BPM) and integration technology, together with our cloud computing paradigm, constitute a completely new option that enables companies to take control of, and manage, their value networks.

The core enabler is eBuilder's Cloud Processes, which establish the collaborative format that defines how the participants in the value network will produce added value for their customers and how the added value will be measured, reported and reimbursed. These cloud processes are connected end-to-end, and they automate and optimise execution of business processes thousands of times faster than human staff, at a fraction of the cost. So the bulk of administrative tasks and critical business logic, are handled automatically in seconds, with better quality and consistency. These cloud processes enable you to manage business-critical information that lies outside your organisation, often information about assets you own but that others control in the value network. Background information (charts of accounts, personal profiles, agreements, service level agreements, etc.) that were scattered throughout your own and other organisations are now centrally managed and controlled.

What are the concrete advantages of end-to-end integration and automation in the Cloud?

BW: Connecting the value network using eBuilder Cloud Processes leads to dramatic improvements in business performance (where often more than 50 percent of administrative costs can be eliminated), significantly increased quality and customer satisfaction, measurably reduced lead times. In general it lowers costs by three to 15 percent. Managing complexity is no longer a problem - every step of millions of business transactions can be monitored in real time. The smartest business rules are applied to the specific situation. Easily configurable business logic and central management of business-critical information give you the agility to quickly and effectively react to changes in your business environment.

Biography

eBuilder CEO, Bengt Wallentin, has over 30 years of experience in the international technology and services businesses. Prior to founding eBuilder he served as President and CEO for 18 years at Frontec with over 1200 employees. Wallentin has a Masters degree in electronic engineering and a Bachelors degree in Business administration.