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e.POWER® - A Software Platform for Business Process Management

Click here to read the PDF.By connecting people with business transactions and information technology, e.POWER® delivers the value of business process management and online solutions. e.POWER combines the innovative use of process automation and application integration to deliver substantial online solutions.

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Orchestrating the Enterprise Process - combining information with decisions and actions

ePowerOrchestrating the interaction between departments and even between organizations helps generate significant return on investment. Information in one department or organization effects decisions in another. The decisions define actions in the first organization as well as the second. Results are measured and become information as the cycle continues. Shortening the cycle and reducing errors increases mission effectiveness.

e.POWER delivers the following capabilities for business process management. These capabilities address the key requirements for automating an enterprise process:

  • Define and manage business process with a graphical map.
  • Manage support documents and data with a single view.
  • Accept user-defined electronic forms.
  • Integrate with both enterprise applications and legacy systems.
  • Support rapid change in the business rules.
  • Support business activity monitoring on a real-time basis.

Business Benefits:

  • Monitor resources and outcomes
  • Enforce standards and achieve best practices
  • Support rapid process change, business agility
  • Shorten cycle times, time-to-completion
  • Improve accuracy and quality

e.POWER is in use today, automating business-critical processes in the Federal government, state and local governments, and the Fortune 1000. With e.POWER, organizations eliminate paper and automate a wide range of processes:

  • Human Capital Management (HCM) – Automating Human Resource (HR) procedures, connecting with ERP for HR Information, eliminating paper-based personnel folders.
  • Identity management, certification, licensing – Tracking the material, vetting the individual to establish a trusted identity; a certified, specially licensed individual.
  • Case management – Collecting information automatically, replacing paper with electronic forms, supporting a wide range of cases from insurance claims to patient records in clinical studies.
  • Contracts and vendor management – Managing all interactions with vendors from contract initiation, through payments, modifications and termination, providing a virtual contract file accessible both locally and remotely.


In every solution, e.POWER addresses the following imperatives of an integrated business:

  1. Real-time response in all business practices 
  2. End-to-end transaction flow from initiation to fulfillment 
  3. Unify enterprise applications, access information at its source 
  4. Address document-centric transactions 
  5. Rapid deployment for business improvements 
  6. Support global requirements remove barriers for internal and external users 
  7. Balance workload to maintain high response rates 
  8. Monitor and control business flow
  9. Automate every task that cannot be eliminated. Eliminate every task that cannot be automated.


In return, e.POWER delivers the following benefits:

  • Achieve rapid response to changing business needs.
    e.POWER builds on existing information technology and connects with leading enterprise applications. Organizations use e.POWER applications as a starting point, making adjustments to reflect their specific business model.
  • Reduce operating costs and eliminate administrative delays.
    e.POWER reflects an organization’s business logic and insures consistent execution. e.POWER provides tools to monitor activity and results so the enterprise can make adjustments, balance workload and avoid unnecessary delays.
  • Improve accuracy & increase flexibility of enterprise applications.
    e.POWER connects users to information at its source, feeding information to users as they do their job.

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