BBC 2020 Sponsors and Partners

NTT COMWARE is the “one-stop” solution enterprise that delivers total support for today’s cutting-edge information technology.

Our core expertise in networks, middleware, and system development ranks among the best in Japan, and is supported by an array of state-of-the-art facilities.

Signavio is the next generation of Business Process Management (BPM) trusted by over 1,000 companies worldwide. Signavio Business Transformation Suite is a modern solution designed to leverage the interfaces, devices, and working practices of today with the future of your business in mind. The suite consists of three distinct products, Process Manager, Workflow Accelerator, and Process Intelligence, in addition to the Collaboration Hub, which integrates with each product and creates a single source of truth. Managing processes, automating workflows, and analyzing process-related data has never been easier. 

Capsifi is a leading provider of software for business model innovation. Our cloud-based modelling platform, Jalapeno, supports planning and managing a business transformation from conception through to execution. We help customers optimize their agility & business performance, establishing the business model as a dynamic, interactive and enduring business asset.

Jalapeno is underpinned by an integrated semantic meta-model that enables traceability and alignment of business knowledge to provide full line-of-sight from strategy to delivery.

Founded in 2013, our company and product have been built around the core philosophy of placing customers at the heart of everything we do. This principle continues to guide our vision, our imagination and the innovation in our offerings to ensure we are delivering the highest value to our customers in both meeting their needs and providing a stellar experience.

With the Global Headquarters in Sydney, Capsifi has clients in the USA, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

Blackmetric is a niche consultancy specializing in business analysis consultancy and training. Whether you’re looking for a practical, hands-on and tailored virtual training course for your BA team, or remote help when setting up a project, we can help. Check out our website at www.blackmetric.com for more information. Also, be sure to check out our regular courses and free #BACommunity webinars at www.blackmetric.com/events We look forward to seeing you at the conference!  

BRS empowers organizations to gain insights from their data and knowledge.  Our unique focus on data, AI, vocabulary, and rules enables you to produce better business outcomes, work smarter, manage change and complexity, and develop solutions faster. Our training is recognized worldwide for providing critical skills for analysis, business transformation, and AI deployment. We literally teach you how to think differently.

We are Netmind (formerly B2T Training)! Our experts help teams promote and lead digital transformations by utilizing training and support services as a strategic tool to develop their talent, promote powerful cultural changes, and transform their management models.

Transformation should start with people… specifically, your people. Our learning events are developed through participatory processes that are facilitated by our experts and led by your teams. We work by focusing our efforts on delivering frameworks of action to facilitate new ways of working that are aligned with the organizational strategy and business objectives.

We believe that a tangible shift requires education and empowerment of its people to significantly change an organization’s DNA. The new business model must be built on a continuous, active, collaborative learning culture that connects people to training and the information they need to successfully implement its digital strategy. At Netmind, we are #AlwaysLearning and empowering digital teams to do the same!

The Process Renewal Group is a consulting organization committed to helping its clients successfully manage business change. Our mission is to help dramatically improve our client’s performance through the renewal of business strategies, capabilities and business processes as well as the innovative application of information technologies. Our services include Business Architecture, Business Process Management, Process Improvement and Culture Change. We do this through hands on consulting, training classes, workshop facilitation as well as coaching and mentoring. Our goal to make a lasting difference in our clients’ effectiveness by helping them to deliver creative, sustainable and pragmatic business approaches and solutions. PRG is the longest running and most experienced BPM professional services company in the world having formed in 1993 and having sustained long-term business relationships with many organizations. We have chaired over fifty conferences and trained over seventy five thousand professionals on advanced process and architectural approaches in this time. PRG is also a founding partner in the establishment of BPTrends.

To compete in today’s hyper-connected world, enterprises need a digital strategy that delivers continuous innovation and drives ongoing transformation. Software AG’s ARIS is the market-leading business transformation suite that enables businesses to achieve sustainable and compliant operational excellence.

ARIS is the only platform offering a true integration between process mining, process design, and risk & compliance management, making it uniquely able to handle the complete process improvement lifecycle while managing risk and compliance. With ARIS, you can create, manage and analyze your end-to-end business processes, enabling operational excellence and giving all stakeholders the tools and process insights to make better decisions every day. Learn more at www.softwareag.com or try ARIS for free.

Modern Requirements (formerly eDevTech), is a requirements management software company headquartered in Toronto Canada.

Recognized worldwide for its products, Modern Requirements4TFS and Smart Office4TFS; it provides a collaborative requirements environment, uniquely built into Microsoft Team Foundation Server, or cloud based Visual Studio Team Services.

The software reduces time to value delivery by providing users with end to end traceability, ingenious process automation, one source of truth, and visualization support; all in a highly scalable and secure environment.

It allows users to define and analyze just the right amount of requirements, in collaboration with their ALM, DevOps, or product development teams. Agile, hybrid and structured requirements teams have consistently reported completing their projects in half the time, reducing development rework, streamlining regulatory compliance and improving project quality.

Modern Requirements4TFS is made available by Microsoft, as part of Visual Studio Enterprise; and is being used by thousands of large, prestigious organizations worldwide. 

For over 30 years, Watermark Learning, an Educate360 brand, has been a leader in the Business Analysis, Business Process Management, and Leadership skills and certification preparation training, consulting, and coaching space. Watermark Learning courses are interactive sessions that teach complex industry standards through practical application to support enduring performance results in organizations. Watermark Learning is an IIBA Endorsed Education Provider, an APMG Accredited Training Organization, and a Business Relationship Management Institute (BRMi) Knowledge Provider. Watermark Learning instructors have an average of 25+ years business experience and are practicing consultants and authorities in their respective fields. The company’s founders and instructors are published authors of articles, books, and contributors to BOKs across industry-leading governing bodies, including IIBA and PMI. Visit us at: www.watermarklearning.com | www.educate360.com.

Scheer America’s helps organizations in the Financial, Health, Manufacturing / Technology, and Consumer Goods industries achieve the right Process Performance and Digitalization by establishing and applying business process management capabilities. We deliver rapid process improvement and transformation, prepare for smart automation, develop stakeholder journey plans and establish an appropriate process management discipline with the right organization, governance and process tools through our consulting, education and software solutions.

We leverage our deep process management knowledge to help organizations achieve fast and reliable results. We connect business strategy to processes and improvement initiatives to target and realize value while establishing a lasting process management discipline. We enable process and data governance; we establish process modelling, repositories and process mining using tools like SAP Signavio. We have deep expertise in process-led digital transformation, process performance management, process design, stakeholder journey mapping, repository set-up and roll-out, and process mining.

The results of business capability development using Envision from Future Tech Systems have been at the root of some substantial strategy changes for corporations that are household names in the US.

Envision enables government and commercial enterprises to model business capabilities and then leverage that knowledge to drive optimisation.  Managers use Envision to create better business strategies, to mitigate risk, and to focus diverse resources on value creation.

Future Tech Systems Inc have been continually improving their flagship product, Envision, for over 30 years.  A function-rich business object repository, Envision is used by organisations large and small as a portfolio of closely coupled business transformation apps in one highly secure domain. 

The Future Tech Team are committed to delivering product and services that provide comprehensive insight of current business dynamics, adopting standard methodologies where appropriate; and rapidly developing new specific techniques to sustain our customers’ agility. 

Rulesmatix specializes in implementing business rules solutions using innovative development techniques. Our consultants have extensive experience in the architecture, design, development and implementation of complex business systems using business rules. Our experience and exemplary track record of delivering business-critical systems using business rules using commercial and open source rules engines is a key asset. We have in depth knowledge of commercial engines internals and their APIs which we consistently use to develop reusable templates and numerous utilities around rules repositories reducing the development time and increased productivity. With our extensive hand-on experience, we have successfully mentored clients’ staff primarily focusing on Business Rules “Best Practices” for Business Rules design, development, testing and troubleshooting. Our services include helping select business rules engine, design and development of business rules repositories, creating proof of concept, automating rules development and testing processes, setting up “best practices” and mentoring and reviewing business rules repositories.

Business Rules Community is a non-commercial community for professionals. BRCommunity provides articles, commentary, and a variety of other free resources.

BRCommunity is sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS). BRS established BRCommunity.com, and its flagship on-line publication, the Business Rules Journal, in 2000. The Journal appears there free-of-charge.

BRCommunity.com is much more than simply an on-line publication. With the help of world-renown columnists and world-wide contributors, it is the place to be for business rules and all things related!

BPMTips.com is a source of practical BPM tips for business process analysts and process managers. You can find there actionable tips about process modeling and process management, as well as posts where some of the best experts in BA and BPM share their experiences and recommendations. Author of the blog is Zbigniew Misiak, BPM consultant at the BOC Group and Udemy instructor.

ModernAnalyst.com is the premier online community and publication for business analysts and related professionals such as systems analysts, data analysts, functional designers, product managers, architects, and many more.

With the focus on the practitioner, ModernAnalyst.com features free articles, blogs, live and archived webinars, and many other resources to help the professional business analyst succeed in their career and continue to grow in the knowledge and skills needed for the future.

Join ModernAnalyst.com to stay up to date on the latest trends and information pertinent to your success.

The enterprise tech world is evolving with newer ambitions. While the wings of innovation are spreading to newer skies, the technologists are finding it hard to play catch-up and are making sure they are in tune with the technology juggernaut. CIOCoverage aims to bridge this very gap that exists between the tech-savvy where he rests, in the very heart of it.

Tackle product requirements alongside leaders and visionaries. Get the latest best practices, thought leadership, and news from the world of product and software requirements management.

Business Analyst Times has become the ultimate destination for the ever-growing Business Analyst community. Our team keeps the site consistently updated with in-depth articles, blogs, whitepapers and webinars, ensuring that BA Times is at the forefront of relevant content surrounding all developments regarding business/systems analysis, CBAP Certification, industry events and cutting-edge BA insights. Most importantly, BA Times is committed to the advancement and recognition of the Business Analyst Community.

Provides guidance on business analysis and business change to professionals and beginners. Also a consultancy business helping organizations to understand their root causes of problems, their requirements and how to turn them into solutions.  

We help new, aspiring and seasoned business analyst who want to either start or further their careers. We guide and support them on their personal journeys so that they reach their full potential in the ever-changing business analysis profession. We over twenty-five years of business analysis experience (and passions to match) our blog material will provide you with support and guidance. Check out the website today!

Blackmetric is a niche consultancy specializing in business analysis consultancy and training. Whether you’re looking for a practical, hands-on and tailored virtual training course for your BA team, or remote help when setting up a project, we can help. Check out our website at www.blackmetric.com for more information. Also, be sure to check out our regular courses and free #BACommunity webinars at www.blackmetric.com/events We look forward to seeing you at the conference!