Letter from China

What is skemma?

1- A very easy tool for defining, using, monitoring and improving business processes (oriented to small and medium-sized companies).
2- A collectively generated business process directory that anyone can use. It will be categorized by industry (chemical, construction, etc) and company area (Administration, Finance, Customer care, Human Resources, etc). Processes will be rated by users and will show their given popularity.
3- A platform for integrating third party software as a service (saas) applications.


What is a Business Process directory for?
The purpose of Skemma's process directory is to create a categorized and rated repository of business processes. Instead of modeling a process from scratch, companies will look at what other companies in the same industry are doing, import the processes they need and make the required changes. Processes will be rated by the companies that are using them and will also show their popularity (how many companies imported the process). In this way, a set of “preferred” processes will naturally emerge.

Why would anyone share their processes?

1- The service will be cheaper for users that agree to share their processes.
2- When a process is shared, its owner is alerted every time it is improved by someone else allowing to make use of these improvements at anytime.
3- Most organizations' processes are not hard to figure out, and sharing their structures would not pose a problem.