Cloud BPM. Process transformation for enterprise leaders

Cloud-native business process management (BPM) can be your competitive advantage for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing business performance. And the key to process transformation, that makes end-to-end automation possible. 

In today’s economic and business space, the difference between market leaders and the competition goes beyond strategy, into the speed and efficiency with which it can be actioned. 

BPM is a cornerstone of operational excellence. It has been for years. But it can also be limited by the very on-premise infrastructure meant to support it.   

Leveraging a cloud-native automation approach for core workflow initiatives empowers a resilient, agile, and intelligent enterprise. It offers fundamentally new possibilities to build and adapt business operations for the future. 

The gravity of cloud, when moving BPM beyond on-premise is best

On-premise BPM solutions provide a robust foundation of control and ownership, and for many core operations, are the perfect fit.  

When primary business drivers become speed-to-market and adaptive scalability, where additional support and hardware requiring time to integrate is needed and both cost and time inefficient, cloud BPM’s operational model is the perfect answer.  

If the need arises to launch a new digital-first product, expand into a new international market, or to handle unpredictable, seasonal demand: the ability to provision, deploy, and scale process automation in days — not months — is your decisive competitive advantage. 

Cloud BPM shines when your infrastructure itself must be as agile as the automation strategy it supports. In this case, Flowable Cloud removes upfront capital expenditures and long procurement cycles, by enabling an operational expense structure and stand-by integration workforce that flexes with your demand.  

For you as a business leader, this can also be the best option when your strategy focuses on powering proactive innovation.

The blueprint of the strongest cloud BPM platform is made to architect secure agility

Flowable Cloud is not an on-premise application retrofitted for a new environment, but an ecosystem designed from the ground up to harness the intrinsic advantages of cloud ability. It’s built on a foundation of microservices, which overcome scalable restraints a monolithic system architecture can pose in-house, and Kubernetes, which acts as an open-source brain to facilitate their automated deployment, scaling, and management. And security is built-in throughout this foundation. 

For the right business use case this technical blueprint translates into strategic capability: 

• Elastic scalability: A microservices architecture allows for precise, automatic scaling of resources. If a new marketing campaign drives a 10X increase in customer onboarding, the platform adapts instantly without manual intervention or performance degradation. Which allows you to confidently capture unexpected or impromptu market opportunities, as an individual service scales under demand. 

• Resilience by design: A geo-redundant, multi-zone architecture ensures your operations are not vulnerable to a single point of failure. This provides guaranteed high availability, backed by a formal service level agreement (SLA), delivering the operational continuity essential for customer trust and revenue protection. 

• Certified enterprise-grade security: We understand that security is paramount, especially for leaders in regulated industries such as banking, insurance, and the public sector. A modern cloud platform must offer security that is both robust and agile. Flowable Cloud is SOC 2® attested and ISO certified, featuring a multi-layered defense system and centralized controls. This gives you the oversight you require, with the agility you need. 

This is the essence of a cloud-native advantage: an architecture that is inherently scalable, resilient, and secure, ready to support your most ambitious goals as well as unforeseen service needs increases. 

Flowable Cloud’s availability is up to 99.5%, and its SLA guarantee provides near-real-time replication, with an RPO of 1 hour, and an RTO of maximum 2 hours; in which in the event of a disruption the resolution, analysis, and understanding of any impact is reached. 

Accelerating the innovation cycle with cloud-powered operations

The ultimate measure of any technology is its ability to accelerate business. A key advantage of a cloud BPM platform is its impact on your team's capacity to innovate — and launch process automation that wasn’t feasible previously. By abstracting away the underlying infrastructure management, your organization can move at a new speed. 

With Flowable Cloud, the platform handles all the complexity of maintenance, including automatic upgrades, and security patching. This liberates your high-value technical teams from routine infrastructure tasks, re-focusing their efforts on designing and deploying the next generation of automated processes that create tangible business value. 

This shift is fundamental to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation. New solutions can be developed and deployed in a fraction of the time, enabling the business to test, learn, and iterate faster. And innovation deployment speed is a direct enabler of operational excellence in the modern era. 

Beyond cloud architecture: Automation expertise on-demand

Flowable Cloud’s value for BPM extends into the operational partnership and cost optimization it creates. Offloading complex development and gaining a strategic ally, further frees up your teams to choose where to focus their time.  

Flowable Cloud is engineered as a comprehensive managed service, to:  

• Embed on-demand expertise. Even the best teams encounter novel challenges. Instead of hiring expensive, specialized contractors for temporary needs, Flowable Cloud includes access to our team of cloud specialists. This acts as a direct extension of your own team, providing implementation support or guidance precisely when and where you need it. 

• Ensure financial predictability. Cloud deployment eliminates budgetary guesswork with transparent pricing models that align with your usage. You can choose between a dedicated cloud for full environmental control, or a secure, multi-tenant shared cloud to maximize cost-efficiency. 

• Build-in sustainability. Corporate responsibility is now a core business metric. Flowable Cloud is hosted on Microsoft Azure's carbon-neutral infrastructure, backed by green energy. This means your push for process automation and operational efficiency simultaneously supports your organization's sustainability goals.   

Flowable embeds its expertise directly into your operations. All maintenance, security patching, and upgrades are handled by us, while our on-demand specialists act as an extension of your team to accelerate projects and optimizations. This frees your top talent to innovate, and makes new automation initiatives achievable on-demand.