Category Archives: The Business Process Company

Happy New (Process) Year

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Happy New Year, and many thanks to all our clients, partners and employees for a fantastic 2011!

Happened at Barium during 2011

  • The Map to App concept is gaining ground, and the number of users on Barium Live! is steadily growing – and Barium as a company has grown by 50 percent for the second year in a row.
  • The app Barium Business Navigator makes processes and applications available in every iPhone.
  • Barium SharePoint Client adds processes to the widely used portal Microsoft SharePoint.
  • The welcome of 23 new process-oriented employees.
  • The move to a larger office, better equipped for inspirational meetings.

Now we are looking forward to another exciting year together!

From Map to App

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Barium’s autumn 2011 marketing campaign is named From Map to App, and communicates how easy it is to convert process maps to executable process applications.

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Barium: From Map To App (magazine ad)Exhibition materialBarium: From Map To App (roll-up)Seminars
The seven BPM seminars from last spring were a huge success. This autumn we are keeping the three venues from last time, as well as adding three new ones. The seminars are still held only within Sweden, but a future expansion is possible – and we have great partners in Benelux and UK/Ireland that have similar events!

Thursday September 29, 3-6 PM: GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Thursday October 6, 3-6 PM: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Thursday October 20, 3-6 PM: LINKÖPING, Sweden
Thursday October 27, 3-6 PM: JÖNKÖPING, Sweden
Thursday November 10, 3-6 PM: MALMÖ, Sweden
Thursday November 17, 3-6 PM: KARLSTAD, Sweden
Thursday November 24, 3-6 PM: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Thursday December 1, 3-6 PM: GÖTEBORG, Sweden

Our Swedish followers can read more about the seminars here.

Welcome to the seminars!
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager

Curious George and Barium

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Apart from a process company, barium is the chemical element no 56 in the periodic table. And just like the elements are parts of something bigger, the Barium Company offers a tool to be a part of your organisation and help you make it even greater.

Not everyone knows what the substance barium is used for, but within some areas of business they are very familiar with it. Health care is one example. The other day one of our clients within the health care sector brought us a page from the book Curious George Goes to the Hospital. It showed George drinking barium! He needs an X-ray, and it turns out that he has eaten a piece from a puzzle … just because it looked so tasty.

Curious George drinking bariumPicture from Curious George Goes to the Hospital
(1966) by Margret & H. A. Rey.

Curious George was open and inquisitive enough to try Barium to make him better – are you?

Be curious!
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.barium.se

NOTE: In Sweden we pronounce barium with an A like in the word car, pronounced (bɑːriːθm). In English the element is called bair-ee-əm, pronounced (bɛəriəm), but since Barium is our name we use the Swedish pronunciation when we go abroad.

Time to introduce myself: Fredrik

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It is finally time to release our new BariumLive! blog and time to present myself among the other contributors.

My name is Fredrik Selander, and I am working within Barium’s sales department. I have been working for Barium for a year now and I will try to share my insight of the BPM and IT market as I have perceived it thus far. My earlier career has seen me working within heavy industry, retail and logistics. I am also involved in local politics. Therefore my ambition is to touch on several areas around Business Improvement and IT from a holistic perspective, but also to touch on specific areas of interest.

Some of the areas I have in mind are listed below:

  • Why do we map processes? (Business)
  • Who should be responsible for a process initiative? (Organisation)
  • Is it possible to catch all business needs in a RFP/specification? (Procurement, Agile Methods)
  • Barium Live! + Google Docs = a cloud couple? (Platform)
  • What is a BPMS? (IT)

I will also try and reflect on ideas and conversations I have had with potential clients. But don’t be afraid, I will not put your names up here!

In Sweden we are generally shutting down our businesses for a couple of weeks
over the summer period, so the blogs will be spontaneous until the beginning of August
where they will resume regularly.

Looking forward to having you all as readers!

Best regards,
Fredrik Selander
Sales Representative
www.barium.se

An office perfect for personal meetings

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Late last year we realised that Barium was growing so fast that we were in desperate need of more space. We already had the perfect location in the centre of Göteborg, and luckily we found a beautiful two-story office space across the street.

The Barium Office at Västra Hamngatan, Göteborg, Sweden

Now we have settled down in our new office, which is twice as large as the old one and has plenty of room for personal meetings, seminars, training courses and, of course, the system developers that are producing our service Barium Live! We are now close to 30 employees passionate about Business Process Management.

The Barium Lounge, where we meet clients and parnters

Jeroen de Groot at Processdagarna 2011

Now, in the summer time, we sometimes take a break in the park across the canal …

The park across the canal from the Barium Office

You are very welcome to visit us in our new office!

Regards,
Josefine Aspenstrand
Marketing Manager
www.barium.se