Sensus BPM Online

We used sensus prior to COVID-19 but it’s proven to be our saviour during these last few months. Process management has been more important than ever with unexpected lock-downs, temporary loss of staff in quarantine whilst assuring continuity in our research facility. The system has allowed us to share processes with other teams, enabling staff from outside our unit to jump in and assist in our research activities and ensure a continuous flow of high level research activities and no interruptions to the work conducted.

Process management is a time consuming activity and requires the input of the entire team. The software itself is easy to use, but it takes a bit to train your team how to design processes efficiently. Once you’ve invested time into the processes you’ll notice it is certainly worth it, just be prepared to invest time into first before you see the real value.

The software is almost self-explanatory and easily customizable, especially the new and improved version to which we switched very recently. In additon, the team behind the tool is very reachable and truly open to suggestions. They do their very best to find real solutions for customer needs. Even if that means slightly adjusting their software.

It's not BPMN-based. Which is a well-considered choice which has some clear disadvantages. A very minor point of improvement is the number of mouseclicks needed for some very specific actions which I feel could be a bit more automated (e.g. after clicking the 'search' button, the searchfield opens which you have to select first before you can start typing). But again, the latter is just a minor inconvenience.