A Complete Solution for Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Optimisation
In today's challenging economic climate, business process improvement and resource optimisation have become an even greater business imperative. Metastorm ProVision® BPA provides a comprehensive solution that allows organisations to discover, model, analyse and optimise their business processes. Metastorm ProVision's ease of use, built in methodologies, integrated user guides, and analysis tools provide rapid time to value. Unlike other products, deep integration into related enterprise architecture capability allows organisations to understand the relationship between their processes and the broader enterprise and business architecture. And paired with Metastorm BPM®, an organisation can execute their process improvement initiatives with great speed, agility and minimal cost
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- Benefit: A comprehensive solution, to address both the simpler and more advanced process analysis needs delivers greater process improvement opportunity and business results.
Metastorm ProVision® BPA combines great ease of use with much more than a simple process discovery and modelling tool. Metastorm ProVision® BPA allows you to easily define the basic elements of a process as well as collaboratively model, analyse and understand the relationships to other key elements, such as business goals, strategies, problems, impacts, organisational participants, and related business and enterprise architecture.
- Benefit: Model more of your processes faster to deliver quicker results from your BPA initiatives.
There is a reason why Metastorm ProVision receives accolades for its usability. Role-based personalisation and "dimensional" views allow users to focus on what is relevant for their specific responsibilities and objectives. Metastorm ProVision heavily utilises conventions that people do not have to learn - they already know. Rich model palettes and galleries ease creation of new models. Search and "where used" tools make finding and reusing objects easy. And at any time, users can access ProGuide, which provides integrated product guidance and project templates.
- Benefit: By leveraging the software and the integrated modelling languages and frameworks of Metastorm ProVision, you can quickly apply your preferred methodology in a standardised and productive manner.
Successful process analysis efforts not only require strong modelling software but also a strong approach or methodology. Metastorm ProVision® supports all the well known process-related methodologies and standards such as Rummler-Brache, BPMN, Six Sigma, along with the process aspects of many well-known industry Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, DoDAF and Zachman. Metastorm ProVision® takes this even further by providing a process oriented framework designed to facilitate consistency and unify the various modelling areas and disciplines. And for organisations that have their own approach, Metastorm ProVision's extensive configurability allows creation of customised methodologies.
- Benefit: Broader and more effective business participation will yield superior process improvement results - larger returns, greater consensus, fewer unintended consequences and lower risks.
Metastorm's Knowledge Exchange repository allows potentially thousands of users at an organisation to collaborate on the definition, analysis and optimisation of their business processes - all from a common repository that provides a common basis of understanding. Web-based access makes participation simple and easy from anywhere in the world. Advanced collaboration features such as granular access control, check-in/check-out and "where used" features facilitate collaboration while preventing potential "collisions" and security/governance issues.
- Benefit: Identify and evaluate the right process changes in order to increase your process improvement success rate.
Before making costly and potentially harmful process changes, simulate possible process impacts and explore organisational benefits. Metastorm ProVision®'s advanced simulator allows you to conduct timing, cost and state analysis on current processes and multiple "To-Be" scenarios. Metastorm ProVision's flexible data interface allows simulations to be run based on inferred/hypothetical data or, better yet, actual data collected by Metastorm ProVision's data discovery capability. A BPM system (such as Metastorm BPM) and many other data sources can also provide empirical data to drive the simulator.
- Benefit: Collect higher quality and higher volumes of process data at lower expense to better target areas for improvement.
One of the biggest barriers to successful process improvement initiatives is knowing which processes are the best candidates for improvement and where they need to be improved. Without a system such as a Metastorm ProVision® Discovery to collect process data, organisations have historically resorted to either making "guestimates" or spending considerable resources manually observing process behaviour. Metastorm ProVision provides a much better choice by allowing organisations to collect actual process data via hand-held devices and use this data to conduct analyses and simulations.
- Benefit: Accelerate and advance your Six Sigma efforts while making it more relevant and understandable to the broader enterprise.
Lean Six Sigma has introduced some of the most sophisticated and far-reaching process excellence efforts that the world has seen. Metastorm ProVision not only delivers a Six Sigma modelling language, but also the advanced reporting and statistical analysis tools that the (Lean) Six Sigma practitioner needs to effectively support their organisational initiatives. All of this can be done within the broader context and understanding of the organisation and its processes.
- Benefit: Broaden the range of technologies that contribute to your process improvement ecosystem and results.
The real power of a BPA tool can only be realised through major synergy with other systems. Metastorm ProVision®'s open CIF (API) interface supports bi-directional integration with virtually any system. Robust, predefined interfaces have been established with a wide range of complementary tools and technology formats including BPEL, XPDL, WSDL, XMI, Visio, MS Project, Excel, Word, and numerous other BPM, workflow, ERP and IT implementation systems. Tight integration to Metastorm ProVision's Enterprise Architecture capability and Metastorm BPM® provide unique support from business strategy to execution.
- Benefit: Achieve unmatched levels of enterprise effectiveness by better aligning business strategy and enterprise assets and capabilities, with business analysis and ground level execution.
Through its integrated EA, BPA, BPM and Integration capabilities, Metastorm Enterprise uniquely provides companies the ability to tie process improvement initiatives directly to the broader business strategy, goals, analysis and implementation architectures.
- Features
- Comprehensive BPA Capability
- Powerful Modelling Made Easy
- Built-In Methodologies & Reference Models
- Broad Collaboration Support
- Advanced Analysis and Simulation
- Process Data Discovery
- Six Sigma Support
- Integration & Synergy With Other Systems
- Integrated EA and BPM
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