End-to-End Enterprise Architecture - Strategy to Business Architecture to Information Architecture
What if you had a clear and comprehensive view of your organisation’s key resources - people, products, processes, systems and technologies? And what if you understood the relationships between these resources, how they related to the goals and strategies of the business and could quickly, and easily, analyse and plan changes to the enterprise? This is what Metastorm ProVision® gives you - a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution for Business Architecture, Information Architecture and Strategic Planning that allows you to effectively plan and make decisions that are more aligned to business objectives, reduce organisational risks and better optimise business resources. Such capability is particularly valuable during challenging economic times when getting the most from your organisational resources is essential.
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- Benefit: Better enterprise understanding, analysis and strategic planning enables decisions that align better with key business goals such as greater agility, greater resource optimisation, and reduced risk.
Metastorm ProVision®'s comprehensive EA support for Business Architecture, Information Architecture and Strategic Planning, allows organisations to holistically model, understand, analyse and plan their business. Metastorm ProVision uniquely pairs strong Business Strategy, Business Architecture and Business Planning capability with strong support for System and Technology Architecture. With Metastorm ProVision® an organisation can have Business Strategy driving Business Architecture driving Information Architecture driving Technology Architecture – and much more.
- Benefit: Model more and faster to deliver quicker and more valuable results from your EA initiatives.
Ease-of-use is a key attribute of Metastorm ProVision®. Discipline/role-based personalisation and "dimensional" views allow users to focus on what is relevant to their specific role and objectives. Metastorm ProVision heavily utilises conventions that people do not have to learn-they already know. Rich model pallets and galleries ease creation of new models. Search and "where used" tools make finding and reusing objects easy. At any time, users can access ProGuide, which provides integrated product guidance and best practices.
- Benefit: Personnel trained in specific methodologies will be able to collaborate effectively with others using different methodologies.
Organisations and sub-organisations will often pursue different modelling methodologies. Metastorm ProVision® can support multiple methodologies right out of the box and, where desired, have them successfully complement each other. For example, Six Sigma Black Belts can peacefully coexist and share models right beside the TOGAF practitioners. It is also very easy to create a new methodology or hybrid of an existing methodology, with just a few clicks of the mouse - and no programming is needed!
- Benefit: Easily leverage the work done by industry and business experts to apply best practices and establish standards.
Many organisations want to use established industry and process specific reference models. Metastorm ProVision® makes this easy by incorporating a broad range of such models, including: Financial Models (including Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Value Chain Reference Model (VRM), Supply Chain Operational Reference Model (SCOR - pictured here), Design and Customer Chain (DCOR and CCOR respectively), and more.
- Benefit: Accelerate and increase the value delivered through your EA efforts through a unified set of frameworks and approach.
Metastorm ProVision goes beyond providing software and pre-integrated methodologies by delivering supporting frameworks and an overarching taxonomy designed to unify the various modelling areas and disciplines, thereby dramatically accelerate time to value. Many of Metastorm's Fortune 500 clients have found this to be an extremely useful and cost saving set of capabilities not found in other EA products.
- Benefit: Broader and more effective business participation will yield superior resultsâ€â€larger returns, greater consensus, fewer unintended consequences and lower risks.
Metastorm Knowledge Exchange repository allows potentially thousands of users at an organisation to collaborate on the definition, analysis and optimisation of their enterprise resources-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: Models and their analytical tools can be used in "what-if" scenarios to enable the business to make accurate and valuable changes based on understood business impact.
Metastorm ProVision's extensive analysis and planning capability allows an organisation to take the rich information captured about the enterprise and make informed decisions. Metastorm ProVision's broad array of reports and analytics addresses key areas such as portfolio management, project management, road mapping, impact and dependency analysis, cost benefit analysis, risk assessment, key performance indicators (KPIs) and stakeholder evaluation.
- Benefit: Maximise the value of your EA efforts by tying into related applications and systems.
The real power of an EA tool can only be realised if it can achieve 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 platforms and tools. Tight integration to Metastorm ProVision's Business Process Analysis capability and Metastorm BPM® provide unique support from business strategy to execution.
- Benefit: Get more from your EA efforts by making them more actionable. Make better process improvement decisions with a broader EA understanding.
Through its integrated EA, BPA and BPM capabilities, Metastorm Enterprise gives companies the ability to drive superior business alignment and resource optimisation by connecting business strategy to the enterprise and business architecture, and then to the rapid analysis and execution of process improvements.
- Features
- Comprehensive EA Capability
- Powerful But Easy Modelling
- Harmonious Support for Multiple Modelling Languages
- Built In Methodologies & Reference Models
- Taxonomy & Framework Accelerators
- Broad Collaboration Capability
- Advanced Reporting & Planning Tools
- Synergy with Other Systems
- Integrated BPA & BPM
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