Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Process Improvement (PI)
Metastorm for Enterprise Architecture provides a complete model of the enterprise. It shows how to combine the four needed perspectives – strategy, business, systems, and technology – into a cohesive EA plan that adapts to your needs over time. The resulting plan includes infrastructure and applications projects, as well as helps with standards, guidelines, and other activities that are needed to reach the desired state for the organization. Metastorm ProVision significantly enhances your ability to plan business and technology investments and decisions.
We know successful companies compete and succeed through the sophistication of their processes. Your processes are the central nervous system of your organization. Every activity performed, every decision made, flows from and through your processes.
Business Process Analysis (BPA) Business Process Management (BPM) is an approach for managing processes from their initial creation through their continuous improvement. BPM tools, techniques and technologies enable organizations to effectively analyze, execute and monitor business processes for continuous improvement. To maximize the benefits of a BPM program, each of these three BPM activities (analysis, execution and monitoring) must be performed at peak efficiency. It provides a unique understanding of the approach and benefits that superior process analysis can provide within a BPM program. Our customers understand that process analysis excellence does not result in a linear input-process-output chain of work activities. Rather, its focus is on the coordination of many parallel work activities within multiple departments that deliver significant improvements in their bottom-line performance. Metastorm and VP Consulting offers a leading BPA tool and expert services that enable you to optimize the benefits of process analysis, thereby maximizing the overall results of your BPM program. Metastorm and iBPMS Process Manager in Advance Mode empowers you to achieve the process analysis excellence demanded in today's BPM programs. And because all of the solutions portfolio work together, process models developed can be easily deployed and executed on the BPM platform – no redrawing, no complex imports, just fast, effective results. As an early leader in BPM solutions and the first Breakaway BPM provider, Metastorm has over 1600 customers in 41 countries that are successfully using the Metastorm BPM™ software. Many of these organizations are now expanding their implementations to include the Breakaway BPM components as iBPMS templates. Whether you are an existing user or you are just getting started, you can take advantage of our BPM capabilities by choosing to address the complete roundtrip process life-cycle right from the start. These more advanced capabilities will ensure that you get the maximum benefit from your BPM initiatives and become a more agile organization.
Improving your processes requires a model of your business. This model must represent the composition of the business and reflect the competitive issues of timeliness, cost and quality. Its components must be continually adjusted and the model re-analyzed to examine the effects of change and determine potential success or failure before implementing change. Whether you're evaluating a service, such as the efficiency of a call center or loan approval process or discovering ways to build a better widget, or a risk process, or a request process you need an organized, documented process-driven approach to succeed. A complete solution for Lean and Six Sigma Since the inception of Six Sigma, black belts traditionally have juggled a number of tools - including disparate diagrams, spreadsheets and charts - to manage and execute their projects. Complex and inefficient, this fragmentation detracts from the focus on critical business issues. And control systems in completed projects often lack the robustness for sustained results. Without an effective means to model, execute and monitor the process improvements, Six Sigma performance levels are seldom attained. We answer the demand for complete Six Sigma project productivity and Lean process management with Metastorm EnterpriseTM - our integrated platform . With this powerful combination you can now realize more immediate and sustainable ROI from your Six Sigma and Lean Projects and then using Metastorm BPM to automate, manage, monitor and control these processes. Requirements Analysis Failure to obtain accurate and complete business requirements has long been the sour note of application development. Lack of communication between the developers and business users leads to more project failures than any other single cause. Our model driven solution for requirements analysis can change that. Our solutions enables business and IT teams to establish consensus on how business processes should work, which business processes are best served through automation, and how technology will support those business processes. It includes detailed business models that eliminate ambiguity and provide a clear, detailed definition of business requirements. The resulting model-based deliverables are a reliable basis for designing an automated solution. Before your organization launches its next package selection, implementation or upgrade, make sure you identify the right requirements. Our solutions will significantly reduce requirement errors and thus improve software quality by converting requirements into action. Strategic Planning
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) The challenge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—and a key to achieving business value—is elevating service enablement beyond technology functions. A SOA must encompass disparate applications and platforms, orchestrating and controlling them in the context of business processes. But from the outset, organizations face the challenge of where to start. What services are going to add immediate value? And how are they going to be used by the most important business functions? Identifying the services that are consumed by the most critical business processes in an organization can be a daunting proposition. That’s why Enterprise Architecture (EA), Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM) together combine as a key component of effective service-orientation. SOA relies on the work of EA, BPA and BPM to define, analyze, and execute resources where SOA has the best effect. The result is an agile enterprise in which business models drive executable business processes powered by a portfolio of services.
Success in today's dynamic business environment requires an organization to create a vision of its future direction, as well as a plan for how to get there. With our solutions and consulting services, companies are planning and pursuing novel ways to release new products, expand existing businesses, and create the markets of tomorrow. It all starts with documenting the Strategic Plan. “If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there,” mused the Cheshire cat to the befuddled Alice in Lewis Carroll's classic “Alice in Wonderland.” Strategic Planning entails first determining where you want to go – then finding a means to get there. Using our solutions can build visual models of goals, opportunities, problems, strategy, organizations, processes and systems that enable you to clearly see and evaluate plans, product information, and competitive intelligence. As a result, your entire enterprise communicates better and gains the results you need to succeed. Failure to obtain accurate and complete business requirements has long been the sour note of application development. Lack of communication between the developers and business users leads to more project failures than any other single cause.
© Copyright 2009 VP Consulting, Lda. All rights reserved. iBPMS and Process Enabled Applications are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VP Consulting Lda. Other product, service and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. © iBPMS 2009 Copyright
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In order to get the most out of your Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives To get the most out of your Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives, you need to address every aspect of the process – including areas that interface with process execution such as content management, collaboration, integration, and business intelligence. You can do this by purchasing multiple solutions and attempt to integrate them yourself – but a more effective approach is to evaluate and choose a complete BPM Suite from a single vendor. The BPM Suite addresses the full roundtrip process life-cycle and provides robust capabilities to meet all of your human-centric and system-centric needs. In addition, Metastorm BPM can be licensed to meet your exact requirements, allowing you to leverage your existing applications where it makes sense – taking advantage of packaged connectors – and to choose the level of sophistication you need to achieve varying levels of process improvement and agility, and ultimately achieve an Enterprise Process Advantage®. There are two levels of solutions within the Metastorm BPM Suite: BPM Essentials – BPM Essentials are critical to getting started with BPM and achieving a fast return on your investment in the form of lower costs, greater efficiency, and better control. Breakaway BPM Components – Breakaway BPM Components deliver capabilities that help you realize the value of expanding BPM across the enterprise and “breakaway” from the mainstream. For organizations that will use process to drive innovation and profitability and emerge as the leaders of the future. Whether you choose to start with the BPM Essentials or to transform your organization with Breakaway BPM Components, iBPMS on Metastorm BPM delivers a fast return on investment and the innovation and knowledge you need for success.
What makes this BPM Platform unique ? Unlike other BPM platforms, the Metastorm BPM was designed around a process-centric architecture. It represents a set of proven functions needed to improve operations across horizontal and vertical business dimensions, including: A focus on BOTH people and system-intensive processes-optimizing what can be handled by systemto-system communication and synchronizing that with human-based decision making where it is needed. • Customization capabilities that support the uniqueness of each company’s set of business processes, and a flexible environment for making near real-time process changes and improvements. • A design environment that allows business users to own their processes—with easy-to-use capabilities for modelling, designing, managing, and changing processes. • A straightforward approach to process execution with unique user actions that minimize the level of effort in designing, automating, and maintaining processes. • Robust integration capabilities that support largescale, high-volume system-based process management, enable native process execution on multiple platforms, and allow you to leverage legacy applications within process flows. •A standards-based technology framework that supports a pragmatic, low cost approach to new process integration and deployment – regardless of platform. Microsoft or UNIX, .NET or Java, new or legacy – Metastorm’s high-performance, scalable, componentized architecture ensures you get the right results for your organization and help you get more business value out of service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives. • Real-time monitoring and reporting at the lowest level of process detail, providing authorized users the insight and ability to track the progress and check the status of an item in a process, resolve exceptions, generate reports and dashboards and most importantly take action – for a point in time or timephased over a span of days, weeks, months, or years.. • Industrial strength simulation and statistical analysis based on actual data about process performance. •
Whether you have human-centric or system-tosystem processes, a Microsoft or Unix infrastructure, low-volume or high-volume transactions, or a combination of these – Metastorm BPM offers options to meet all of your complex process needs. Business Contacts: Telephone 09:00 AM - 18:00 PM Lisbon Time T: +351 21 387 29 22 F: +351 22 600 07 13 Email info@vpconsulting.pt Website www.ibpms.com
© Copyright 2009 VP Consulting, Lda. All rights reserved. iBPMS and Process Enabled Applications are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VP Consulting Lda. Other product, service and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. © iBPMS 2009 Copyright
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