Metastorm ProVision for Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Usage

Process Improvement and Quality Initiatives, Six Sigma, ISO Certification, Process/ Workflow Documentation, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (Six Sigma, Zackman), Business Requirements & UML Modeling for Application Development projects.

Know Your Business... Model and Improve your strategy, processes and systems

The award winning Metastorm ProVision EA is an integrated business strategy, process and UML system modeling environment. It helps business and information technology professionals model and evaluate the business processes and system components for their enterprise. With Metastorm ProVision's unique business strategy modelers you define enterprise goals, relationships and organizational structures. Using the powerful workflow modeler, you can design competitive business processes to support the goals and strategies. The UML System Modelers let you further detail your business processes in terms of business objects and automated system functionality, giving you a complete Enterprise Architecture solution. Now you can really know your business.

The Metastorm ProVision AnalyzerPlus option provides more comprehensive analysis and simulation. If you need to import and export your process and system models with other tools such as Visio, Rational Rose, Erwin and Microsoft Project we have the ProVision DataExchange option.

The Metastorm ProVision EA Advantage Metastorm ProVision EA enables business and IT users to define, document and improve their business strategies, business processes and systems. Building better communication between business and IT has become a competitive necessity -- Metastorm ProVision EA provides a sharable repository for modeling both business practices and information technology requirements. The primary advantages include: understand and model all aspects of your organization define yoru enterprise goals, metrics, problems, and implementation opportunities streamline processes to gain organizational efficiencies perform "what if" analysis manage your enterprise's business and system knowledge quickly analyze the impact of process change on data usage manage your requirements for complex system implementations build systems that truly reflect the business objectives and goals build better communication between business and IT organizations provides the base for more advanced simulation and analysis using AnalyzerPlus

Click on the diagram to see the "modellers" available in the ProVision Suite.

Capabilities

Metastorm ProVision EA gives you the power to understand, analyze, and improve your business. It delivers that power by modeling all the fundamental dimensions of your enterprise: who, what, why, where, when, and how. When these enterprise concepts are understood and modeled, they collectively represent the architecture, or framework, for the organization, operation, and decision-making of your enterprise. Metastorm ProVision EA contains more than 17 strategy, process and system modelers, along with model interpreters, a web-enabled publishing facility, a spelling/completeness checker and model comparison facility. ProVision works with other popular tools, including Visio, Rational, ERwin, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project and XML.

The primary capabilities include:

• organized around the fundamental dimensions of your enterprise: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How
• model the vision, goals and strategy of your enterprise
• model enterprise-level cross-functional processes that accurately support your strategy
• easily identify opportunities for process improvement along with supporting costs, benefits and risks
• process models from Metastorm ProVision can be used for Six Sigma and ISO9000 initiatives
• define and integrate process-to-data requirements via UML class and system modeling
• provide a clear definition of system requirements via UML UseCase and storyboard models
• sophisticated repository for storing and reusing process components
• publishing facilities to produce high-quality MS office documentation
• model distribution via the internet
• customizable methodology support for business process improvement, object-oriented and structured methodologies such as Rummler-Brache, LOVEM, IDEF and UML
• import and export data from MS Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio, XML and BPMI formats