Metastorm ProVision for Business Process Analysis (BPA)

Usage

Process Improvement and Quality Initiatives, Six Sigma, ISO Certification, Process/ Workflow Documentation

Think Process First

Processes are the central nervous system of an organization. Every activity performed, every decision made, flows from and through your processes. Metastorm ProVision BPA is a powerful business process modeling tool that enables you to visualize and model your enterprise’s processes, workflows and organizational structures and interactions. Whether you need to improve your business processes for quality initiative like six sigma and ISO certification or just need to document your current operations, Metastorm ProVision BPA will make it fast and easy.

The Metastorm ProVision BPA Advantage Metastorm ProVision BPA enables business users to define, document and improve their business processes and the supporting organizational structures. A high level view of organizational relationships can be documented and analyzed using the business interaction and organization modeler. This will greatly improve your ability to see how your enterprise interacts with customers, suppliers and even competitors and provides a structured framework for identifying the key processes of the enterprise. Using the powerful workflow modeler, organizational hand-offs and potential inefficiencies can then be visually identified and (re)designed to improve your processes’ performance. Different process scenarios may be developed to investigate alternative process solutions. Now you have the ability to implement change quickly, with the confidence that your new business processes will positively impact your business. Metastorm ProVision BPA primary advantages include: understand and model how your organization supports its business process streamline processes to gain organizational efficiencies manage your enterprise's business knowledge share models and objects throughout your organization perform “what if” analysis identify different process scenarios and paths provides the base for more advanced analysis using the AnalyzerPlus option

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

Capabilities

Metastorm ProVision BPA contains modelers for organizational structure and interactions, functional decomps and workflows, along with model interpreters, a web-enabled publishing facility, a spelling/completeness checker and model comparison facility. In addition, Metastorm ProVision works with other popular tools, including Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, BPMI and XML.

Metastorm ProVision BPA main capabilities include:

• powerful user interface which simplifies the whole modeling process
• model enterprise-level cross-functional processes that accurately support your business
• determine “as is” and “to be” workflow models
• process models from Metastorm ProVision BPA can be used for Six Sigma and ISO9000 initiatives
• sophisticated repository for storing and reusing process components
• automatic 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 C4ISR

More comprehensive quantifiable analysis and simulation can be performed using ProVision’s AnalyzerPlus. Additionally, all process models and components created in the Metastorm ProVision BPA edition can be extended into system requirements, and a complete enterprise architecture via the UML Modelers in the Metastorm ProVision for Enterprise Architecture edition.