W8 - Process Redesign

Reference:
http://www.igrafx.com/index.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/

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BPR Software 

In lecture 8, The detailed steps and processes of Phase 3 Process Redesign are discussed and they are the followings :

1.Finding out the process scope,
2.Setting up process redesign goals with concrete process performance targets,
3.Defining process boundaries,
4.Identifying key process issues,
5.Collecting useful data, and
6.Business process reengineering software

This article will mainly discuss the

Why BPR Software?

The challenge historically has been how to get IT and business professionals working together on this task. Developers and their business counterparts speak different languages, use different terminologies, and have different knowledge backgrounds. While business uses business-process models, IT uses UML (Unified Modeling Language) models. Integration and transformation between the UML and BPM models guarantee good communications, avoid costs associated with miscommunication, and reduce a project's duration.

Therefore, A tool is needed to narrow the language gap to guarantee successful communication.
And BPR software plays the role.




The following 2 example shows the features of BPR Software.

IBM Business Process Manager - WebSphere Process Server

Both the business process models and UML transformer activity model the business environment, but utilize two different notations and differ in their focus and the elements of relevance.

While the UML model's focus is on software systems, the ingredients and components, BPM process models' foci are the business goals and how these goals can be accomplished. However, both UML models and business process models do share common elements. The WebSphere , working with the UML Transformer, has the capability to address these common elements and transforming them between the two applications.

iGrafx Process for Enterprise Modeling


To help organizations achieve business process excellence,  a powerful process diagramming and enterprise modeling software that addresses the complete range of visual communications is needed.  iGrafx Process could facilitate
the process modeling and simulation functionality.

With the hierarchical process description, communication between processes could be managed and amendment could be flexibly arranged.

Summary

The existence of language gap between IT and business professionals when working together on one task is not a news. In recent years WebSphere Process Server developed by IBM and iGrafx are powerful tools that assist animated simulation, case generation and analysis and graphical representation of process timeline.