Business Process Analysis (BPA)

Gain Visibility into Process Anomalies

In today's challenging economic climate, continuous business process analysis and improvement is an imperative for every company’s success. Business process owners can no longer rely on IT to address and fix process anomalies, they need best-in-class tools that allow them to design, model, simulate, and optimize business processes to achieve maximum operational efficiency. Progress® Savvion® BPM enables business users and project teams to analyze their processes so that they can improve business processes, rapidly deploy new solutions, and achieve high ROI with low TCO.

The Need for Business Modeling and Analysis

Underlying every business is a set of processes that define how a business operates, how it generates revenue, and how it supports its customers. Unique business processes differentiate companies from their competitors; making efficient business processes a very strategic asset and intellectual property of the company. Business Process Management (BPM) allows you to properly manage and protect your daily processes. Business process analysis will allow you to simulate and analyze business process models before they get pushed into production.

In order to manage and improve business processes, organizations must first capture and articulate them. These processes must be documented in some common, easy-to-use and understandable format and language. Progress® Savvion® Process Modeler, a component of Savvion BPM, enables effective business process modeling and analysis by providing:

• An easy and intuitive interface for technical or non-technical business analysts.
  
  
• Tabular and graphical process definition provides an easy way to create or update business processes.
  
  
• Objective based simulation capabilities for “what-if” analysis so that users can see in real-time what can happen.
  
  
• Ability to produce recommendations and reports from each “what-if” scenario which allows you to identify optimal deployment and execution scenarios.
  
  

Another key element to business process analysis is collaboration. Collaboration in process design and analysis derives process innovation and improvements. To facilitate collaboration, there needs to be a central repository where people can share their ideas and learn from everybody else’s experiences. Progress® Savvion® Process Asset Manager includes common process repository that can be accessed by authorized users remotely or locally; supporting versioning with check-in and check-out capabilities.

In addition to providing products for business process analysis, Progress also has solutions for enterprise integration and a comprehensive Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite that delivers real-time visibility, immediate sense and respond, and continuous process improvement.