Savvion Process Modeler

Quickly Design, Analyze and Optimize Business Processes

Progress® Savvion Process Modeler puts a high-quality business process designer at the fingertips of your business people, and makes collaboration fast and easy. In minutes, business users can map out how business processes are working today and then run test scenarios to find bottlenecks – all without burdening IT.

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Companies use Savvion Process Modeler to “articulate the way they think.” Whether you are a VP of Customer Service explaining to your team how you want escalations handled, or a business analyst designing, simulating and documenting business processes prior to deployment, Savvion Process Modeler helps you quickly and easily accomplish your objectives and achieve operational responsiveness. Best of all, it is easy to learn – you can be collaborating with your team on process improvements in less than 20 minutes! And you can use the tabular view or drag-n-drop shapes to create business process diagrams.

Business process models created with Savvion Process Modeler seamlessly and transparently interchange with our BPM development environment so that you can support collaborative design between business analysts and IT technologists. The models created by business users serve as the specification for the working application—eliminating any requirements getting “lost in translation” between the business and IT. For even greater control, the resulting processes can be tested and simulated by the analyst prior to deployment.

The Savvion Process Modeler puts a high-quality business process designer at the fingertips of business users. For the first time, everyone in your enterprise can participate in creating scenarios that will improve business processes. Using the Savvion Process Modeler, you can:

Model and Simulate – By creating process designs before implementing them in a production environment, you can reduce costly and time consuming test cycles.
Ensure Compliance – Automatically document processes to maintain and support compliance with new industry and government regulations.
Save Time – Store processes in a central repository for reliable access to best practices and reuse of common process elements—saving you time and eliminating duplicate efforts.
Improve Operational Efficiency – The ability to continually optimize business-critical processes will incrementally improve efficiency. And a built-in expression builder will provide you with an easy way to describe their decision flow logic.

A tight integration with all phases of the process lifecycle, coupled with industry process templates, enables our customers to quickly move from process discovery to production in less than 90 days—returning 200% - 300% ROI.

Savvion Process Modeler is part of the Savvion BusinessManager platform, the first BPM solution to deliver true process lifecycle management. Features include:

Easy-to-use Graphical Interface

Mock up a business process in minutes. There is no complex configuration and no code. Savvion Process Modeler's patent pending Tabular View process definition provides a unique and simple way for business users to define their process. And what’s more, process diagrams are automatically generated from the tabular view. Savvion Process Modeler also provides a graphical desktop design environment that is intuitive and simple to learn. Create a visual representation of your process, as well as generate process-flow diagrams that contain instructions for handling exceptions, sub-processes and events. It supports a new usage scenario called "Project Oriented Processes" that combines the value of Project Portfolio Management and BPM, and you can easily import projects from MS Project and convert them into process models.
Asset Manager for Sharing Ideas

Sharing improvement ideas is fast with Savvion Process Modeler. The Process Modeler is fully integrated with the Savvion Process Asset Manager. Any work you do in the Savvion Process Modeler can be saved to a common location and reused by other people on your team. This “distributed design” concept lends itself well to teams in different locations. With Savvion Process Modeler people in different offices, and those that travel often, can check out business process models, make modifications offline, and check in their own contributions for other team members.
Built-in Simulation System

Savvion Process Modeler has a built-in simulation system that makes it easy to find opportunities to improve business processes. Once you map out how your business processes are working today, you can “run” test scenarios through the system, looking for and isolating bottlenecks. Simulation results are presented in detailed resource forecasts and utilization reports that will help you find solutions.

Wondering whether some new hires could make an impact? Wondering whether sales deals could be routed differently for approval faster? With Savvion Process Modeler’s simulation feature, peoples’ improvement intuitions can be tested before widespread implementation.
Ability to Document the Evolution of Business Processes

During modeling and simulation, the Savvion Process Modeler creates auditable documentation of your business process, including a detailed description of the process design. This is important because your organization may need to significantly revamp existing business processes or put new measures into place to meet compliance. Keeping detailed records of the evolution of your processes will help streamline deployment of compliant IT systems and minimize disruptions.