Artificial Intelligence. Robotic Process Automation. Blockchain. Microservices. DevOps. Agile. Security. Regulation. Digital Transformation. Mergers and Acquisition. They all have one thing in common:
Organizations are using Business Process Analysis to understand where opportunities lie to improve the efficiency of the organization, and then to communicate new processes to the workforce once new digital transformation initiatives are executed.
System Architect enables your team to do business process analysis using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) in its rich client and have other team members model in BPMN in the same enterprise architecture repository using the web client System Architect XT.
In some industries, documenting processes is mandatory to meet regulations. In all industries, publishing processes to the corporate intranet enables better communication of information and efficiencies in getting work done.
Understand and architect
Use industry-standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 in System Architect or on the web in System Architect XT, to document existing processes or architect new ones. Model processes within the context of enterprise architecture to understand interdependencies amongst organization, data, services, applications, and technologies.
Simulate and analyze
Using the System Architect Simulator add-on, you can:
- Perform discrete-event simulation and animation of BPMN 2.0 and IDEF3 process flow diagrams.
- Predict and highlight bottlenecks and utilization issues.
- Specify gateway decision paths based on probabilities, time in model, event based, object type, attribute, shortest queue, or time in model.
- Specify arrival profile distributions (Beta, Erlang, Gamma, Log Normal, Negative Exponential, Normal, Truncated Normal, Triangle, Uniform, Weibull, Binomial, Poisson, Uniform, or User-Defined).
- Specify resource profiles and shift calendars to accurately portray operations.
- Calculate costs per transaction and per end-to-end process.
- Calculate operational risk values for regulatory requirements.
- Calculate expected failure rates and Six Sigma ratings.
- Automatically optimize the process flows to show best resource utilization.
Run analytics
Analyze business process flow by running pre-built analytics or write your own on the fly in minutes using an analytics wizard. Understand who owns processes, where bottlenecks are, which processes are customer facing versus backend, which processes are key to the business, where inefficiencies lie, and what risk underlying technologies pose. Calculate the cost of processes using activity-based costing and/or total cost of ownership algorithms.
Analyze Salesforce.com, SAP and other ERP Systems
The System Architect ERP add-in enables you to reverse engineer ERP systems to analyze their data model tables, and their related application components and processes. Select important parts of the ERP data model (and its applications and processes) to import into System Architect, where its strong data modeling capabilities enable you to analyze the data model of the ERP system within the scope of the EA. Understand what processes act on what data in standard CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) matrices.
Leverage industry reference patterns
Reuse industry-standard patterns such as the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) processes to jump start your architecture business process analysis.
Harvest processes from BPA tools into the enterprise architecture
Support for BPMN 2.0 interchange enables you model processes in System Architect, or harvest business processes from other point-solution business process tools.
Publish and communicate
Use the System Architect Publisher add-on to build and gather reports to auto-generate sophisticated websites of the enterprise architecture so that you can communicate business processes and their context to everyone in the organization, producing greater efficiencies.