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EA/Studio Community Edition (zip)

EA/Studio Community Edition is a free business process modeling BPM tool that allows you to build, manage and understand complex business processes, and is based on the BPMN standard. It includes configurable importing capabilities that let you import diagrams from Microsoft Visio and Excel. This version is the first release...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Embarcadero Technologies, EA/Studio Community Edition, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-03-18

Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of business process modeling, Part 2

This paper is the second in a series describing typical modeling errors extracted from hundreds of actual process models created in different tools, including IBM WebSphere Business Modeler. Part 1 discussed anti-patterns that occur when one needs to describe branching and iterative behavior in a business process model. This paper...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2007-04-04

IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal - Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of business process modeling, Part 1

This paper describes typical modeling errors extracted from hundreds of actual process models created in different tools, including WebSphere Business Modeler. These anti-patterns cover six common process modeling scenarios. Part 1 of this paper focuses on two scenarios around the modeling of control flow. The paper discusses anti-patterns that occur...

Tags: Business Process, Developer, Business Process Modeling, IBM WebSphere, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2007-02-28

Essential business process modeling: Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture

BPM standards abound, each with a distinct design and feature set. This paper scavenges these approaches in search of a general BPM application architecture that is conceptually comprehensible and meets real-world requirements. A good architecture uses the technique of divide-and-conquer to reduce a difficult problem to smaller, more manageable parts,...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, Architecture, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2005-08-08

business process modeling in Abstract Logic Tree

Business process models are usually defined in a graphical modeling language. Most business process modeling languages are the analog of flow chart and UML Activity Diagram, which allows unstructured flow structures. Unstructured process models make it difficult to transform it to a structured business process model, such as BPEL4WS. This...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2004-11-19

business process modeling With UML

This paper focuses the reasons and advantages of the application of the Unified Modeling Language UML in organizational architecture modeling. A presentation and description of the methodology to apply business modeling is made, namely, the organization of the modeling in views and the application of those views. A case study...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Case Study, Modeling, Research & Development, UML, Programming Languages, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2004-02-12

business process modeling and Simulation With UML Part I: Defining a UML Transaction Model That Maps to RUP Business Models

Business modeling is an important activity in software development: For software to be useful, it must directly support the business. Once a sound business model is developed, it is possible to explore different business improvement options such as eliminating redundant tasks, and automating repetitive and mundane tasks or those prone...

Tags: RUP, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Business Model, IBM Corp., Business Modeling, UML, Programming Languages, Strategy, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2004-02-09

business process modeling and Simulation With UML - Part II: Executing a UML Transaction Model With Rational Rose

Business modeling is an important activity in software development, and the Rational Unified Process RUP provides a systematic approach to visually representing a business mode. It does not, however, provide a way to derive simulation models that support quantitative comparisons between various improvement options. This paper overviews how to execute...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Corp., Business Modeling, UML, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2004-01-22

BPMN and Business Process Management - An Introduction to the New business process modeling Standard

This paper provides an in-depth introduction to the new BPMN standard, illustrating how it is used to model business processes and web services. The paper also provides greater detail on how BPMN fits within BPM, BPEL?s, BPMS?s, UML and other new industry standards and initiatives described above. BPMN provides a...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, Popkin Software, BPMN, Operational Planning, UML, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It Operations

White papers 2004-01-21

business process modeling (BPM)

This white paper discusses about business process reengineering BPR and business process improvement BPI which have become the ?hot topics? of the 1990s as management faces up to the need to continually reinvent businesses in the context of a changing technological and sociological world. Such initiatives are customer and technology...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Operational Planning, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Business Operations, It Operations

White papers 2003-10-29

Understanding business process modeling & Analysis: The First Step to Achieving Breakthroughs in Productivity Improvements

This paper focuses on Business Process Modeling and Analysis BPMA, which leverages the computational power of modern software to enable organizations to document, model, understand and improve their business processes. BPMA software tools provide the ability to define and build a model of a business process and then use statistical...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Ultimus, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2003-09-01

Knowledge Management Using business process modeling and Workflow Techniques

Enterprise Modeling EM methods are recognised for their value in providing a more organised way to describe a complex, informal domain. A problem with EM is that it does not always provide direct input for software system development. One way of bridging this gap is to provide a formalisation, here...

Tags: Technique, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Knowledge, Domain, Workflow, Knowledge Management, Modeling, FWFL, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations

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Download Savvion's Free business process modeling Software

The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using business process modeling software. To help you get started, Savvion offers its Process Modeler, a component of...

Tags: Business Process, Savvion, Business Process Modeling, Process Modeler, Operational Planning, Business Operations

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