BPM-Xchange™ – Solution Overview

BPM-Xchange™ – Solution Overview

Provide leading technologies for continuous process management

www.bpm-xchange.com BPM-XchangeTM Solution Overview

Providing continuous process management

Process management challenges

Use-cases and business opportunities

Enhancing Microsoft® Visio® for process management analysis

Collaboration services using Microsoft® SharePoint®

Reporting with Microsoft® Reporting Services

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5Visio® smart integration into the ARIS™ platform

Visio® supporting SAP® Solution Manager

BPM-Xchange™ products and offerings

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Saving costs and increasing productivity


Situation, standards, market and challenge

Business process management is getting more and more important (compliance/enterprise SOA) Compliance (Sarbanes Oxley Act, Basel II, ISO 9000, ITIL, CMMI…) Enterprise service oriented architecture (enterprise SOA)

Different process methodologies settled / few standards in process modelling BPMN, BPEL, UML2, Zachmann, ARIS, ...

Different tools Gartner Group, June 2007: BPA tool market

Challenge How to setup BPM for a customer with

heterogeneous methodologies and tools Need for linking heterogeneous process worlds Microsoft® Visio® plays an important role

because of Office standard BPM-X as Microsoft® and SAP® partner supports

SAP® and system-integrator consulting


Bridging the gap between “process” worlds

IT Architects

Software Architects

Workflow Specialists

Software Developers

SOA Experts

BusinessConsultants

Business Users

Process Owners

BusinessDeciders

Process Managers

Business Analysts

QualityManagers

ComplianceSpecialists

Business and methodology

requirements

Design and implementation

requirements

EA Architects

BISpecialists

Continuousprocess management

required

ERP Specialists

GRCExperts

BusinessStakeholders


“BPM-Xchange™ offers an inimitable solution to the

EA, BPA and BPM market to enable real tool integration,

to tear down methodology and technology barriers, and

to increase user productivity with overall less TCO and a unique ROI.”

Heinz-Jürgen Scherer

MD BPM-X GmbH


Our solution for continuous process management

Tool integration User integration

Standards are complex and implementations therefore mostly incompatible

Complex software products with bad ROI and low TCO for software licenses, training, user support, maintenance…

The amount of affected user groups within enterprises grows (organisation, business departments, quality management, controllers, resource planning,...)

Users struggle with complex tools

Use process models in your preferred tools

Link different methodologies and technologies for added value

Save license and maintenance costs

Increase usage of process models for better process understanding and commitment

Increase productivity

Improve TCO for support, training,...








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Use-cases for continuous process management

Use-case Solution Benefits and costs savings

Process capturing with Visio®

Use Visio® with BPM-X Designer for full compliance with leading methodologies with more than 190 predefined method types.

Use Microsoft-based Office solution. Reduce TCO for 80% less maintenance and support costs compared to high cost solutions. ROI in one year possible.

Reduce ARISTM

licences and maintenance costs

Keep ARISTM in the central process management, reduce ARISTM

licences and use our fully integrated and compatible Visio® solution instead.

Increase cost effectiveness by a minimum of factor 4 for license and annual maintenance costs. Reduce costs for training and support by 1:8.

Migrate data from old tools into new tools

Use BPM-X converter to protect investments in process repositories.

Automatically convert existing models instead of manual creation. Save 50% to 90% of costs reusing existing models.

SAP® Solution Manager projects

Use the favorite Visio® solution for business users and consultants to build SAP process blueprints.

Using Visio® as a front-end reduces project time and increases productivity. Automatic import of process models has a 50% to 80% cost and time saving.

Process reporting Use Microsoft Reporting Services with full SQL analyzing capabilities.

No costly reporting with BASIC, ABAP or JavaScript. Use web-based solution. Reduce reporting costs by 60%t o 90%.


Example for migration scenario

Starting situation: Company acquisition or merger Different EA and BPA tools Magnitude of flowcharts exists Introduce new solutions, replace old tools

Target solution: Strategic use of tools and process repositories Protected investments in documentations Best practice approach for tools and methodologies

Benefits:

Using existing diagrams saves up to 90% of initial costs

Increase the productivity in reusing models and attributes as a base for new solutions

Overall saved time and reduced project risks

migrate


Example for integration scenarios

Visio® 2007 Office platform Use existing MS Office® desktop Full compatible solution linked to ARIS™ Processes capturing by business owners Process confirmation and understanding

ARIS™ platform: Existing ARIS™ process repository Strict enterprise conventions defined Process documentation and quality to be enhanced

Benefits:

No training for end-users needed, less support efforts reduce TCO up to 90%

Integrate process management into the desktop of process owners

Reduce costs by factor 4 by replacing expensive licenses with Office licenses

Synchronize








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Enhance Visio® to build a leading BPA tool

Visio® advantages Microsoft® Visio® is the killer application for process model capturing Well known by many business users as universal drawing tool Low license costs, no extra training needed Provides high productivity for business users

Visio® weaknesses Missing strict methodology leads to low quality in process models Missing database support for process repositories, using only files Complex integration using Visio® XML files for process exchange No interfaces to other BPM tools and standard methodologies

Enhance Visio® to build a full BPA solution Ensure process conformity using standard methodologies Use smart shapes and connectors to increase productivity Integrate Visio ® into leading BPA tools like ARIS™ or others Link to SOA process repositories of SAP® and Oracle®


Extended Visio® solution with a methodology-plugin

Drag & drop Smart Shapes from the stencil

Fully method-conform stencil

Model Explorerwith object tree

Featuring Visio® as a BPA solution

Language independed support for GUI, model and methodology

standard languages English, German, Japanese

extensible on demand

Model repository with more than 190 predefined model types

Open meta-square model allows for easy definition of new method types

Only extend Visio®, no new solution

Model and Object Explorer for management of object definitions and occurences (model masterdata management)








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Integration of People, Services and Information

Reports for Microsoft Excel, Word, HTML, PDF, …

Team discussion

Modeling and model exchange

Integrated Report ing Services into SharePoint® Portal

BPM-XchangeBPM-Xchange


Microsoft ® SharePoint ® for collaboration modelling

Business users or consultants using Visio® forprocess capturing

Process anddocument portalcollaborationservices and reporting

Process and document repository andreporting services

Process managersusing Visio® orspecific tools likeARIS ™


Visio® process modeling using SharePoint®

Process modelling

Use SharePoint®‘s multiuser capabilities

All process models in a central document repository including version for process integrity

BPM-X extends SharePoint® with open interface to model platforms other than Visio®

Visio® for process capturing and analysing

Method conformity using Visio® with BPM-X Designer plugin ensures valid process model


Microsoft® SharePoint® integration (MOSS or WSS)

SharePoint® support

Bi-directional integration with SharePoint® inbound and outbound adapter into document library

Webservice (SOAP) integration with SharePoint®

Supporting MOSS (Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server) and WSS (Windows SharePoint® Services)

Featuring SharePoint® collaboration services for process management with enhanced document support for searching and versioning

Mapping process models from sources like ARIS™ into Visio®








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Reporting Services for process analyzing

MicrosoftReporting Services

Output to Excel, PDF,HTML, XML, …

BPM-XchangeConverter

Process modeling

Using standard Microsoft® Reporting Services which come with MS SQL 2005 Standard Edition or Express Edition (no MS license fees)

Preconfigured templates for ARIS™, Visio® and SAP® Solution Manager

SQL reporting technology

Out-of-the-box usage

No complex scripts to create reports

Web-based front-end for Internet Explorer

Deploy preconfigured reports easily to the user’s desktop


Design-time report (admin) Run-time report (user)

Pre-configured solution provides fast ROI

Intranet

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Microsoft® Visio® is full integrated into ARIS™ platform

Benefits:

Reduced license and maintenance costs, ROI in one year possible

Increase productivity with less training and more satisfied users, less TCO

ARIS platform:High-end tool for process managers and analysts

Synchronize

Microsoft Visio:Easy business process capturing for business owners and users


Increase productivity and reduced costs

Double users’ and consultants’ productivity

Less training and learning time, quicker project start

Costs for modelling tools reduced

Lightweight office tools instead complex model environments

Wider usage of the models in the field of business users instead of experts only

Enhanced process documentation quality

Participation of more people in the business blueprint phase

Better requirement capturing and process understanding

Interconnectivity with all modelling tools

Reduces costs and tool discussions








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SAP® implementation support with Visio®

SAP Solution Manager:Implementation of the solution and operational solution support

Synchronize

Microsoft Visio:Business process analyzing and scoping the SAP ERP solution

Benefits:

Process modeling “as-is” and SAP “to-be” business blueprint

Reduce project costs with integrated solution


Visio® supporting the SAP® project methodology ASAP

Pain points /demands

Pain points /demands

SAP®

solutionSAP®

solution

Methodology and templates supporting ASAP

ConsolidationConsolidation

UpgradesUpgrades

ImplementationImplementation

OptimizationOptimization

Analysis Design Implement Go-alive

Landscape

Processes

Reference models

Blueprint

Scope solution

Business requirements

Reporting

Configurationsupport

Training materials

Authorizations

Production tests

End-User training

Microsoft Visio ® and Reporting Services with BPM-Xchange™Microsoft Visio ® and Reporting Services with BPM-Xchange™

Analyze and profilingAnalyze and profiling SAP® Solution ManagerSAP® Solution Manager

SAP® use-cases:

Integrated tools:


Cost reduction an benefits

Reduction of licenses fees using Visio® instead of other high-priced tools like ARIS™Savings approximate 75%

Reduce implementation time50% time and costs saved compared to complex tools

Increase in users’ satisfactionVisio® is a user-friendly and well-known product

Reducing overall TCO for training and support

Independency from tool providersUsing Visio® as an industry standard

Helps optimizing profits in overall cost reductionSystem integrators and customers benefit








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BPM-Xchange ™ products and offerings

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Product and solution offerings

Administration Modeling PublishingAnalyzing

Administratormethod design

Visio® Analyzer

Converter

ARIS Filter import

Varioustool plugins

Visio® 2007extension

Visio® 2003extension

Reporting Services

ARIS™ Report templates

SAP® ASAP templates

HTML publisher

Scheduler service

SharePoint® adapter

ARIS™ methodology

SAP® blueprint methodology


Preconfigured in- and outbound adapters

BPM-Xchange™

Reporting Collaboration Publishing Modeling

BPA & EA ERP & SOA


Easy intranet publishing of process models

Web publishing

Easy usage for end-users

Use Microsoft® Internet Explorer® to fully navigate through linked process models

Integrated feedback function using your favorite email client

Fully automated solution using scheduler service for publishing

Process models with dynamic zooming with access to objects and attributes

Low-cost solution compared to high-priced solutions like ARIS™ Publisher

Feedback email


BPM-XchangeTM core technology

Inbound adapter

XMLRFCEDI

Outboundadapter

XMLRFCEDI

Mapping core

Graph-based pattern mapping engine

Symbol, connector and data mapping engine

Application Interface with GUIAPI: “C”, COM, batch, Java, SOAP

MethodologyXML

MethodologyXML

Any input data Any output data

Administrator: maintain methodologies and mappings

Source methoddescribing the input data

Target methoddescribing the output data

Converter GUI orvarious APIs


BPM-X Converter model and data mapping

Tool A models

free form

BPM-X Converter mapping engines

Tool B models

Source methodology

Targetmethodology

Transformationdefined by mapping

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BPM-X mapping engines

Mapping is a one-time configuration and setup

Ready-to-use templates for many tools and methodologies

More than 190 method types preconfigured

Two mapping engines

o Relationship mapping

o Pattern-based transformations relying on graph theory for BPMN

Meta-model independent, open meta² model

Stand-alone or OEM solution


Providing best tools for continuous process management

BPM-X GmbHBerner Str. 1660437 Frankfurt, GermanyPhone: +49-69-34007877-0Email: [email protected]: www.bpm-xchange.com

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