Improving Process Discovery With RAVEN Cloud

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Improving Process Discovery

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David RuizVice President, Products

January 11, 2011


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Todays Agenda

Company Overview

Overview of Process Discovery

Key Process Modeling Challenges

RAVEN Cloud Demo

Questions & Discussion


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Ravenflow Company Highlights

Solutions for Business Process and Requirements Definition Focused on empowering business analysts and BA teams Improves collaboration between business & IT stakeholders

Patented, Award-Winning Technology Only NLP solution on the market Advanced textual analysis detects process errors and gaps

Key Technology Partnerships Strategic relationships with Microsoft, HP and IBM Compatible with Microsoft Office, Visio and SharePoint

Current and Next Generation Products Help Onboard BAs

Cloud, Office, purpose-built BA application Enables anytime, anywhere process & requirements contribution

Proven ROI Dramatically accelerates creation of process/use case models 3050% lower costs from faster development cycles and less rework


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What is Business Process Discovery?

The business areas in which the process operates

The people who participate or interact with those processes

The key business functions those people perform

The new or existing systems the processes interface with

The business goals or outcomes to be achieved through the process

The activities associated with capturing an organizations existing business

processes and the high-level requirements for modifying, optimizing orotherwise transforming them.

Discovering and understanding your business processes

is the critical first step on the yellow brick road to processimprovement.

-- Clay Richardson, Senior AnalystForrester Research


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The Value of Process Discovery

Understanding how a current process really works

Identifying bottlenecks or constraints in existing processes

Exploring strategies for optimizing processes for improved performance

Detailing integration touchpoints between systems or applications

Standardizing process components for maximum reuse:

Activities Roles

Resources

Business Data

Business Rules

Process discovery enables a flexible process-driven approach to

application requirements definition through capture and analysis of

the business processes in which the application will be used.


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Business Analysts: The Vanguard of Process Discovery

Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Business Architect, Business Consultant,Solutions Consultant, Requirements Engineer, Systems Analyst

Job Titles:

Process

Discovery Process inventory Business glossary Process mapping

BusinessPlanning Goals & objectives Key capabilities

Business priorities

Business/ITCollaboration Social communication Process optimization

Requirements interpretation

RequirementsDefinition Requirements elicitation Process requirements Document publishing

Requirements

Validation Process walkthroughs Requirements reviews Stakeholder feedback

BA Work Activities


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Process Discovery Reality Check

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Microsoft Office continues to rule process discovery although

new, inexpensive collaborative tools are gaining momentum

What tools do you use to document process knowledge and

requirements captured during process discovery?

Base: 99 IT decision-makers

Source: April 2009 Global Lean BPM Online Survey

Microsoft productivity tools

(e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft

Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint)

Enterprise architecture tools

(e.g., IDS Scheer, ProVision, Mega)

Collaborative process discovery tools(e.g., Lombardi Blueprint, Itensil)

Other

According toanalysts fromGartner andForrester, less than20% of BAs areeffective using Visio

to model businessprocesses



Poll Question:

What tool do you use most often to draw or model business processes?



Specific Process Modeling Challenges

Drawing process models from scratch is very tedious and time-intensive

The learning curve for Visio or other drawing tools is too steep

Many business users are not visual thinkers and struggle with diagram

layout

Ensuring consistent style and labeling of process steps is difficult toachieve

Modeling is error-prone, particularly when it comes to ensuring thelogical flow and connectivity is correct



Poll Question:

What are your most significant process modeling challenges?



Poll Question:

How long does it typically take you to create a business process map,use case activity diagram or flowchart?



RAVEN Product Portfolio

RAVENCollaboration Space

RAVEN Client Software

MicrosoftExcel

MicrosoftWord

Sparx EnterpriseArchitect

MetaStormProVision

MicrosoftVisio

IBM RationalSoftware Modeler

IBM RationalRequirements

Composer

RAVENProfessional

RAVENExpress

RAVENWeb Access

RAVENCloud

RAVENLanguage Engine

RAVENVisual Analyzer



Introducing RAVEN Cloud

Launched as open beta program in

May 2010

Over 25,000 users to date

Completely new product

architecture

Built on Windows Azure cloudplatform with rich Silverlight UX

Simple & easy to use

Analyze and visualize processes Examine and re-orient diagrams Show errors, terms & functions Store and organize processes Export/download process diagrams



RAVEN Cloud Functional Highlights

Automatically generate high fidelity business process diagrams from natural

language process descriptions

Analyze process narrative text and highlight logical errors, gaps orambiguities that lead to flawed requirements

Identify actors, functions and business objects referenced in the process toensure consistent terminology

Classify, organize and store business processes in user-defined categories,including ability to define as-isand to-beprocesses

Export RAVEN-generated diagrams and related process data to eitherMicrosoft Visio 2007 or 2010

Export diagrams in either XPDL or XMI format for into other processmodeling or system engineering tools



RAVEN Cloud at a Glance

RAVEN Cloud automatically generates visually stunning, error-freeprocess diagrams from plain English text


http://spdemo.rampgroup.com/ravenweb/



Base price is $25/month per user or $300 per year

10% discount for selecting annual payment plan

Multi-user discounts starting at 10 users

Typical pricing scenarios:

10 Users: $230/month or $2,484/year

25 Users: $550/month or $5,940/year

50 Users: $1,000/month or $10,800/year

RAVEN Cloud Pricing
http://spdemo.rampgroup.com/ravenweb/



The Value of RAVEN Cloud

Nathaniel PalmerEditor-in-Chief

By allowing process models to

be created directly from writtennarratives, RAVEN Cloud

offers a more effective way for

stakeholders and non-technical

subject matter experts to

contribute directly to model

definition and validation,

without also needing to be

Visio experts.

The reality is that many

projects still involve writtenrequirements that include text

descriptions of processes,

which are then drawn by the

analyst in Visio or a BPMS tool.

For BAs without robust process

analysis skills, RAVEN Cloud

can help them to provide work

of value on a process project.

Sandy KemsleyPrincipal Consultant



RAVEN and the Process Lifecycle

Analyze ImplementDiscover

BusinessAnalysts

ProcessAnalysts

ProcessDevelopers

Business Process Lifecycle

Clarify theBusinessRequirements

InteractionDesigners

QATesters

BusinessUsers

OperationsManagers

ProjectManagers

Optimize theBusinessProcesses

Build theBusinessSolution



BusinessAnalysts

ProcessAnalysts

Use CaseAnalysis

ProcessMapping

RequirementsElicitation

ROLE

ACTIVITY

Helping Bridge the Process Modeling Gap

Narrative/TextualDefinition

VisualMod

eling/Diagramming



Learn More

Go to www.ravencloud.com and try RAVEN Cloud for yourself

Check out our How-To Videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RavenCloudNetwork

Participate in our RAVEN Cloud Blog http://blog.ravencloud.com/
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