Enterprise Process Center 6 Screenshot Presentation.

Enterprise ProcessCenter 6

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Agenda

Workflow

Interfacing ServicesEnterprise Process Center Design PhilosophyEnterprise Process Center Security

Enterprise Process Center ModelerProcess Management

Organizational ManagementContent Management

Risk Management

Best Practice Standards

Business Rules ManagementMaster Data ManagementService Management

Web Portal

Enterprise Process Center Architecture

Some of our Clients

Business Intelligence / Performance

Interfacing Professional Services

Complex initiatives – kept clear & simple

Built for the Business User Very short learning curve - short training

Simplicity at all levels: SW, Methodology, Modularity

Clarity – “get it at a glance”

Collaborative

Process Framework is the foundation for Integrated Document/Content Management

Integrated Risk Management

Integrated Organizational Performance and Compliance

Powerful, collaborative, communication tool

Bridge Business to IT Business: Process/Organization/Content, Risk/Performance Management

IT: MetaData, App’s/SOA, Execution/WF Rules Management

Enterprise Process Center Design Philosophy

A Modular Approach

Process Management

Organizational Management

Content Management

Risk Management

Business Rule Management

Master Data Management

Service Management

Workflow Engine

Business Intelligence / Performance

Control Management

• Robust, flexible security model to manage different needs.

• Security may be set via individual role, resource, or group.

• Role based security supported.

• Security access by individual or group.

• Security profiles control access to every object in the Enterprise Process Center repository.

• Integration with Active Directory supports automatic authentication of users.

• Security model extends to both the modeler client and the Web Portal.

• Security access (no access, view only, edit.. Etc) can be set on ALL objects at any level.

Enterprise Process Center Security

Enterprise Process Center Modeler Introduction

•The Enterprise Process Center Modeler is designed for business users for ease of use without sacrificing technical detail.

•The modeler is intended for high level managers and process designers to intuitively model processes and all their attributes.

•Our modeler features a highly customizable interface, with movable panes and resizable windows.

Enterprise Process Center Architecture

Enterprise Process Center Modeler: Interface

Users are also able to customize the location placement of all panels to their needs.

In Enterprise Process Center, all modules are designed to function in a similar way, ensuring ease of use across-the-board. Create risks, controls, services, and master data using the same work methods.

Use a high-level overview image to navigate larger organizational charts and processes.

Panels may be minimized to the sidebar to completely maximize workspace. (nice auto-hide functionality available)

•Process management increases the visibility of tasks and helps eliminate redundancies.

•By creating and enriching process maps, your company is given the ability to analyze its operations and information flows from a holistic perspective.

•Intuitive process editing and design allows you to extend company consistency by allowing the same process design to be implemented at multiple points in the organization.

Process Management Overview

Process: Intuitive Modeling

Cleary represented process hierarchies allow you to drill down through the process structure and navigate with ease.

The one-click drag and drop approach to process mapping, documenting and reengineering puts the power of process-driven management in the hands of business owners.

Drill-down through a map. Sub-processes allow for full-scale process modeling, while maintaining a simple top-level view.

Navigate across different processes via inter-process links to easily follow the true flow of work.

Process: Assign Ownership

Ensure ownership of tasks by assigning performers to each activity.

Information can be shown/hidden from the map – users can click information on the map to navigate to more detail

Process: Process Reference

MaintenanceProcess references can be created to represent an existing process for ease of modeling and upkeep. Updating the referenced process will update all other instances.StandardizationBy creating process references, you can reuse the same process structure multiple times, leading to increased standardization and efficiency.

Process: Version Control

Restore previous versions of an object for simple viewing and/or publishing

All objects in Enterprise Process Center include full version control with approval history capabilities and audit trails.

Enterprise Process Center is a collaborative environment with a true client-server relationship, meaning that when content is edited, it is locked until work is complete, ensuring integrity of information by maintaining a single editor per version.

Process: Approval Cycle

Assign approvers via a specific resource or role and allows you to add multiple approvers

When an object is checked-in, the approval cycle is launched, dispatching automatic email notifications to the assigned approvers who must review any changes made and submit their approval before the object is published.

Serial and parallel approval routing methods supported.

1. Parallel:

2. Serial

Parallel routing notifies all approvers simultaneously that they have been selected to approve an Enterprise Process Center object.

Serial routing launches a sequential review process that identifies a list of successive approvers where each approver must approve the object before the next approver in the queue receives an approval request email notification.

Process: Approval Cycle

Process: Rotation

Choose from a variety of different view options: Left to right for most business users. Bottom to Top for IT system developers and architects.

Process: Automatic Views

•The Enterprise Process Center generates multiple different views of the same process content automatically.

•Model your processes and then simply select the desired view to gain a different perspective on process structures.

•These views help visualize information tradeoffs, process touch points, and more, giving your designers a good view on how processes can be improved to avoid silos and bottlenecks.

Process: Automatic Process Views

Enterprise Process Center includes a chart magnification tool that gives you a variable zoom on a specific area of your process maps, making it easy to navigate larger process structures from a birds-eye-view.

Process: Automatic Process Views

Selecting a flatmap view generates a full end-to-end process view.

When in flatmap view, you can determine the number of expansion levels for a top-level view or full drill-down of all sub processes down to the activity level.

Process: Automatic Process Views

Select a swimlane view to see where the process material tradeoffs are being made with the clarity to make effective decisions on how to increase overall process efficiency.

Automatically generate a swimlane view based on role, resource, asset, org. unit, or performer to get a view of where handoffs are being made between process activities.

Process: Automatic Process Views

Switch between the BPMN worldwide process notation standard and our own proprietary FirstSTEP notation for ease of use of business users.

•Content management allows you to store valuable documentation in a secure, central location for easy access by all employees.

• By relating documents to processes, you make company knowledge immediately available to process users.

•With the Enterprise Process Center documents are given a clear purpose, encouraging employees to exploit the knowledge available to them and share their work-related information.

Content Management Overview

Content: Centralize Information

Centrally manage documents such as desk procedures, templates and blank forms. Relate them to processes, business rules and other objects.

The Enterprise Process Center document repository functions in an identical way to Windows Explorer, storing documents in folders that can be launched directly from the Enterprise Process Center – ZERO CHANGE MANAGEMENT.

Open documents without even opening the Enterprise Process Center via Web Folders. Open documents directly from the program you are working in (e.g.. Word, Power Point, etc.) or from MY Network Places. Enterprise Process Center maintains security rights (editor, read-only, or not available for viewing) as well as audit trail and versioning.

Import AND/OR or link to documents and file-folders from your company network into the Enterprise Process Center to quickly build an efficient document management system.

Content: Relating Documents to Processes

Avoid the pitfall of micro-modeling. Maintain a high level of clarity and value by attaching documents to processes as procedures to explain specific details.

Then open the documents directly from the process map by simply clicking on it, or through the related documents pane.

•People, assets, and company branches are the most basic part of a company.

•By mapping organizational units to objects in the Enterprise Process Center, you gain the ability to track all changes that are made to objects within the Enterprise Process Center.

•Assigning ownership delegates tasks, activities and responsibilities.

Organizational Management Overview

Organization: Roles, Resources, Assets

Capture an accurate image of your company hierarchy with ease. Model organizational units to ensure proper ownership and delegation of tasks.

View the organizational chart in any orientation desired by selecting it from a drop-down list.

Choose the number of levels of expansion in your org chart – you control the level of detail displayed.

Organization: Roles, Resources, Assets

Enterprise Process Center has total integration with Active directory, allowing you to synchronize and maintain your resources and other organizational details (e.g.. AD Username & Password) directly from AD.

Roles, Resources and Assets are contained within Organizational Units, for quick access and easy organization.

Organization: Roles

Define roles independently of human resources to maintain consistent process structure and ownership even after employee personnel changes.

Find the uses of each role, resource, and asset to have quick access to the touch points between each process and activity that the resource participates in.

Organization: Resources

Ensure that the proper resources are notified of tasks, modifications, and audits.

Link Resources to Roles to ensure the most efficient process execution.

Organization: Assets

Define company Assets to maintain a library of non-human resources available to your processes. Important for high-level automation and service-based process execution that must call on your computational Assets to do work.

•Standardize and enforce company policy by modeling operations, definitions, and constraints that employees must follow through Business Rules. •Business Rules define and constrain company processes in order to control the behaviour of your company, ensuring that employee activities are aligned with business goals and strategies.

•By connecting business rules to business processes, you create a direct correlation between company policy and business activities.

Business Rule Management Overview

Business Rules: Standardize Paths

Standardize company policy by modeling operational facts, invariants, terms, derivations, and constraints as objects that can be added to further clarify your process maps. Provide Enterprise Process Center users with appropriate decision paths to take when executing their work.

Provide complete history and background information to support each rule that is modeled in the Enterprise Process Center.

For example, a rule may define limits as to the number of products that may be shipped in a single order.

Business Rules: Standardize Paths

Link rules to process activities to define standardized work methods that can be updated globally in a single repository without affecting process structures.

Business Rules: System-Centric

For Rules that can be executed by computer assets, Services can be implemented to remove the need to spend man-hours on automatable tasks.

•Master Data management formalizes the types of data that your company uses in its operations, allowing for consistency to be enforced in how data is represented and used within IT systems.

•By modeling your data as master data entities and attributes, information becomes more open to being shared along your processes by different IT systems.

Master Data Management Overview

Master Data: Entities

Define business Entities as objects that can be represented within the Enterprise Process Center modeler. Entities define the specific object types that are passed along through your processes, allowing for the full integration and reusability of objects.

Entities can define objects as coarse-grained as ‘Customer’, or as fine-grained as specific ‘Order’ types.

Master Data: Attributes

Define Attributes as information types for the purpose of the automatic identification of data fields by your computer assets.

Defining specific object and information types by modeling them as Entities and Attributes gives your company the ability to divide tasks between human and computer resources. Increase company efficiency by allowing your employees to focus on tasks that cannot be automated by IT services.

Master Data: Execution

Relate Attributes to Entities to attach information types to object types. For example, a product order e-form would contain specific information fields that can be identified as attributes of the ‘Order’ entity.

Entities and Attributes provide the missing link between business operations, documentation and execution.

Define the uses of each entity and attribute to view touch points between your data, objects, and process activities.

•Loosely-coupled Services allow for the agile integration of business requirements and IT solutions.

•With service management, your software needs are fulfilled by modular service components that communicate through a routing system.

•With services, business strategies and IT strategies can work in parallel, efficiently mapping business needs to operational resources without the need for wasteful customization.

Service Management Overview

Services: Bridging the Gap

Service management allows the Enterprise Process Center to not only document but also manage the execution of heavily transactional processes by accepting, processing and transmitting data defined by Entities and Attributes.

Link reusable services to specific automatable business rules, or to specific tasks on your process chart to enable the execution of computer-centric processes without the maintenance or intervention of human resources.

Service: Implementation and SOA

Implement Services as web services that can be called from their location in your company network.

Define Entities as Service input and output to ensure the proper integration of your data.

Using services enables the linking of technology to your business processes, driving your company towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for greater efficiency, standardization, and profit.

Using services allows your company to reuse applications and functions along the process structure without hard coding functions, leading to greater agility and flexibility.

•Business enterprise and Risk are synonymous. Understanding and managing risk is an inherent part of the business process.

•Risk management is key for compliance initiatives such as SOX, BASEL II And ISO.

•By looking at risk management in terms of processes, a business can use known risks to its advantage while offsetting the threat they pose with specific controls.

Risk & Control Management Overview

Risk: A Dashboard View

Identify, categorize and assess risks in an independent repository. Define what danger a risk poses to your company and manage appropriate countermeasures to ensure that the risk is mitigated.

Assure quick response and easy identification of risks by prioritizing them according to a standardized risk profile matrix.

Risk: Defining Risks

Define risks according to their impact and likelihood with simple drop-down menus.

For example, a fire risk may have a very high impact, but low likelihood. Based on these two values, the risk priority will be automatically calculated by the Enterprise Process Center.

Risk/Control: Linking Risks Processes

Link Risks to Processes for fast risk assessment, allowing business users to see exactly where risks are encountered and what activities are controls for greater clarity of communication.

Control: A Dashboard View

Manage controls designed to mitigate risks. Schedule audits to test the effectiveness of your controls to help attain compliance under such initiatives as SOX, ISO, and others.

Control: COBIT and COSO

Enterprise Process Center supports the industry-standard COSO and COBIT templates.

Control: Financial Controls

Also capture and manage all financial assertions with ease. All relevant control & risk details can then be extracted into MS excel and interactive dashboard risk matrices.

Risk: Relating Risks and Controls

Quickly assign controls to mitigate risks and define their Impact and Likelihood in mitigating the risk factor.

Business Intelligence Overview

•The Enterprise Process Center has a BI & Performance engine embedded for generating custom visual reports through simple drag-and-drop.

•Schedule periodic reports on any object that is contained within the Enterprise Process Center database.

•Reports are contextual to employee role and their level in the organization. For instance, a manager can get a top level view of entire departments, while a low-level employee will see stats related to his specific job.

•Our Business Intelligence manager collects actual performance statistics through our employee workflow engine, granting real-world performance data.

BI: Cognos ReportsThe Web Portal includes built-in customizable Dashboards & Reports, providing all levels of management and end-users with real time process, risk, and performance detailed views in multiple formats (XML, HTML, PDF, Excel, etc.)

The EPC dashboards allow users to switch between different views of the same data (pie, bar & line charts) on the fly

Workflow Overview

•The Enterprise Process Center has an integrated Workflow Module that allows you to automate both human and system-centric processes in BPMN.

•Workflow is seamlessly integrated, removing the need to import/export processes from the EPC Modeler to the Workflow Module.

•EPC Workflow supports on-the-fly process editing and contains an integrated Business Rules and BAM engine for real-time reporting and analysis.

•EPC Workflow can also generate XPDL & BPEL codes as a means to integrate with 3rd party modeling tools & engines.

•The Workflow Module is an optional feature – users may integrate their existing Workflow engines.

Workflow Portal

Automate selected human and system-centric business processes with an advanced integrated Workflow engine, allowing you to align your process workflow with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Workflow: Execute In BPMN

The EPC models and automates processes using the BPMN standard notation, providing both IT and Business users with a single version which enables true “round-tripping”.

Workflow: Dynamic eForms

EPC Workflow supports dynamic eForms, and contains an intuitive form builder.

Workflow: On-the-Fly Task Automation Editing

EPC Workflow process owners can easily adapt process instances on-the-fly instead of adapting the entire process definition. Edit process instances using intuitive drag-and-drop features.

Workflow: Create Ad Hoc Process Instances

For unique circumstances, process owners may create ad hoc process instances (rewind, skip activities, fast forward, etc.)

Workflow: Business Rules

Business Rules can be defined and referred to by each automated process. This creates rule-defined execution, where rules are handled independently of processes allowing for policies, regulations, and strategies to be changed easily without affecting entire process definitions.

Workflow: Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

EPC Workflow contains an integrated Business Activity Monitoring engine for real-time performance tracking. Create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and associate each with a process to monitory performance results.

Workflow: Integrated HTML Reports

EPC allows users to embed HTML reports in the web portal. Press play to execute the associated process and receive the latest reporting statistics.

Web Portal Overview

•The Enterprise Process Center Web Portal is the primary means for distributing process content to employees.

•Securely access the content of your Enterprise Process Center repository from any location worldwide.

•Distribute the process knowledge that has been created in the Enterprise Process Center modeler.

•Have access to custom dashboards and alerts on a per-user basis.

•Participate in employee discussions, encourage all resources to partake in the processes mapped in the Enterprise Process Center.

Enterprise Process Center Web: MyEPC

The Enterprise Process Center’s employee-specific portal page, ‘MyEPC’ provides users with information on tasks, activities and other objects relevant to their job.

Processes to which a user is assigned as performer are displayed in a prioritized list.

If a user is designated s approver on an object, a list of those objects is displayed for quick access.

Our Cognos BI (Business Intelligence) dashboards are seamlessly integrated into the MyEPC page for easy access to valuable information and custom reports on any object in the Enterprise Process Center.

Enterprise Process Center Web Portal

Easily access a dynamic view of all your Enterprise Process Center objects through any web browser.

The web interface is also fully customizable, all panes can be resized.

Auto-hide the repository tree to maximize workspace without loosing access to the drill-down navigation.

Enterprise Process Center Web Portal

Navigate process charts with a great deal of speed and flexibility. Use the mouse wheel to zoom in, hold ctrl to move around large maps,

Enterprise Process Center Web Portal

Use a full screen mode to work with the web portal, maximizing the amount of landscape for easier user navigation.

Enterprise Process Center Web Portal

Content that is linked to each task (.pdf, .doc, URLs etc.) can be accessed by simply clicking on the hyperlink.

Enterprise Process Center Web Portal

Select from swimlane, flatmap, and design views for superior process assessment and analysis.

Full-Text Search

Enterprise Process Center includes full text search of every object modeled in the database, including the content of documents stored in the Enterprise Process Center repository – save valuable time looking through documents.

All listed objects are hyperlinks, simply click on the desired object to access the content.

Search results will select and highlight the associated task

MyWebsite Portlet

The ‘MyWebsite’ Portlet can be used for embedded website viewing and navigation while remaining within the MyEPC Web Portal, further centralizing employee web activity. Access web applications such as Google search, Webmail, CRM systems, and more.

MySearch Portlet

The EPC’s search capabilities can now be accessed through it’s own MySearch Portlet, increasing the user friendliness of the Web Portal. The portlet can be customized for access via tabs, or it can be viewed alongside other portlets.

User Customized Views

Customize font sizes and the default Zoom factor while viewing processes.

Discussion Forums

Discussion forums on all objects creates a place to make suggest improvements, collaborate, and share valuable information

Customizable Interface

Intuitive Admin settings for branding the web portal to fit your company’s standard look & feel (ability to preview changes before applying them)

•Standardized frameworks are more open, taking advantage of robust existing knowledge and speeding your process improvement initiative.

•Best practice frameworks come already mapped at the process level for fast deployment.

•Benchmarks and KPIs are included in our process libraries, allowing your company to gauge the real results.

Best Practice Solutions

Best Practice: BPMN and BPEL

Enterprise Process Center supports the leading BPMN and BPEL process standards.

– BPMN:• BPMN stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. • BPMN is the most widely accepted standardized graphical notation for drawing

business processes in a workflow.• The first specifications were released in 2004 by the Business Process

Management Initiative, which merged with the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2005.

– BPEL:• BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language.• BPEL is derived from the BPMN notation to produce execution-ready process

outputs that can be automated in workflow tools.• BPEL is one of the most widely supported Process Execution languages,

allowing your processes to be integrated with external systems.

Service Support

Service Delivery

Security Management

Best Practice: ITIL

ITIL ® - Information Technology Infrastructure Library Provides Best Practice IT Service Management Processes.

Enterprise Process Center customers can purchase process libraries based on industry standard best-practice frameworks for quick deployment of process improvement programs.

Operating Processes (1-5)

Management & Support Processes (6-12)

Best Practice: APQC

APQC’s Process Classification FrameworkTM (PCF) Cross-functional business processes intended to allow objective comparison of organizational performance within and among organizations. PCF enables organizations to understand their inner workings from a horizontal process view point rather than a vertical functional viewpoint.

Plan

Source

Make

Deliver

Return

Best Practice: SCOR

SCOR® - Supply-Chain Operations Reference ModelProvides best practice Supply Chain Management Processes

Best Practice: COSO and COBIT

Implement the robust and exhaustive COSO template for greater profitability and transparency in enterprise-wide risk

management.

Enhance IT risk management by implementing the COBIT template to anticipate errors,

implement appropriate redundant systems, and ensure stability.

Explore EPC’s Advanced Modules

Risk Management• Enhance visibility and transparency of risks• Prioritize risks to divide and conquer• Decrease breakdowns and downtime• Implement COSO and COBIT best practice templates

Business Rule Management• Enforce company policy through standardized rule objects• Model operations, definitions, and constraints• Manage change more efficiently• Maintain rules separately from processes

Master Data Management• Align IT strategies with business processes• Maintain consistent end-user systems• Improve the delivery of application services• Respond rapidly to changing technologies• Increase the flexibility of your IT department

Service Management• Align IT strategies with business processes• Maintain consistent end-user systems• Improve the delivery of application services• Respond rapidly to changing technologies• Increase the flexibility of your IT department

Workflow Engine• Streamline the end-to-end execution of business processes• Route information via an electronic messaging backbone• Enforce BPM strategies on all levels of company performance• Effectively utilize IT and human resources.

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