Intuitive modeling and simulation | Pallas Athena

Business Process Management involves gaining a true understanding of your business processes. Process design is an important phase for achieving this. This goes beyond the documentation of processes; it also helps you determine where performance indicators are linked to processes and identify when organizational aspects emerge. During this phase, you determine whether you would like to work with quality models and which relevant rules and regulations need to be taken into account.

Process Modeling
Increasing numbers of organizations are recognizing the importance of defining their business processes. Many common reasons are:

• Improving business processes
• Maintaining an up-to-date online user guide for administrative organization
• Carrying out Lean and Six Sigma projects
• Designing workflows
• Compliance (SAS, Basel, Sarbanes Oxley, Tabaksblat) analysis and implementation
• Quality and certification
• Changing computer applications and introducing new ones
• Process mining
• Creating interactive work instructions
• Introducing a Document Structure Plan (DSP)
• Performing Service Level Agreement analyses

In BPM|one the step from modeling to automation is less a transition than an integral part of the process. When modeling processes, it is often advisable for those who are already involved to experience how the automated process will actually work. Understanding a model is the first step, but experiencing a model provides even better insights for improving the process.
During the design (or redesign) phase you can actually activate process models and step through the automation. Your process maps are used directly to create a form application. With this approach, your processes are actually implemented in a test environment exactly as you have documented them. This brings your documented processes to life so you can verify whether they are performed by the right people, in the right order and at the right time. This includes automatic letter and e-mail generation, time monitoring, reminders and presentation of the status of a case at any moment in time. Everyone involved experiences exactly how the system will function in a later phase.
 

Simulation
In this phase BPM|one helps you test models, runs calculations of various scenarios and simulate future scenarios. Based on the results, you can see the effect of implementing your ideas and adjust your process designs to achieve even better results. Upon completion of the design phase you can effortlessly proceed to the following phase in the BPM cycle: process execution.

Advantages

• Ease and speed of development.
• High user involvement through simulation and prototyping.
• Support of all common business processes.
• Reusability and expandability of process models.
• Overview of all work processes.
• Excellent communication of the processes through use of the publication facility.
• Clear job descriptions for everyone.
• Faster acceptance of new processes.
• Shorter settling-in period for new employees.
• Meets rules and regulations as well as internal and external standard requirements.
• Risk management.
• Cost savings through an effective and more efficient working method.