ICT Support for Enterprise Modelling
Tools for Business Process Modelling:
FirstSTEP® Toolset 5 of Interfacing Technologies Corporation
(Upadate August 2003)
The Toolset FirstSTEP Designer 5.0 and
FirstSTEP
Charter 5.0 work together with the Enterprise Process Center(EPC) as
briefly
described below:
- First, the hierarchy of the customers business processes are
mapped and
modelled with one of the intuitive FirstSTEP modelling tools First STEP
Designer or FirstSTEP Charter. One may simply start with FirstSTEP
Charter
operating on top of the familiar MS-Visio environment. Even maps
already
created in Visio can be used.
- The FirstSTEP methodology provides guidance in a quick and easy
way to
set up the customers Process Framework, creates process hierarchies and
links important enterprise information, performance data and objects.
- Next, organizational conformance by setting clear ownership,
goals and
accountability for each process must be ensured.
- With the processes defined, the customer can now deploy the
Enterprise
Process Center (EPC) on the Intranet to make processes, related content
and knowledge available on every desktop in his organisation. The EPC
is
a web enabled knowledge and process management portal designed for
enterprises
looking to become process-centric.
FirstSTEP Designer incorporates all of the enterprise mapping
functionality
(high-level process properties) of FirstSTEP Charter. Fields for these
high-level details are provided in the Process Editor and can be added
to Details reports. Alignment, Structure and Focus brought to
each
of the customers management and employees with well-designed and
explicit
high-level and low-level business processes.
Domains: Application management, availability management, process
creation,
resource availability allocation and planning, performance measures
definition,
process monitoring, job scheduling.
Main Toolset Features:
Exporting to the Enterprise Process Center (EPC) : 'Package As
Feature'
creates a zip file containing all files necessary to upload a Designer
scenario to an EPC.
The Category View page in the Scenario window is now a single view.
All categories created can be assigned to most Designer objects.
Activity Templates now include most activity fields. (Input and
output
materials and resource-based rules have been excluded). Activity
attributes
are copied to activities created from the activity template. During
editing,
attributes can be propagated to all activities of the same type.
Additional New Features of
FS
Designer, a selection (August 2003)
- Can assign a passive resource to an active resource type
- New Scenario Manager opens when opening a scenario from Windows
Explorer
- Can enter two occurrrences with the same probabilities for the
Discrete
Duration of an activity
- Can paste an activity type with same name as an existing activity
type
- Now supports the Euro sign
For more information please visit http://www.interfacing.com
Or the New Representative in Germany: Nemetz Informationsverarbeitung,
http://www.nemetz-it.de
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