PrintThe best Business Process Management platforms provide a suite of capabilities for different users - like modeling, simulation, workflow, forms design and integration. The challenge is to architect this in a unified way, allowing for true collaboration and round-trips of the Process Life Cycle.
The most common approach has been to bolt together separate tools, each with their own proprietary file or data format. But this creates a synchronization problem. No one can be certain that a particular tool has the most up to date design information or process data. Different tools lead to higher costs, fewer iterations - in a nutshell, a return to traditional application development methods.
TeamWorks has a single, unified architecture, based on the Shared Model. The Shared Model is the complete representation of all the data needed to design, use, and improve all an enterprise's business processes. At the core of TeamWorks is a single truth. Instead of multiple, disparate tools, there is only one authoring environment, one portal, and one model of the data.
Advantages of the Shared Model
Our customers have chosen TeamWorks because of the significant architectural advantages of the Shared Model, which include:
- No importing and exporting from varied process tools, dramatically speeding up design
- Referential integrity - users know exactly where a process element is used and how changes to that element will affect other, dependent processes. Shared components in the model are stored in an enterprise-class Process Library with locking, versioning, and check-in/out functions.
- Automatic relation of performance data to the process model - allowing analysts to understand where problems lie, without undue effort or repeatedly swapping tools
- Configuration through data, not code - meaning changes to processes in real-time without re-deploying, no starting or stopping servers, and no database changes as processes are altered.
Key Enabler of the Process Life Cycle
Because there is one, and only one, representation of the model, all communication around a given process is improved. Design is faster, execution is easier, and continuous improvement is made practical, even under real-world conditions.
Work Effectively as a Team
The Shared Model makes TeamWorks the most productive, collaborative, and easy-to-use process design environment. That's because every user sees the same information simultaneously, but reflected in their tools, in their language and viewpoint.
Get the Requirements Right
With TeamWorks, users can execute a process design directly from the Shared Model at any time without compiling, linking, or translation. This ability to Playback any part of a process means that teams can interactively validate requirements, ensuring perfect communication between Business and IT.
Control the Process in Real-Time
TeamWorks enables managers to respond to business events in real time by changing business rules and process thresholds while the process is running. Married with unparalleled process visibility, the Shared Model allows managers to not only see where they are going, but to take proactive action.
True Agility
The Shared Model allows managers to make changes to production processes without any technical delays or business disruption, even to in-flight tasks.
Grasp Problems Quickly
The Shared Model seamlessly unifies the process model and historical, in-flight, and simulation performance data in a single application - the TeamWorks Process Optimizer. The Process Optimizer allows managers to identify process problems and diagnose root causes quickly.
Understand Resolution and Impact
By using historical data to power what-if scenarios, the Shared Model ensures that managers understand how to improve their processes, determine what impact those changes will have on important customers, and create the business case for upgrading.
