Metastorm ProVision® EA

The Visual Language of Business and IT

Despite the many challenges in today's global economy, businesses and government agencies operate in a world of expanding opportunities. A virtual model of theenterprise which includes key elements – people, products, processes, systems and technologies is an intuitive way of seeing and improving the inner workings of an organization in response to these ever-changing opportunities and challenges.

Metastorm ProVision® is an industry leading enterprise modelling software for business and IT. An end-to-end solution for Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis, Metastorm ProVision enables you to understand, realize, innovate and monitor all aspects of your business operations to continually improve performance. Enterprise visibility and the resulting business and IT alignment are the foundation for true enterprise agility.

Key Capabilities of Metastorm ProVision® EA

• Understand and manage your enterprise's business and system knowledge
• Improve your processes with Monte Carlo and discrete event simulators
• Define your strategy, goals, metrics, problems and implementation opportunities
• Perform Six Sigma and “what if” analyses on your business processes
• Quickly analyze the impact of process and system changes on data usage
• Identify and map service operations to business processes
• Generate BPEL from process workflows
• Provide clear definitions of system requirements using UML modelers
• Build systems that truly reflect the business objectives and goals
• Manage your requirements for complex system implementations
• Communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime via a web-server-based repository
• Interface with popular tools (Visio, Rational, ERwin, Microsoft Office and XML)
• Customize your modeling language (Zachman, Rummler-Brache, DoDAF, UML, or create your own).

Key Benefits of Metastorm ProVision® EA

With Metastorm ProVision, you can translate business strategy and operational objectives into successful enterprise change through models that describe enterprise assets and their relationships. This visibility serves as the context for effective Business Process Analysis and future state planning.

• With visibility, an enterprise can arrange how things get done in support of key goals, while exploiting best practices and industry standards.

• With visibility,an enterprise can see the full cascading effects of possible decisions as well as their economic impact on the business.

• With visibility, enterprise can leverage its systems and technology assets by establishing the direct mapping from process activities to implementable service components.

• With visibility, an enterprise has a real opportunity for true alignment of business and technology.