Eunomia Process Builder,
 the Business Process
Modeling tool

Process builder detailed description

Process builder short description

The BPM tool that fits your needs!

Why do you need to formalize processes?

Firstly, defining method or business processes enables lasting and homogeneous practices to be used across the organization.

Secondly, it allows the sharing of best practices and lessons learned across the organization, supporting continuous process improvement and achieving lasting process performance. In process performance we include the respect of quality, cost and deadline commitments but also process efficiency.

Thirdly, it allows process analysis: determining where inefficiencies lie, and detecting where processes can be automated.

Fourthly, some standards require that organization processes be defined (for instance ISO 9001, CMMI level 3, Sarbanes–Oxley Act …)

And finally, it allows the consistent integration of process requirements from different standards (ISO, ISO/CEI, AFNOR, ANSI, BSI, DIN, NBN, JSA, UL)

Defining standard processes does not necessarily mean that practices cannot be tailored by users for a specific context (so that practices can be efficient in every context). In fact it depends on the kind of process you model: if you model manufacturing processes, you certainly do not want that process to be tailored, but if you model software Agile processes, tailoring is crucial.
Eunomia Process Builder lets you define tailoring information.

Why do you need business process modeling and process web site generation?

Of course, processes can be defined by a set of Word or PowerPoint documents, but using a business process modeling tool has many advantages.

Perhaps the most important point is that business process modeling provides users with easy access to information: information is structured and presented with a homogeneous look and feel. Processes can be read hierarchically from a high level overview to a high level of detail.

Using visual representation of processes (UML 2.x activity diagrams, commonly called flowchart) improves the readability of the processes and the ease of process definition.

Different process views can be generated for different needs without duplicating the source information.
For instance if you model a Software Development Life Cycle, you can define views according to process area for training purposes (by process area we mean for instance project management, supplier management, configuration management, quality assurance, requirement development and management and software engineering…). But these process area processes are only views of the Software Development Life Cycle process that contains all the activities.
In the case of less coupled processes, you can also design a view that presents the collaboration between the processes.

Process integrity and in a sense process completeness is also ensured. For instance, you will not forget to define the produced work products of a given activity.
Web pages corresponding to different process classes are also generated consistently. For instance if you model an activity A with an out work product W and in which a role R is involved, the A activity web page will of course be generated with the W and R information, but the W work product page will also include activity A as the activity that creates/updates this work product, while the R role web page will also include activity A as an activity in which the role is involved.

The fact that no source information is duplicated and that the business process modeling tool provides a process integrity report facilitates the maintainability of the process repository, resulting in long-term cost-savings for the organization.

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