Group 2 Ajay, Luiz Fernando Mattos Schlindwein, Maxim, Tracy, Sheperd Lab Course Task 1 Functionalities provided by WBI:

: Focused on design, model, simulate and analyze business processes in companies, which are evaluated by cost and revenue, duration etc. in order to achieve better profits 1. Designing business processes in the business designer by using process maps 1.1. Process map elements: Task: generic task, user task, business rules tasks, service task, sub-process, global sub-process (a call to an external process) Gateway: exclusive, parallel Event: start event (unspecified trigger), message start event, end event (no result signal sent), message end event, terminate end event, message send event, message receive event Connector: sequence flow, data flow, association 1.2. Creating a high-level process map 1.3. Creating a detailed process map: 1.3.1. Using specialized tasks, grouping elements in a subprocess, calling another process from within a process (cant be expanded) 1.3.2. Modeling data flow: input data, output data, data storage, moving data from task to task, resolving data type mismatch 1.3.3. Viewing a process in a swim lane layout 1.3.4. Assign values to activities 1.3.5. Validating a process map using the Process Advisor 1.4. Creating scenarios for a process walkthrough (different paths) 1.5. Defining interactions between processes using process collaborations 1.6. Creating business vocabularies for reuse 1.7. Transforming Business Designer documents into Business Modeling projects for more advanced modeling and simulation 2. Documenting business process in Business Modeler projects 2.1. Creating and specifying model elements 2.1.1. Global (reusable) and local process elements 2.1.2. Predefined modeling elements: reports, queries, resource definitions, organization definitions, business measure templates

and classifiers 2.1.3. Activities: 2.1.3.1. Task: generic task, human task, business rule task, receive task 2.1.3.2. Sub-process 2.1.3.3. Loop: while, do while, for 2.1.4. Data elements: business items, notifications, repositories 2.1.5. Resources and roles 2.1.6. Gateway elements: simple decision, multiple-choice decision, merge, fork, join 2.1.7. Event elements: start, end, terminate, notification broadcaster, notification receiver, observer, timer 2.1.8. Compensations: intermediate event, activity, end event 2.1.9. Organizational structure: organization units, categories, locations, structure definitions, structures 2.2. Modeling processes: 2.2.1. Modeling process flow 2.2.2. Modeling data and data flow 2.2.3. Apply swim lane layout by bulk resource definition, individual resource definition, role, classifier, location, organization unit 2.2.4. Color-coding activities: to see clearly which elements are associated with specific values; colored by individual resource definition, bulk resource definition, role, organization unit, location and classifier 2.3. Modeling organizational structure: location, resource, organization units, role, business item 2.4. Validating elements and process flow 2.5. Producing reports, printouts and documentation 3. Improving process performance: 3.1. Create timetables: availability, exemption, zooming 3.2. Simulate processes: create simulation snapshot 3.3. Analyzing models and simulations: 3.3.1. Static analysis: resource, element, process, organization 3.3.2. Dynamic and profile analysis (based on simulation): analyzing aggregated results, analyzing process cases, analyzing process instances, conducting comparison analysis Not provide: 1. Cant model choreography between different participants 2. Cant model conversation between different participants 3. Fewer element categories compared with Signavio: event, gateway, sub-process.

Note: using repository to model data flow

Note: using data map to model data flow Functionalities provided by Signavio (BPMN 2.0): The Signavio Process Editor is a collaborative modeling environment where you edit and discuss with your colleagues 1. Business Process Diagram 1.1. More Specific Elements: Activities: task, collapsed sub-process, event sub-process, collapsed event sub-process, expanded sub-process Gateway: data based exclusive gateway, parallel gateway, event-based gateway, inclusive gateway, complex gateway Swim lanes: pool, lane, collapsed pool, additional participant Start Events: start event, start message event, start error event, start compensation event, start parallel multiple event,

start escalation event, start conditional event, start signal event, start multiple event End Events: end event, end escalation event, end message event, end error event, cancel end event, end compensation event, end signal event, end multiple event, terminate end event Catching Intermediate Events: Intermediate parallel multiple event, Intermediate escalation event, Intermediate message event, Intermediate timer event, Intermediate error event, Intermediate cancel event, Intermediate compensation event, Intermediate conditional event, Intermediate signal event, Intermediate multiple event, Intermediate link event Throwing Intermediate Events: Intermediate escalation event, Intermediate event, Intermediate compensation event, Intermediate message event, Intermediate signal event, Intermediate multiple event, Intermediate link event Data objects: data store, message, data objects Connecting objects: sequence flow, message flow, association (undirected, unidirectional, bidirectional) Artifacts: IT system, group, text annotation 1.2. Editing diagrams 1.3. Creating a process hierarchy: editing sub-process 1.4. Editing sequence flow, adding message flow: convenient in adding data flow, no need to create business item and then connect, but not so logical and detailed as in WBI 1.5. Handling pools and lanes 2. Conversation Diagram 3. Choreography Diagram 4. Term Management (dictionary functionality): a consistent vocabulary in processes, auto-completion functionality 5. Collaboration Support based on internet: discussion functionality, sharing document, granting read access to diagrams, inviting colleagues to comment on diagram and edit a program, version history 6. Export and Publishing: to reuse the diagram data outside of the Signavio Process Editor, web publish, generating PDF documentation, printing individual diagram as PDF, exporting diagrams as XML, PNG or SVG 7. User Management: update the user profile, inviting colleagues to a work space, working with user group, defining access rights Not provide: 1. More practical elements: business items, resource, organizational structure, reports, queries, timetable

roles,

2. Modeling process: no data mapping, no color-coding activities, no business item, timetable etc. 3. Cant model organizational structure 4. Simulation and analysis function are not as powerful as WBI

Task 2 Comparison of the 2 different modeling tools Asd Aspects Accessibility

Users

Interoperability

WBI It has to be installed in every machine it is used. But it does not depend on a internet connection. It is mean to be used by Business and IT personnel, integrating all the people involved in the project. It accepts to export and import a grand variety of different file formats.

Signavio It can be accessed from any place, depending only in an internet connection. It is mean to be used only by Business personnel, because it is based only in BPMN. It has only the possibility to export to XML and it does not have any import support.

Collaboration

Documentation Drawbacks

It supports collaboration by using Web Sphere Business Compass. Available Price, huge size for downloading, not intuitive.

It natively supports collaboration. Not available Weak support of group operations, no possibility to set task type.