Collaborative Process Design

The Living Systems Process Suite provides business and IT users with a comprehensive set of tools and methods to model, test, and validate goal-oriented process models.

Features

Collaborative process modeling

The Living Systems Process Suite lets teams create and improve process models in a collaborative environment that pools the expertise of distributed business and IT professionals during the entire process life cycle.

Meaningful annotation options and capabilities for differential analysis help you understand the status and impact of common work in progress. Powerful merging tools ensure that individual, possibly conflicting contributions find their way into a complete and stable final process.

An integrated online version management gives access to all process resources and provides a full history of change with the possibility to roll-back to a previous version at any time.

Process snippets and patterns

The activity plans that are used to model alternate ways of achieving process goals can be modeled and managed as distinct process snippets or fragments.

Rather than creating a complex, bloated model that tries to cover every eventuality, the Living Systems Process Suite helps break a process down into concise, situation-specific BPMN activity chunks held together by the goals they fulfill.

Process snippets can serve as reusable modeling patterns. They speed up model design and promote modeling consistency when bundled into standard pattern libraries.

Organization modeling

Processes and organization are both essential to commercial success. The Living Systems Process Suite promotes business organization as a primary feature of process models to ensure their optimal synergy.

A user-friendly editor lets you model units, roles, and individuals with their respective rights and obligations and add hierarchies for reliable delegation and escalation. These can then be reused in the process model, for instance to assign BPMN swimlanes.

During process execution, the Process Suite automatically assigns or reassigns tasks to the suitable performer(s). Changes to the organization structure are possible at any time and executing processes adapt seamlessly to a new model.

Iterative process discovery

The Living Systems Process Suite eases process discovery by supporting a build-as-you-go approach. Your process teams can avoid the dreaded "analysis paralysis" and immediately start process design.

As the use cases and process details become more explicit, you can seamlessly and iteratively build the process out, testing and executing on the fly.