Why Process Modeling Software?

AccuProcess Modeler is a useful, cost-effective yet powerful tool that puts business people in charge. This process modeling software provides important benefits related to Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Modeling (BPM) such as the ones listed below.

Align Operations with Business Strategy

Implementing a business strategy or a new business model requires changes in the operations and in how people perform their work. This can be affected only by operationalizing the business changes to the actual business processes, business rules and decisions that are made on a day to day basis by all the people in the organization.

AccuProcess Modeler facilitates this by helping:

• Link organizational strategy to well-defined business processes.
• Align business execution and operation activity with strategy.
• Implement Business Process Reengineering (BPR) by understanding the existing processes and changing them for improved performance.
• Enable Process Agility, an ability to change and communicate processes quickly to take advantage of new business opportunities or address business challenges.

Communication

One area that distinguishes successful businesses and teams is that they have a very clear idea of what they are supposed to do, how they are supposed to do it and what is the exact role of every team member. Clear communication of the operational processes is critical to facilitate a smooth functioning of a team.

AccuProcess Modeler is a great tool for documenting and communicating the organizations business processes:

• Offers common unified language and methodology for communicating processes and information about processes and decision rules.
• It is ideal for training of new people and rapid knowledge transfer because with a thoroughly documented process any new team member can be very quickly trained on what they have to do in any situation that they may face.
• Minimizes potential danger of loss of staff resulting in loss of business process knowledge.
• It helps business managers communicate their ideas quickly and clearly.
• Jump-starts the organizational process documentation initiative.
• Turns the team's experience and "tribal knowledge" into documented processes.

Control and Consistency

Organizations and companies that succeed are ones that ensure their business processes and rules are well designed and that they are consistently applied the same way every single time. This process control and consistency is key for success in organizations ranging from fast-food chains to hospitals to NASA Space Shuttle operations.

AccuProcess Modeler makes this possible by helping:

• Formalize existing processes which may not be well documented or which have evolved over time into "informal knowledge".
• Execute process in consistent manner because instead of relying on people to remember to do the right thing the documented process can be given to the business users.
• Make better decisions because guesswork is eliminated as business users can have the documented business rules in front of them.
• Handle exceptions faster and better.
• Complete regulatory compliance by ensuring that the documented processes follow the company guidelines and legal regulations.
• Put business people in charge.
• Support for compliance initiatives such as Six Sigma, ISO 9000, and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Operational Efficiencies

In today's business environment, every business and every manager wants to ensure that they are achieving the best possible results with the resources available to them. There is no room for inefficiencies and wastage.

AccuProcess Modeler is a critical tool for managers and analysts to ensure that their processes are optimized and are running like a well-oiled machine:

• Process Simulation allows analysis and understanding of the process flows and helps managers know if there is room for further optimization and efficiencies.
• It helps spot needed improvements and reduce process cycle time.
• Increases productivity of existing resources and staff and so allows the team to do more with less.
• Facilitates risk free experimentation and encourages exchange of process improvement ideas.
• Allows modeling and simulation of process designs before actually implementing them thus minimizing disruptions.
• Encourages a mind-set of continually optimizing business critical processes to incrementally improve operational efficiencies.
• Enables better resource utilization.

Gain Competitive Advantage

All the benefits mentioned above lead to a significant competitive advantage for an organization that has invested the time and effort to document, simulate and improve its business processes. A business that has aligned its operations to its strategy, is agile, that has control over its processes, is running efficiently and has well trained staff is indeed at the top of its game.