Business Process Modeling Tool Selection

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Business Process Modeling

Commercial Fit

Contract

Investment Protection Program

Three month warranty

Size and Stability

Years in Existance

Market Share

Annual Revenue

Local Presence & Support

Support

Third Level Support in Australia

Second Level Support in Australia

First Level Support in Australia

Presence in Australia

Cultural Fit

Vendor Experience

Experience in Australia

Experience with organisation of similar complexity

Product Cost Fit

Training

Training Material

Soft Copy

Hard Copy

Training cost

Train the Trainer Cost

Implementation and Configuration Cost

Annual maintenance & support

Product Cost

Enterprise License

Site License

Per Processor

Per User

Technical Fit

Operational

System

Security

PKI Integration

Role Based Access Control

User Activity Audit

Process Level Security Locking

LDAP Integration

Novel

Microsoft Active Directory

Messaging

SMTP Integration

Lotus Notes Integration

Microsoft Exchange Integration

Operating System

Apple Mac

Linux

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft 2000

Microsoft 98

Microsoft Vista

Microsoft XP

Network

WAN Bandwith requirements

Centralise / Decentralise Architecture

Scalability

Max User Count

Vertical Scalability

Horizontal Scalability

Repository

Database

DB2

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

Team Support

Model Management

Metadata

Integration

Uni-Directional

Bi-Directional

Third Party

ERWin

System Architect

Rational Rose

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Visio Integration

Microsoft Excell Integration

Microsoft Word Integration

API

SOAP 1.1

Java

COM

Standards Support

BPEL Support

BPMN Support

XPDL Support

XMI Support

Business Fit

Industry Vertical Support

Templates

Data Model Templates

Process Templates

Industry reference models

Value Chain Group VCOR

Design Chain DCOR

Telecomunication [TMF eTOM]

ITIL

SCOR

OpenTravel Alliance

Finance IBM IFW

IBM IAA

Process Improvement

Process Imporovement Consulting support

Impact Analysis

Dependancy Analysis

Traceability Matrix

Change Management Support

Feedback from simulation

Visualise 'AS-IS' and 'To-Be' on the same diagram

Knowladge Capture

Bayesian Network

Social Network Analysis

Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Topic Maps

Usability

Intutive to use

Follows Microsoft UI guidelines

Web Publishing capability

Portal Integration

Windows Based UI

Web based UI

Analyse

Statistical Fit Data Analysis

Simulation

Animation of process simulation

System Analysis

Discrete Event Simulation

Model Integrity Checking

Activity Based Costing support

Critical Path Analysis

support for active optimisations

Dynamic drillable graphics

support for adding both process and business data

Analytic engine in the same UI as modeling

Visualise

Cause and Effect Diagrams

ERD's

Enterprise Architecture Model

Application Architecture Model

Technology Architecture Model

Information Architecture Model

Business Architecture Model

Balanced Scorecard

Business Process Map

Process Information

Avg. Daily Volume

Avg. Cost Per Activity

Avg. Activity Lag Time

Avg. Activity Duration

Activity Unit of Time

Activity Quality

Average Cost

Full Time Equivalent Allocation

Business Rules

Rule Definition

Rule Categorisation

Process Mapping

Rummler-Brache

Sub Process Mapping

Role Based Process Modeling

Activity Modeling

UML Activity Diagram

IDEF0

IDEF3 Process Flow Diagram

Petri Nets

Role Activity Diagram

Collaboration Diagram