ActiveVOS Designer includes plugins
for creating a simulation models that are based on an existing BPEL processes. Simulation models provide business users
the ability to test "what-if" type scenarios to estimate the impact of modifying business process logic
or resource availability.
Business users can add project releated goals,
key performance indicators (KPIs), deliverables, dependencies,
and other information. After defining resources and assigning them to process activities, the process can be simulated
to run for a set duration driven by either generated or actual historical data.
Components
The ActiveVOS Simulation Model
interface includes four main
working areas, called views.
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The Editor
view is the area in which you create and modify diagrams (flow charts),
referred to as models. It includes a Palette
of drawing objects that represent business processes and decision points. Those
objects can include additional data that identify their purpose within the
process.
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The Properties
view is the area where you can add information to enrich the diagram. Some of
the information will not be visible in the diagram; for example, descriptions,
goals, KPIs, etc. Some of the information will be visible in the diagram; for
example, names, gateway exclusivity, etc.
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The Outline
view provides a “tree” view, with icons that represent different types of
elements.
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The Artifacts
view allows you to import and integrate into your model pre-existing elements
from other BPMN-compliant software.
Whether those views appear and how
they are organized is further determined by Perspectives.
Using the information in the
model, ActiveVOS can also simulate
how changes to the business process would affect process bottlenecks, staffing,
productivity rates, or other indicators described by the model.
Benefits
You can continue modeling and
documenting business processes much as you may have in the past, but doing so
within the framework of ActiveVOS provides far-reaching benefits to your
organization. You can import models created in Visio or other tools that can
export as XPDL format. AciveVOS also supports exporting existing BPEL models
into XPDL so they can be imported into other modeling tools you may already use
within your organization.
ActiveVOS provides a completely
standards-based approach to both documenting and implementing business
processes. The simulation model editor supports
creating and editing models using the BPMN 1.2 standard, and models can then be transformed
directly to WS-BPEL 2.0 for execution.
To experience ActiveVOS business
process modeling features, follow the tutorial; Creating a Simulation model from a BPEL artifact.