Communicative visual modeling

The most effective way to understand an organization is to break it down into its constituent parts and show how these parts link together to form the whole.

Corporate Modeler's object approach to modeling enables you to do just this. It provides you with a set of logically chosen object types which, when linked together, will represent any business situation in an easy-to-understand manner:

Process
Any business, automated or IT process

Organization
The people and resources who perform a process

Location
Where a process occurs

Data
The information that is read or recorded during a process

Application
The IT applications are used to perform a process

Technology
The hardware and IT infrastructure that are used during a process

User-defined objects
In addition to these standard object types, Corporate Modeler allows you to create user-defined object types to represent anything your modeling initiative requires, from 'critical success factor' through to 'product brand'.

Linking business and IT modeling

Corporate Modeler links together several different modeling techniques so that when a change is implemented, it can be communicated clearly to all types of audience. Both business and IT modeling techniques are linked to enable true collaboration between people of different specialties.

Each technique is connected through the central repository, facilitating the sharing of individual modeling objects (see above) across different views.

Organizational modeling

Form a top-down view of your organization to agree the scope of your improvement initiatives
Define organizational structures to best support your business processes
Identify which business processes are performed by each organizational department (also known as functions or silos)

Business Process Modeling

Visualize, simulate and optimize your 'end-to-end' human and automated business process flows
Eliminate bottlenecks, duplication and redundancy of work
Optimize how processes affect the various departments and suppliers of your organization from initial customer inquiry to final delivery of service
Test the ROI of alternative process redesigns through simulation to arrive at an optimal blueprint
Map the data, applications and IT hardware utilized by each process step

IT architecture modeling

Analyze and improve the use of applications, hardware, networks and data structures that support or automate your business processes
Locate which systems to integrate or replace to maximize return-on-investment
Utilize 'rule-free' modeling to build network diagrams, UML Use Cases, EPC chains or other kinds of model

Data modeling

Create data structures that support your business process flows
Reuse data entities (and their attributes) you have mapped onto process steps in Business Process Modeling
Link directly to Sybase PowerDesigner, Oracle Designer and ERwin to create physical data models or import data designs for process/data analysis

Data flow modeling

Analyze how information is shared across an organization to perform processes
Create a hierarchical set of data flow diagrams (DFDs) to show data flows at every level of operations

Matrix analysis

Analyze the relationships and dependencies between people, process and technology
Predict the full impact of change with certainty
Highlight inefficient use of resources and applications
Map data entities onto process steps using CRUD (create, read, update, delete) matrices