Utility Descriptions and Benefits

Procedure Guide

Used to automatically generate complete procedure documents from the modelling tool (e.g. ARIS or System Architect) into Microsoft Word, using your organisation’s documentation template and standards.

The procedure documents include:

• Process flow representation
• Process descriptions
• Responsibility matrix
• Definition of terms and abbreviations
• Required document control components
  

Access to pertinent information - allows you to generate procedure documents containing the information you require


Accessible format – information is represented in MS Word /PDF


Adherence to company document standards – documents are generated in the templates mandated by your organisation.

Swimlane/ Flow Diagram Generator

Used to automatically generate alternative process flow views that are based on the on the primary model. This provides various business-relevant views, while still maintaining the integrity of the primary model.

These views could include:

• Process swimlane models by responsible or accountable role
• Process swimlane models by organisational unit
• Process swimlane models by location
• Process swimlane models by application use
• Process models depicting document and report flows
• Process models depicting policy and work instruction flows

Provides information specific to business needs – the utility automatically generating relevant swimlane and flow views of your process models that are based on your organisation’s requirements.

HR System Organisational Structure Synchronisation

Used to automatically synchronise the organisational structure contained within the HR database (e.g. SAP HR) into the modelling tool repository.  This ensures that the organisational elements referred to within the repository are valid and do not have to be manually recaptured and kept up to date.
 
These interfaces can be customised to suit your organisation’s technologies where standard tool functionality is unavailable or inadequate.

Maintains current, up to date organisational information within your modelling repository.

Enables traceability for responsibility, accountability and ownership from the information contained within your modelling repository to the organisations and people captured within your HR environment.

Modeller Productivity Utilities

The Modeller Productivity Utilities provide automation to a number of time-consuming modelling activities within the modelling tool (e.g. ARIS or System Architect), for which no standard tool functionality exists.  This set of utilities provides the following functions such as the following:

• Creation of multiple object assignments at once (e.g. the assignment of ARIS FADs to functions)
• Maintaining of a number of model names at once to ensure correctness as per the modelling standards.
• Maintaining of a number of object names at once to ensure correctness as per the modelling standards.
• This utility will save the modellers countless hours of repetitive, time-consuming tasks.

Saves on costs - this utility saves the modellers countless hours of repetitive, time-consuming tasks.

Impact Analysis Database

A utility that extracts the information contained within the modelling tool (e.g. ARIS or System Architect) repository into a data warehouse, which is based on a defined dimensional design.  This provides can provide your business with the following benefits by addressing the limitations of the modelling tool:

• A way with which to extract architecture information into a reporting environment that could be utilised by the entire business
• Enabling the use of conventional reporting and analysis tools to make business decisions based on the EA data
• A way with which to do EA impact analysisA way with which to keep track of the change in architecture over time

Makes information accessible to all – the utility extracts the architecture information into a reporting environment that can be used by the entire business.
Facilitates business decision-making - conventional reporting and analysis tools can be used on the EA data

Enables EA impact analysis
Enables  users to keep track of the change in architecture over time.