Business Process Analysis
Agile processes + efficient IT = better business
Business Benefits
Align Business & IT
BPA is the bridge between business and IT. It’s the business modeling space in which business professionals (including business architects and business process analysts) and IT analysts collaborate on business architecture, transformation and improvement, including process analysis and design to support process improvement initiatives.
Business architects use BPA tools to work collaboratively with enterprise, technical, application and information architects. Meanwhile, business process analysts and designers use BPA tools to capture process details. Bring your business and IT teams together by using our BPA solution.
Achieve Business Transparency
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BPA makes it possible to answer key questions like: What’s going on in your company? What does your process landscape look like? How can you improve the alignment of IT with your processes? You can answer these questions not just once but on an ongoing basis.
For most organizations, transparency and process performance management can bring early benefits that can’t be realized by other techniques and approaches. Transparency also leads to an easy implementation of designed business processes with the underlying IT systems, and it makes the implemented IT systems (such as SAP®) transparent. Achieve transparency, and you can achieve other business benefits and your company’s goals!
Increase Process Efficiency
Improve the performance of your processes by analyzing and simulating them to remove bottlenecks, identify and remove waste and duplication, make best use of resources and look for opportunities for automation.
Increase Process Agility
Business agility depends on process agility. Business processes work as an agility layer between corporate strategy and IT when they’re nurtured sufficiently. With Software AG, you’ll have that agility—or flexibility & collaboration layer—to keep your business agile and competitive.
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Reduce Implementation Time
With our BPA solution, you’ll reduce the time it takes to design new processes by re-using existing best practice processes and collaboratively sharing content in a common repository. Tools are easy to use and based on common standards. Communicating via a process portal also helps you achieve faster time to market.
Enhance Quality
BPA is not designing business processes for the sake of describing them. It’s about improving the quality of your processes by employing a rigorous approach to process design, linking processes to strategy, defining and following standards, and employing effective governance.
You’ll improve process quality through a better definition of the process, avoiding system breaks and having better communication within departments and among employees. Last but not least, you’ll have better knowledge of your processes within your company.
BPA also improves the quality of IT systems, especially SAP®, by increasing your knowledge of them, improving system usage and improving the definition of automated workflows. The high quality of the combined design work of business and IT departments using business processes as their common language is the key factor for successful SAP projects. It results for example in higher system quality and fewer change requests during a project.
