Business Process Analysis
Agile processes + efficient IT = better business
TIME TO VALUE
Our BPA solution empowers your project teams to ramp up, roll out and reach your goals faster. The solution goes far beyond products to give you not only the technology—but also the methodologies to jump start your initiative, no matter how large or small. You get analyst-recognized products along with the knowledge and best practices that have been utilized by our consulting teams for many years. Enhance the solution even more by adding Industry.PerformanceREADY best-practice processes, content and frameworks to expedite your industry-specific goals.
PRIME METHODOLOGIES
Starting an important initiative may feel like a daunting task unless you have done it many times before. That is exactly the benefit of our Prime methodologies. You benefit from the best practices and methodologies time-tested by your peers in thousands of similar initiatives.
Prime (Process Improvement Methodology) is a process-driven methodology for implementing best practice solutions. Based on long-term consulting experience, industry expertise and Business Process Excellence best practices, Prime consists of an implementation and deployment process for the entire business solution and project life cycle. An inventory of assets, including best practices, guidelines, tools and templates, enables you to execute detailed project steps and generate predefined deliverables.
Prime for BPA establishes enterprise transformation capabilities through governance, as-is analysis, review of process intelligence input, to-be scenario planning and change management. Accelerate your SAP® implementation using a comprehensive and detailed methodology and an Industry.PerformanceREADY content package.
Learn more about Prime for BPA in this fact sheet.
Optional Consulting Services
Transformation: Align processes, organizational structures and IT systems according to the current and future market requirements and your business model
Process performance analysis: Define a process-oriented Key Performance Indicator (KPI) framework and compare to-be and as-is states
Process maturity assessment: Evaluate maturity concerning process strategy, process-oriented organizational structures, process implementation, process controlling and the accompanying continuous process improvement process
Process baseline capturing: Analyze and document as-is corporate process landscape based on value-added chain diagrams and event-driven process chains
Change management: Effectively prepare your organization for the successful acceptance of new processes, organization, objectives or even cultural change
Prime for Process-Driven SAP Management supports you throughout the entire SAP life cycle, from strategy and analysis, through blueprinting to configuration, testing, training and roll out. Business processes are documented using ARIS for SAP and analyzed within the context of the SAP system environment. Prime for Process-Driven SAP Management is a comprehensive, process-centric approach to SAP initiatives. You can achieve faster time-to-value with the best ROI by also using Industry.PerformanceREADY templates.
Learn about Prime for Process-Driven SAP® in this fact sheet.
Optional Consulting Services
SAP ALM strategy: Develop a strategy that will incorporate Software AG’s process-driven SAP approach and the various technologies that form part of SAP’s ALM tools
Process-driven testing concept: Define testing concept using ARIS for SAP – Test Designer and SAP Solution Manager
SAP ROI: Understand your requirements and calculate ROI using Industry.PerformanceREADY
SAP redocumentation: Technical redocumentation of your SAP system using the Reverse Business Engineer (RBE) and matching against Industry.PerformanceREADY reference processes
PDSAP readiness check: Analyze the readiness of your environment for process-driven SAP
EHP process impact check: Check impact check of using SAP® Solution Manager
ChaRM automation concept: Establish, integrate and automate change request management workflow between ARIS and SAP® Solution Manager
ARIS and SAP® Solution Manager synchronization: Integrate existing processes in ARIS into SAP® Solution Manager to re-use content throughout the ALM
INDUSTRY.PERFORMANCE READY
Build your solution faster and at a less cost with optional Industry.PerformanceREADY. These ready-to-use best-practice processes and frameworks—based on 20+ years of industry experience—enable you to get value faster from your solution.
Predesigned processes and architectures: Industry.PerformanceREADY ships with an industry reference model in ARIS based on best practices for specific industry and cross-industry processes, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), human resources, finance and real estate. Reference models are in many languages and cover more than 30 industries.
Preconfigured SAP® systems: Reduce set-up time and costs with preconfigured industry and country-specific SAP software. Based on proven best practices, this preconfigured software helps assure implementation success—faster. Leverage insights derived from our extensive experience across many projects. The SAP system mirrors the best practice models in ARIS. Learn more.
Preconfigured governance solutions: Constantly monitor and optimize business processes after launch with governance processes that come ready to use with Industry.PerformanceREADY. Adapt processes easily to new business requirements by using ARIS Process Governance.
Best-practice KPIs: Predefined KPIs and process monitoring parameters allow you to focus on delivering real and measurable business value for each project. Industry.PerformanceREADY ships with 1,500 KPIs from all process areas. Solution-specific ROI calculators identify time-to-value before a project starts. Benchmark data is available from our partner, APQC.
Predesigned data objects and forms: Streamline your Master Data Management (MDM) projects with Industry.PerformanceREADY that ships with a full range of data objects. Predefined forms help reduce time and effort in scoping and implementation.
Predesigned mobile scenarios: The holistic process view of Industry.PerformanceREADY makes it easy to identify processes for mobile users. Industry.PerformanceREADY ships with best-practice examples for processes supported by mobile devices. Predefined ARIS conventions reduce the effort to start a mobility project.
Predesigned risk catalogs: Enterprises everywhere are under pressure to meet internal and external legal requirements and standards while efficiently managing risks. Reduce risks faster by using predesigned risk catalogs—for example, a GxP catalog for the pharmaceutical industry.
Preconfigured document generators: Automatically generate blueprint documents, including those for each process area. These documents contain more than just process models and text. The documentation report, for example, also extracts RICEF information, links to related documentation, affected roles and SAP transactions on a process-step level. Leverage this report to generate any kind of documentation based in ARIS. A customizable clipping report fully automates documenting your SAP system and increases documentation quality. Documentation can be generated anytime and for specific timeframes. Learn more.
Preconfigured project-tracking cockpit: Track modeling and implementation with an ARIS MashZone-based cockpit. Use dashboards to track, for example, whether a process was designed or approved by business or IT. Visualize implementation progress—see, for example, if processes were implemented, tested or if training is complete.
