Businesses need to have a flow of their working environment. Without this workflow, it will be hard for them to manage and understand how their company works. Business modeling is essential to every business and one business modeling tool stands out with so many features that will entice company to use it.
TIBCO Business Studio is one the TIBCO iProcess Suite software, which has been developed to enhance productivity in every company.
What is TIBCO Business Studio?
TIBCO Business Studio™ is an eclipse-based business modeling tool that lets you model and simulate business processes. It is an easy to use and easy to understand tool since the software follows the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard in modeling business process flow. It is similar to creating a business flow chart. Each element in the flow chart is configured to function as the analyst desires. Before deploying the business model, the analyst has the chance to simulate his created business model. This will test the effectiveness of the process based on the estimated input and cost requirement included as you simulate the process. This will give you a chance to remodel and improve the process you created. You can also easily deploy and manage your business process using this tool. You can save your business process as a XPDL file that can be used by TIBCO iProcess Engine for the execution of the business model.
What are its features?
TIBCO Business Studio™allows you to create business processes in an eclipse-based environment that offers many working perspective such as Modeling and Simulation perspective. It follows the BPMN modeling standards that are understandable to all business analysts. Both the model process and the process documentation can be created in this tool. This tool lets you simplify complex business flow and allows you to integrate new business process into your existing business processes. This tool also supports XPDL format and it can import business processes from various modeling tools.
What is XPDL?
XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is a standardized format proposed by Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) for different business workflow modeling products in order to exchange process workflow information. This is the mostly used format for all business modeling products. This format handles all the business process graphics and transitions. TIBCO Business Studio™ supports this format.
Who should use TIBCO Business Studio?
Business process modeling is normally a job suited for a business analyst. Business analysts make sure that the needs of the client to discover problems and create solutions to their business workflow are met. Then, the business process that has been approved by the business analyst is passed on to the business developers for the implementation of the business process. TIBCO Business Studio™ software makes business analysts and developers increase their productivity because it cuts the boundary of both users in developing and implementing workflow. It lets users coordinate the development process like never before. But this tool is not just for business analyst. This tool can be used by anyone working on modeling and simulating business process because of user friendly environment.
What is BPMN?
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is the standard format in creating business processes workflow. TIBCO Business Studio™ follows this standard because this is easily understood by all business users. This standard lessens the gap between the business analysts and the developers.
What are the benefits of using TIBCO Business Studio?
TIBCO Business Studio™ will increase your working productivity because of the easy-to-use working environment and the superb simulation capabilities that let you test your process efficiency. It is flexible and can easily adapt to changes in business trends because you can easily integrate new application into your existing and already proven business workflow. It minimizes the difficulty of the collaboration among the analysts and the developers. It supports the mostly used standards such as BPMN, UML and XPDL, which make it easy for you to use this tool and these standards lower the development cost.
How to build business process using TIBCO Business Studio?
Building business process model is really easy using Business Studio. You are provided with Modeling Perspective in your working environment. You first create a Project Package that includes a process package. In the process package, you will see there the data field, participants and processes. You can then create new business processes using this package. You use the existing activities, gateways and events in creating your business workflow. These are like objects that can be dragged and dropped from the palettes panel into the design panel and they are configured according to their functions. It is so much easy since BPMN standard is being followed. It is similar to creating a flow chart of your business workflow.
How to simulate a business process?
Simulation is performing an imitation of the real thing in order to gather the information and assumptions you need. Simulating business process execution before deployment using Business Studio is a big advantage for business analysts since you will be making assumptions of events from reality and you will be provided with certain outputs. You will be using these outputs to revise and improve your business processes. In your working environment, you are provided with Simulation Perspective where you can do simulation of your business processes. You can create simulations that will give you results for a number of case completed with the average cost, workers' time utilization and information like how many times a certain activity has been executed. Another feature is that it can display results in graphical notations and you can even compare results from different events you used as inputs.
How to make your process executable?
You can make your process executable by exporting it to a XPDL file and through the use of the TIBCO iProcess Engine. Easy modeling that conforms to a standard protocol and a very helpful simulation capability are the things Business Studio offers. TIBCO Business Studio is the best tool for companies that aim to manage and improve their business workflow.
Author's Box
Cyrus C. is an expert TIBCO Developer at Xmarter,Inc., a highly-experienced TIBCO consulting firm that assists companies worldwide in achieving their goals to integrate business systems and optimize business processes by providing expert solutions for TIBCO-based systems and through rendering quality TIBCO consulting services from top TIBCO consultants. For your TIBCO Consulting needs, send an e-mail to info@xmarter.com or go to www.xmarter.com
