Business Process Modeler

Design Processes. Simply

ProcessGene's Business Process Modeler has been provisioned in a Web architecture since its inception in 2003, which makes it the most seasoned SaaS-enabled solution in the BPM realm. Our modeler is the only solution that supports a dual modeling interface: tabular and graphical. The main features of the modeler is its usability and simplicity. Users benefit from a simple and familiar MS drawing control look and feel, empowered with ProcessGene's collaboration and modeling automation layers. As pioneers in BPM SaaS provisioning, we have been among the first to deploy Ajax and SOA that have become fundamental enablers of our process modeling offering.

Hierarchical Business Process Modeling
Due to the large number and different granularity levels of Processes, business Process models most commonly use hierarchies in order to breakdown concepts into component parts in a structured manner. Modeling the business processes of an enterprise is an essential part of any IT development or implementation Process. An industry common division is into four or five levels demonstrated by a variety of enterprise software vendors and process standardization organizations. As there is no cross-industry standard of hierarchal structure and terminology of the different levels, the hierarchal nomenclature varies and Process related terms are associated with the various levels. The ProcessGene system uses the term "Category" for the first hierarchal level (e.g. human resource (HR) management or supply chain management (SCM)), "Major Process" for the second level (e.g. recruitment for the Category HR management, or procurement for the Category SCM), "Main Process" for the third level (e.g. vacancy management or requisitions), "Process" for the fourth level (e.g. manage talent pool or select suppliers) and "Activity" for the fifth level (e.g. the flow of activities that are involved in managing a talent pool or selecting suppliers). At the most detailed (fifth) granularity level, a business process is represented as a collection of activities designed to produce a specific output, and it emphasizes how the work is done by an organization by detailing a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, and clearly defined inputs and outputs: in other words, a "structure for action".