The ProcessGene BPM Cloud

Generic reference models are based on the assumption of similarity between enterprises – either cross industrial or within a given sector. The research describes a validated reference metamodel, based on an empirical study of enterprises from various industrial sectors. Drawing on the metamodel, we suggest a methodology and tools for the design and generation of individualized business process models. Further reading:  Avi Wasser, Maya Lincoln, Reuven Karni: ERP Reference Process Models: From Generic to Specific. Business Process Management Workshops 2006: 45-54

One of the main challenges currently facing the world of enterprise information technology in general and ERP/SCM/CRM systems in particular, is visibility into the business of organizations. While the phenomena of devising supporting tools for process execution frameworks is widespread in academia and practice, there have been few attempts to develop methodologies and software tools that support structured analysis of the business process content layer. The incorporation of content into a business process model produces complexity in the sense that it adds semantics and relationships of actual business data.  To confront this complexity, this research suggests a framework and a supporting software tool “ProcessGene Query” for conducting search-queries on business process models.  Further reading: Wasser, A.; Lincoln, M. & Karni, R. ProcessGene Query – a Tool for Querying the Content Layer of Business Process Models Business Process Management 2006 Demo Sessions.

An enterprise process model encompasses a set of business processes implemented or to be implemented in the enterprise. As such, it expresses the requirements of the organization and thus constitutes a compulsory prerequisite for the successful implementation of process-based IT systems such as ERP, SCM and CRM. However, there is a lack of an enabling science to guide the generation of an individualized process model for a particular enterprise. Conceptually, content based enterprise process modeling – itemizing the processes carried out within the enterprise – is based on the assumption of similarity between enterprises that operate within a given industrial sector, so that a generic model should be applicable, with some customization, to all enterprises within that sector. Our approach is based upon the premise that enterprises are characterized by their functionalities, rather than by their end products or technologies. We thus propose a method which enables the functionality of a specific enterprise to be defined; and from this definition a unique enterprise process model can be generated to constitute a statement of the business processes of the enterprise.
Further elaboration: : Avi Wasser, Maya Lincoln, Reuven Karni: Accelerated Enterprise Process Modeling Through a Formalized Functional Typology: Business Process Management 2005: pages- 446-451