News Facts
- Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of Version 6.2 of the Metastorm ProVision enterprise modeling, business architecture, and business process analysis software suite – including updates to Metastorm’s web-based modeling repository.
- Key features of the new release include support for the latest modeling standards, improved ease of use, and extended support for enterprise collaboration, which includes sharing and reuse of models, objects and libraries as well as enablers for Process Centers of Excellence.
- Key enhancements in Metastorm ProVision Version 6.2 include:
- Enterprise Collaboration, Work Reuse & Centers of Excellence – EA and BPA investments can be maximized through sharing, collaboration and reuse on both a local and global scale. Metastorm ProVision’s cross-repository sharing feature facilitates inter-repository sharing and reuse of models, objects and information libraries within a large enterprise. From a shared strategic direction, to common visibility into results, to common terminology to facilitate communication across departments and functions, Metastorm ProVision enables organizations to synchronize collective knowledge to refine business processes and align business goals and processes enterprise-wide.
- Supporting the Latest Modeling Standards and Frameworks – Metastorm ProVision 6.2 includes support for recently updated standards including BPMN 2.0, XPDL 2.1, UML 2.1, and DoDAF 2.0. Metastorm’s ability to support multiple standard modeling notations and frameworks improves usability, interoperability and consistency.
- Enterprise-Level Interoperability – Metastorm continues its commitment to and support of its Common Interchange Format (CIF), which provides an interface to numerous open standards and enables easy integration with third-party software packages. In Metastorm ProVision Version 6.2, CIF has been extended to the Metastorm Knowledge Exchange® repository in the form of a web service to provide organizations with enterprise-level interoperability of Metastorm ProVision models with other systems and applications.
Quotes for Attribution
“Metastorm ProVision serves as a critical platform for planning and rolling out new applications and services at Salt River Project. The insight and visibility that the software provides has been instrumental to our ability to make continuous business process improvements in our customer service processes, and the cross-repository sharing capabilities in the newest release will enable us to extend its value even further within our organization.”
- Susan Smith, manager of Business Process Solutions for Salt River Project
“Our newest release of Metastorm ProVision and its associated Knowledge Exchange repository introduces a range of enhancements that enable collaboration across multiple projects, provide interoperability at the enterprise level, and deliver enhanced capabilities to support enterprise alignment and agility.”
- Greg Carter, executive vice president of product development and CTO of Metastorm.
Related Links
Find out more about Metastorm ProVision.
Download a PDF overview of Metastorm ProVision.
Read a BPA customer success story.
Read an EA customer success story.
Watch video interview with Salt River Project on Business Process Improvement.
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Create a Goal model and drag in sharable goals. In the model, “Financial Goals” has been reused without descendants. “Supply Chain Efficiency” has been dropped on the model, and will be reused as complete with descendants.
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Use the “include descendants” option to “bulk” load the Quality Widgets organization. Notice the read-only and reused glyphs on the objects.
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Create a workflow model; drag in shared organizations and roles as lanes.
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About Metastorm
With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value. For more information and success stories on organizations powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com.
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