Achieve greater business agility through process management !
Is your businesses facing increasing competition, especially on cost and quality? Are your resources wasted on duplicated or needless business activity? Have your business processes become too complex?
To meet these challenges, organizations need to adapt process-centric thinking rather than traditional territorial and functional thinking. You must find ways to better manage your business processes — the key to your success. Making processes visible will provide new information about business operations, enabling your managers to make better and timely business decisions, and possibly innovation.
Utilizing a combination of tools & technologies, proven practices, policies, methodologies and framework, we can improve your agility and operational performance. Thus, aligning Business Processes and IT Systems to your Business Objectives enabling you to have a rapid, effective and positive response to business change.
We support entire process life cycle, from modeling through execution to monitoring:
Business Process Analysis
Business Process Modeling
Business Process Optimization (to display financial and operational impact)
Business Process Orchestration
Business Process Management
Business Rules Discovery & Implementation
Process Integration (link model to data and logic)
ForeThink Business Consulting service encapsulates a process oriented BPM practice or analysis oriented BA practice, as described below.
In a dynamic process oriented landscape, your business processes are valued assets. Realizing that business processes is evolutionary, we provide an engineering approach to process management which delivers more than improved operational performance. We deliver process models, the core of actual business
process to help you understand actual processes and enabling you, by visualization and simulation, to propose improvements.
Our process models are: the events that trigger actions, the sequences of steps, and the business rules used in and between those steps to support decision making and execution flow. We follow proven iterative activity cycle:
Analyze how processes support and are influenced by corporate strategy and goals
Understand organizational interactions and design efficient processes that maximize organizational resources
Analyze process performance to quantify and compare potential for improvement
Manage and integrate processes and related components into a single web-based repository, accessible to the entire organization
Enable round-trip integration (through Common Interface Format (CIF)) between Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) for a complete BPM solution
Design robust interfaces to BPEL, ERP application, XML and Workflow engines
We specialize in the following tools & technologies:
IBM (Websphere Process Server, ESB)
IBM Rational Model Designer
MS .Net Framework (WinFX, BizTalk, Visio)
ILOG/Corticon (for Business Rules)
ARIS Platform
Proforma Provision BPMx
Websphere Business Modeler
Telelogic System Architect
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Do you see a widening gap between the business and technology groups?
Semantic disconnect between business and IT organizations is a major challenge. Our service help us eliminate the gap through proven methodology that can be employed to describe business processes that both communities can readily comprehend and use, resulting in noticeable performance improvements.
Demonstrating out of the box thinking, our consultants translate high-level business requirements into functional specifications for development. Using a richer definition and a clear understanding of business needs we can model and redesign processes, workflows and roles in support of business change; and translate process and workflow requirements into specifications, all within the context of business architecture.
From a technology perspective, we can help:
Apply modeling to understand root causes (the current state)
Workflow modeling
Use Case analysis
Data modeling
Model the vision (future state)
Process modeling
Data modeling
Workflow modeling
Perform Use case analysis (UML) and Object oriented analysis
