Basic concepts
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Basic Concepts
Introduction
Firms and organizations face every day with new requirements from customers, stakeholders, markets, employees, and society all together. Today successful organizations simply differ from the companies that just survive, by constantly searching for new and better ways of working and by reinventing and transforming their processes periodically.
As a response to this challenge, BizAgi offers organizations a complete platform for process automation designed to support the corporate transformation. BizAgi reduces the time to market of new ideas and business strategies. BizAgi also facilitates a continuous improvement of processes.
Here we will show you the features that make our BPM solution BizAgi the only solution that will allow you and your organization to model, automate, execute, and improve your business processes using a graphic background, with the least amount of programming, allowing you to accomplish productivity, efficiency, and a profitable growth which will be sustainable in the long run.
How does BizAgi work?
BizAgi's BPM concept is about generating automatically a web application, which is based and activated by a process diagram without requiring any programming. In other words, for BizAgi “the process is the application”. In order to achieve it, our BizAgi BPM Suite handles the complete life cycle of a business process: Model, Automate, Execute, and Improve. Each of these phases is managed by different components, which allow, by using a graphic and dynamic environment, the building of a process-based solution. The following figure explains the steps to build a solution in BizAgi.
Model
The first step to create BizAgi solutions is to determine the processes. To do this, our BizAgi BPM Suite has the BizAgi Process Modeler. This component is an application that your going to be able to download for free from the internet and use it in your own computer. The BizAgi Process Modeler will allow you to diagram and document your processes in an agile and simple way. It will also present the business processes using a global accepted standard, which is better known as BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation).
Automate
After designing the process, the next step when building a BizAgi solution is to automate. To automate, is to convert all the process activities into a technological application. BizAgi Studio is the tool used to automate the processes that were defined in the BizAgi Process Modeler without requiring any programming.
BizAgi offers a set of tools which graphically generates a model associated to a business process (flow diagram, business rules, user interface, etc.). This model is stored in a data base, and is interpreted and executed in production through a web application by BizAgi's BPM server with out the need of any code. The resulting web application after the process automation with BizAgi has a very important characteristic: when the process is modified (any element of the model) the web application shows the change automatically.
Execute
The BizAgi BPM Server is the engine that executes and controls the business processes built in BizAgi Studio. This server is based in a collection of components that offer all the necessary functionalities for an effective business process management in the organization (work portal, BAM, business rules, integration engine, etc.).The BizAgi BPM server based on the model previously built, watches for the correctness and adequacy of the execution in the different tasks and activities that intervene in the business process; by controlling and verifying that the tasks are done in the correct moment, by the correct person or resource, and according to company's guidelines, objectives, and other fundamental rules.
Improve
BizAgi's BPM Server has a complete set of performance reports and indicators about the processes which will allow you to analyze your business, identify bottle necks and their causes, and identify improvement opportunities in your processes. Based on your findings, processes and policies may be adjusted in real time using the web application. Improvements can also be done by using BizAgi Studio to generate a new version of the process. This new version of the process can be put into production without requiring any programming, in a short period of time, by just modifying the business model the application will adapt automatically, making it easier to do continuous improvement and to increase productivity in your organization.
