New Release Extends Reporting and Analysis, Enhances Interoperability, and
Improves Enterprise Scalability
BALTIMORE, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 6.1 of the Metastorm ProVision
enterprise modeling software suite -- including an update to its
collaborative Knowledge Exchange web-based repository application.
Metastorm ProVision 6.1 provides enhancements that support Metastorm's
objective of aligning strategy, analysis and execution on a single software
platform, while at the same time offering deep capabilities within each
distinct discipline. Key features of the new release include additional
reporting and analysis features for portfolio management and Six Sigma,
robust interfaces for improved interoperability, and increased enterprise
scalability to better support large enterprise architecture programs.
"This next generation release of Metastorm ProVision and Metastorm
Knowledge Exchange gives our customers the ability to better support
enterprise alignment and enable agility," said Greg Carter, vice president
of development and CTO of Metastorm. "By fusing together powerful new
capabilities for analysis, collaboration and scalability, we believe we can
help organizations drive innovation across their entire enterprise."
Enhancements included in Metastorm ProVision 6.1 include:
Reporting and Analysis - New reporting and analysis capabilities in the
areas of Portfolio Management and Six Sigma will allow organizations to
examine the underlying structure of the enterprise to optimize its asset
investments and improve process performance. These capabilities provide
multiple methods for analyzing processes and systems. The reports and
analysis scripts can be used as is or modified to suit a customer's
specific statistical analysis requirements.
-- Portfolio Management reports - Reports for Portfolio Management support
a sound business approach for optimizing investments in enterprise
assets. The Metastorm Portfolio Management reports cover risk, cost,
benefit, time and resource investments in the project portfolio, as
well as asset management issues found in system and technology
portfolios.
-- Six Sigma/Lean Sigma reports - New Metastorm ProVision Six Sigma
reports for Voice of the Customer, Cost/Benefit Analysis, SIPOC, RACI
and FMEA provide organizations with access to the most widely used
methodology for improving process performance.
-- Collaborative Analysis - Metastorm ProVision also introduces new
collaboration capabilities with statistical analysis tools including
Minitab and JMP. For example, these statistical analyses can use
simulation to pinpoint the time and conditions where a process
bottlenecked or excessive costs were incurred.
Interoperability - New interfaces using the latest XPDL and XMI
standards increase interoperability and demonstrate Metastorm's continued
commitment to and support of its Common Interchange Format (CIF), which
supports numerous open standards interfaces and enables easy integration
with third-party software packages.
-- XPDL Interface - New interface capabilities are available with the
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) XPDL process definition
interchange standard. This feature enables the export and import of
both XPDL 1.0 and 2.0 process definitions.
-- Rational Software Interface - Enhanced interface capabilities provide
both an export to and an import from Rational Software Architect (RSA)
and Rational Software Modeler (RSM). The interface employs XMI 2.1 that
can interface with RSA, RSM or any other software tool conforming to
this standard. The Rational software product will then contain models
and objects sourced from Metastorm ProVision, which will be beneficial
to the many Metastorm customers that use Rational for application
development.
Metastorm Enterprise(TM) Developments - To more effectively align
strategy with execution, Metastorm is moving its independent EA, BPA, and
BPM applications to a common platform - Metastorm Enterprise - that will
include shared services and a common meta-model for enhanced visibility and
better understanding of the impact of decisions at all levels. As part of
the Metastorm Enterprise platform development, Metastorm ProVision 6.1
includes enhancements that allow it to better interoperate with Metastorm
BPM(R) and to scale to the needs of large enterprise architecture demands.
-- Metastorm BPM Simulation - Metastorm ProVision will become accessible
to Metastorm BPM users as the simulation module of the Metastorm BPM
suite in its next release. This will allow processes in Metastorm BPM
to be visible in Metastorm ProVision so that simulations can be
performed. Running simulations on process models allows organizations
to make informed, knowledgeable decisions regarding changes to
processes and enhances full life-cycle process management. Metastorm
ProVision is one of the leading, full-scale BPA tools on the market and
its combination with Metastorm BPM - a leading BPM suite - provides
customers with both depth and breadth for the analysis and execution of
critical business processes.
-- Enterprise Scalability - The Metastorm Knowledge Exchange collaboration
server and repository allows business and IT analysts to build,
manage, update, share and collaborate on business and system models via
the web - enabling globally-distributed teams to work together on a
common, model-based view of their enterprise. Version 6.1 is designed
to better support the scalability and productivity challenges
encountered by large enterprise architecture programs, which need to
model hundreds of objects and interdependencies and often support
thousands of users.
"As a long-time customer, Seagate is excited to deploy Metastorm
ProVision 6.1 and take advantage of its many new capabilities, especially
with regard to the Six Sigma reports and expanded enterprise scalability,"
said Debra Berard, program manager for Business Excellence, Lean/Six Sigma
at Seagate Technology. "We have always appreciated Metastorm ProVision's
robust functionality for analysis, and are confident the additional
features will help Seagate reach our goal of cross-functional excellence."
About Metastorm Inc.
With a focus on enterprise visibility, optimization, and agility,
Metastorm offers market-leading software for Enterprise Architecture (EA),
Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM). As
an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise(TM) allows
organizations to improve business results by unifying strategy, analysis
and execution. Metastorm is bringing together these critical disciplines to
enable an understanding of enterprise architecture and strategy, accurate
impact and opportunity assessment, effective process execution, and
accelerated value realization for organizations worldwide. For more
information on powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise,
visit http://www.metastorm.com.
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