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Enterprise Architecture Tools - Casewise

 


Linking people, process & technology

Who is Casewise?. 1

Enterprise Application Integration & Workflow.. 3

Business Process Improvement & Management 3

ISO & Quality Management 3

e-Business Transformation. 3

ERP & CRM Selection & Implementation. 4

System Design. 4

Product architecture. 4

The Central Repository. 5

Who is Casewise?

Casewise is a recognized leader in the BPA market. Founded in 1989, Casewise has helped thousands of business analysts, data modelers, and corporate planners to understand the impact of their process improvements and redesigns. Our mission is to offer the highest quality of products and services that will assist our customers in realizing competitive advantage by linking people, process, and technology.Our flagship product, Corporate Modeler, has earned the praise of customers, analysts, and partners alike. It is a Windows-based solution that fully integrates business process analysis with enterprise modeling, connecting all the modeled objects in a common Shared Object Repository. The product was designed to be easy to use, enterprise-ready, and open.Casewise targets industry sectors where companies are looking to optimize their internal processes in response to higher competition, deregulation, mergers and acquisitions, e-business transformation, and globalization. As a result, our customer-base consists of Fortune 1000 corporations that span all industries and market sectors, although we have enjoyed particular success in the Telecom, Finance/Banking, and Utilities verticals. Casewise has also developed a strong relationship with consultant companies who have combined industry-specific expertise with the power of the Casewise products.

Casewise Corporate Modeler

From vision to process

Our flagship product – Corporate Modeler – sits at the heart of successful projects as a communication and design tool.

It is a multi user environment that enables project teams to visually model and understand an organization's business blueprint - its business processes, resources, data and systems; and then create and communicate detailed plans for change through Team based analysis. Although suitable for any initiative that involves process or enterprise analysis, Corporate Modeler has been proven to add great value in the following areas:

Enterprise Application Integration & Workflow

Any system integration initiative needs to focus on the ultimate goal of better, faster, and cheaper execution of business. In other words - better business processes. Corporate Modeler empowers you to analyze your organization’s business processes, resources, locations, data, applications and hardware – then position the systems to provide for the highest ROI. Interfaces between disparate applications can be designed through the product’s data modeling capabilities.

Business Process Improvement & Management

Corporate Modeler empowers your organization to improve performance by optimizing its (e -) business processes and supply chains. Project teams are able to collectively analyze operations in order to find and eliminate bottlenecks, then design and simulate possible improvements in a ‘risk-free’ environment. ‘Drilling-down’ enables analysis from high-level processes right down to individual job instructions, while automatic MS Word & HTML publication promotes on-going process management via on-line training and procedure manuals.

ISO & Quality Management

Corporate Modeler will help you achieve ISO 9000 by automatically mapping and documenting processes in both hard-copy manuals and HTML format. But that is just the start of the benefits. Once your processes are modeled, Corporate Modeler becomes an ongoing process management solution - enabling you to continually analyze, improve and publish your processes to maintain a competitive edge.

e-Business Transformation

The internet enables instant, straight-through, business processing. Moving your current business processes on-line is a little more complex. Corporate Modeler enables you to understand your current ‘back-end’ business processes, design your e-business services (how site visitors will access your services through your website/extranet), and then model the integration between the two. The product acts as a key communication tool for what is often a high profile and far reaching undertaking.

ERP & CRM Selection & Implementation

Major new systems need to support the business, not vice a versa. Corporate Modeler makes it easier for your project team to understand core business processes so that they can tailor new systems to support them. Links to technology vendors means process capture and systems configuration can occur within the same environment – eliminating discrepancies that often occur between the two. The tool also enables analysis of the ‘customer experience’, to build a model on which to base new CRM investment.

System Design

Corporate Modeler acts as a design and communication bridge between business and IT -ensuring systems meet and exceed business requirements. The tool enables users to precisely capture and communicate process requirements - using a notation communicative enough for business users, yet powerful enough to capture real information. Then, through third-party interfaces, models may be transferred into leading code-generation tools to create systems. Data entities (and their associated attributes) can also be mapped onto process steps, then used in Entity Relationship diagrams to create database schemas.

Product architecture

Corporate Modeler allows users to capture, and analyze, their enterprise from multiple perspectives. It combines business process, resource, costs and data modeling to form a complete view of business, underpinned by a powerful central object repository (database).

The Central Repository

The core of Corporate Modeler, the repository is a database of diagram objects, associated information and models. Once diagram objects are created, (resources, processes, data entities etc.) they are automatically stored into the repository for re-use on other diagrams. This provides an instant library of all your organizational component parts, and saves time re-creating or updating objects
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