Products :: Business Modeler

Overview

Business Modeler is a powerful, yet simple Enterprise Analysis tool that provides the starting point for Business initiatives:

  • Develop strategic plans and solution roadmaps
  • Align business activities within Value Chains
  • Identify business needs, problems, or opportunities
  • Define the nature of a solution that meets a business need
  • Justify solution investments (business case)
  • Provide context for identifying and documenting solution requirements an screen prototypes

Business Modeler is part of a suite of simplified architectural modeling tools, including UI Modeler, Requirements Modeler, and Domain Modeler. Unlike many other suites of modeling tools, our tools were designed from the ground up to work together, eliminate rework, and simplify and compress the delivery life cycle.

Who can use Business Modeler?

Business Analysts, Solution Architects, GUI Designers

Features and Benefits Summary

Features Benefits
Domain Specific Modeling Languages
  • Organizational Structure
  • Process Architecture
  • Information, Systems, and Services
  • Business Motivation

  • An integrated, holistic view of the enterprise
  • Effectively communicate business concepts using shared knowledge
  • Greater organizational efficiency and reduce operating costs (lean)
  • Improve Business agility
  • Improve Business-IT alignment (from cost to value)
  • Enable IT simplification and reduce overlapping data and functionality
  • Eliminate redundant IT efforts
  • Improve system requirements for new projects
  • Faster IT delivery with lower risks and fewer defects
  • Comprehensive impact analysis
Cost Analysis
  • Cost Analytics
  • Process and task cost (estimated and derived)
  • Role salary and work effort
  • System TCO (development, support, maintenance)
  • Cost avoidance from system utilization

  • Better IT governance
  • Objectively identify high cost “hot spots”
  • Quickly perform ROI analysis for new projects
  • Easily explore multiple scenarios and alternatives
  • Easily evaluate against multiple cost assumptions
Easy to Use
  • Organized palette with context sensitive tools
  • Simplified modeling interface
  • Standard menus and controls

  • UML noise is filtered out, but still easily accessible
  • Semantically correct models are easy to create
  • Low learning curve
Standards Based
  • Eclipse (Galileo and Helios)
  • UML2.1
  • BPMN2.0
  • OSM
  • BMM

  • Vendor independence
  • Tool independence
  • Seamlessly integrates with many IDEs

 

Features and Benefits Details

Features Benefits
Model Organizational Structure
  • Company, organization, and communities
  • Organizational positions and responsibilities
  • Organizational hierarchies and process ownership

  • Understand the organizational structure of the business
  • Understand where business stakeholders fit within the business
  • Understand what the business needs
Model Process Architecture
  • Value chains, streams, processes, tasks, and linkages
    affects, coordinates, decompose, flow, optimizes 
  • Process roles and RASCI
  • Business events
  • System and information utilization (CRUD)

  • Establish a shared knowledge of processes
  • Improve ability to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Understand what the company does and how it does it
  • Understand how corporate processes relate to each other
  • Understand how information is managed across processes
  • Improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness
Model Product Structure
  • Goods, services, and product features
  • Standard and custom product relationships
  • Package definitions and inclusion rules

  • Understand the products the business value chain creates
  • Understand how how products relate to each other
  • Understand product packaging strategy
Model Information, Systems, and Services
  • Information SoR and quality management
    authorization, completeness, integrity, freshness, richness 
  • Commercial and custom systems
    Vendor, version, platform, disaster recovery 
  • System dependencies and information flow
    frequency, volume, direction, synchronicity 

  • Understand how information flows throughout the business
  • Understand how technology can better support the business
  • Understand the impact of systems on business continuity
Model Business Motivation
  • Policies and rules (structural and operative)
  • Goals

  • Understand business strategies and goals
  • Understand business constraints

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Examples

These examples are part of an end-to-end life cycle example that cuts across all of Nascent Blue's modeling tools. The complete example can be viewed by following the links below.