BPM-X® is a software tool suite that offers sophisticated model data and diagram translation and interchange among a variety of tools, formats and standards.
Universal Model Data and Diagram translation
The BPM-X® model bus is designed as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software that converts model data and diagram graphics from various modeling tools, repositories and other so called Enterprise Management tools.
BPM-X® is an toolset for universal model transformations which handles different formats of model data from different domains like Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) or Business Process Management (BPM). BPM-X® is managed with an open meta-model with wide range of predefined configurations including over 200 modeling languages like BPMN or EPC. Adherence to worldwide standards ensures that BPM-X® customers achieve process certification and conformance.
Unique flexibility of BPM-X® encourages thorough reuse and seamless improvement of your legacy processes across different business process design platforms. BPM-X® increases the value of the processes in your organization through the flexible integration of your know-how into best practices using world-wide standards. BPM-X® will enable you to achieve global process excellence
Transformation of business process, software design or process execution models is performed between different formats and standards, within the following domains:
- Business Process Management
- Enterprise Architecture Management
- Software Development
- Service Orchestrations
- Process Execution and Workflow
- Governance-Compliance-Risk
- Quality Management
- Corporate Performance Management
BPM-X® integrates modeling tools and project participants within a heterogenius tool landscape and helps with the following scenarios:
- Business optimization using new business process management systems BPM(S) for business process automation
- Acquisition or merging of companies requires the consolidation of tools and migration of model data in an existing BPM landscape
- New business requirements implemented by SOA projects using new BPM tools and middleware require the buildup of a BPM landscape
Use cases
Typical uses of BPM-X® in your tool landscape are to:
- Consolidate you tool landscape by replacing tools in order to get more efficient tool
- Migrate existing model data from one tool into another, e.g. Visio® diagrams into valid Aris® process models
- Set up a distributed BPM landscape with easy to use BPM tools for Business Users by the integration of different BPM tools
- Use the BPM-X model bis to link tools with process repositories of leading ERP vendors like SAP® or Oracle®
- Offer a method for easy data exchange between BPM tools such as Visio® for business users and BPM expert tools such as ARIS®