Acquire a more agile enterprise and business architecture

Business challenges motivate companies to be more agile. Company acquisitions and mergers or integration of business units are necessitating consolidation programs. Streamlining and harmonization of business processes require continuous reworking of enterprise and business architectures. A common situation is that across the breadth of organizations varying tools are deployed in attempts to orchestrate and master business challenges. Rather than being productive this fact decreases the synergistic prospects between organizational units and/or business amongst partners; they are not consuming or sharing the same information, concepts and therefore language because of media gaps.

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TM Forum Frameworx is an enterprise architecture framework for telecom and digital service provider industries, it embraces eTOM, TAM, and SID. TM Forum is the organization that owns the intellectual property on Frameworx and continuously maintains its contents. TransWare AG, as a member and partner of TM Forum, has made Frameworx accessible to the leading modeling tool Sparx Systems™ Enterprise Architect (EA). Our product TM Forum Frameworx for Enterprise Architect is two things: A one-to-one translation of the Frameworx source to EA and a Frameworx add-in for EA. The Frameworx EA model currently includes the meta-data-rich diagram and element contents of eTOM, TAM, and partly SID. TM Forum members can order TM Forum Frameworx for Enterprise Architect here. All you need is EA as of version 12 or higher.

Transparency and governance of business processes

BPM-X offers an open platform to leverage existing process repositories for the publishing of enterprise and business architecture and sharing workflows as well as operational information with business lines. There is no need to recapture or rework process documentation as the BPM-X Universal Translation toolkit connects to all leading EA and BPM platforms. Therefore the publishing does not depend on existing modeling toolkits.
The main approach of BPM-X is to reduce complexity and to simplify content in a way that gains acceptance by business lines. Hence BPM-X offers a toolbox to transform complex flows in easy to read diagrams and text.

TM Forum Frameworx is an enterprise architecture framework for telecom industries, it embraces eTOM, TAM, and SID. TM Forum is the organization that owns the intellectual property on Frameworx and continuously maintains its contents. TransWare AG, as a member and partner of TM Forum, has made Frameworx accessible to the high-end modeling tool Software AG® ARIS®. Our product TM Forum Frameworx for ARIS is two things: A one-to-one translation of the Frameworx source to ARIS and a Frameworx filter and template. The Frameworx ARIS data currently include the meta-data-rich models and object contents of eTOM, TAM, and partly SID.

Convert content between different tools and standards.

In these times of global business and IT’s increasing use of cloud techniques organizational and enterprise business process architecture are best described by models and diagrams. This is very valuable meta-information describing the organization in various business and IT aspects. It is common practice within large organizations to have different modeling and governance tools, repositories and execution engines which are used for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), Workflow Design (BPMN, XPDL, BPEL) or Software Design (UML, SysML) Just to mention some disciplines where models and diagrams are used to describe the reality of business, IT and compliance. The different modeling and execution tools can be summarized by the term Enterprise Management tools.

This solution addresses the compliant integration of process models using Microsoft® Visio® and SharePoint® with the ARIS® platform. Optimize your TCO by saving costs without loss of functionality.

Describe business and IT architecture

Business processes within an organization rarely have a well-structured documentation of business architecture, workflows and operational business. The business models and underlying business processes typically evolve from existing workflows and operational practices. BPM-X provides tools and methods to help organizations: document processes and operations, identify best practice, build to-be process models and conduct gap analysis to describe the business to IT transformation.