Business Process Management

Introduction to Signavio

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 Business Process Management
(BPM)
Business process management- Provides a
variety of tools and methodologies to analyze
existing processes , design new process, and
optimize those processes.
Businesses use information systems to improve
their business processes.
This change requires business to turn to BPM.

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Business Process Modeling
The activity of representing processes of
an organization, so that the current
process may be analyzed or improved.
Special modeling software is used for this
Modeling elements
Process start Process ends
(Trigger) (end state)

Activity/ Task Flow

Data based exclusion (decision)

Parallel gateway Documents

IT systems

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What is Signavio?
Signavio is a cloud based Business
Process modeling tool
Its used to create business process models
similar to this

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How to get started?

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How to get started?

Finally, check your email to confirm registration.

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Log-in to “Process Manager”

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Welcome to Signavio!

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Starting to model

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Starting to model

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Start Modeling

Drag & Drop the

modeling elements
and start modeling

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 Class Exercise:
Modeling Order Fulfillment Process

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 The Sub-process
(Order New Inventory)
Class Exercise 2:
Manufacturing Process

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 The Sub-process
(Quality Inspection)
Modeling Conventions

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Avoid Crossing Lines

Bad
Diagram

Good
Diagram

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Avoid Overlapping Lines
(Make your Diagram Symmetric)

Bad
Diagram

Good
Diagram

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Naming Conventions
Events: object + past
ex.: order received
Tasks: verb + object
ex.: ship order
X-OR gates: questions
ex.: is credit enough?

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Thank you 

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