What Is Business Process Modeling?

Business Process Modeling is a technique to describe and optimize business processes within an organization. Unlike business information modeling and interface modeling which break down a business into its functional components, Business Process Modeling is cross-functional, emphasizing the interaction and coordination between people and systems throughout the organization. Business Process Modeling provides a set of understandable, repeatable structures for defining business processes. Gemini Systems utilizes a rigorous and highly structured approach to process automation which helps organizations increase throughput, reduce cycle times, improve efficiency and maximize customer satisfaction.

Data Modeling Using Extended Relational Analysis

Extended Relational Analysis (ERA) was the first, and is still the best standard relational database design methodology on the market. There is no faster, more consistent, more structured, or more understandable way to develop a mathematically normalized data model. Interaction between users and developers is direct, meaningful, and in plain English.

Why Is Business Process Modeling Important?

Peoplesoft CEO Craig Conway claims that 85% of the public companies that improved their bottom line in 2002 did so by improving internal processes, not by increasing revenues (source: Information Week). Business processes are comprised of networks of workflows. Since each workflow has the identical structure, process management can be easily automated to derive answers to important questions such as:

• Where are bottlenecks?
• Where are resources needed?
• Where are commitments not being satisfied?
• How can processes be optimized?

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