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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By : Bill Aronson
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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By: Bill Aronson

Overview of this book

Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources. Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Open Text Metastorm ProVision® 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Summary


If all that you wish to do is draw pictures, then Visio will do the job. However, as soon as you want to create a model of the key parts of the enterprise, a drawing package is inadequate. It simply is just not designed for this purpose. You can't maintain thousands of objects, you can't collaborate, and you can't scale.

ProVision® is one of a handful of software packages that have been designed to help manage large, complex organizations.

ProVision® is part of the Open Text Metastorm business process execution suite. As your enterprise matures and grows, you may want to be able to automate the monitoring of high value or high volume processes. By adopting ProVision®, you give yourself the ability to transition to business process execution, without the need to switch platforms.

Of the tools that are designed to model the whole business, each has strengths and weaknesses. ProVision® is a good all round tool.

Sandra developed a point of view that the strongest link to business strategy...