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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

ProVision® features and functionality


The Open Text Metastorm modeling suite consists of:

  • ProVision®, which is used to model information

  • Knowledge Exchange®, which is used to store models and objects, created with the help of ProVision, on a central server

If there is only one person who is modeling, there is no need for Knowledge Exchange®. However, as soon as you get a team of modelers, you need a mechanism to share objects and models. This is the problem that Knowledge Exchange® resolves. It uses the same paradigm as software development. When teams of software developers work together on the same code, they check parts out. While checked out, objects are locked. Another user can check out the same objects as read-only. When a modeler checks in the objects, the locks are released.

As models are checked in, Knowledge Exchange® makes a website copy. Thus, users with the appropriate permissions can view the models using Internet Explorer. They do not need a license to do this. Not only can they...