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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


ProVision® is a high-end, feature-rich, modeling environment that can be used to design and understand your business. It is a relational database that represents information such as models, text, and grids. Information can be imported and exported to other systems easily using industry standards such as XML and Microsoft Excel. A wide variety of publishing formats are supported.

Many ProVision® modelers can collaborate with each other using the server side Knowledge Exchange® to keep track of each object and ensure that only one person can make changes to an object at any one time. Knowledge Exchange® also enables stakeholders to monitor and comment on the models as they are being built. All they need is Internet Explorer and the appropriate permissions.

ProVision® includes basic multiuser features, allowing users to communicate and collaborate with each other, even without Knowledge Exchange®.

The models are self documenting, with the textual interpretation synchronized with the models...