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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

Comparing level 1 and level 3 frameworks


In this section, we compare Enterprise Designer with eTOM, and understand how Enterprise Designer can complement eTOM to fill in the gaps.

eTOM (enhanced Telecom Operations Map)

According to the Telemanagement forum (www.tmforum.org):

The eTOM Business Process Framework is a reference framework for categorizing all the business activities used by an enterprise involved in delivering on-line Information, Communications and Entertainment services. This is done through definition of each area of business activity, in the form of process components or process elements that can be decomposed to expose progressive detail. These process elements can then be positioned within a model to show organizational, functional and other relationships, and can be combined within process flows that trace activity paths through the business.

eTOM defines 401 process elements arranged in a hierarchy. If you were to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and define all the business...