Process Modelling Software

Increasing process control and consistency: Processes and rules can be clearly identified by process modeling tools. These help organizations identify and correct inconsistencies and inefficiencies.

Standardization of best practices: Identification and standardization of best practices among multiple versions of business applications in business units is an advantage of using process modeling software. Organizations design their business processes by adopting the models that work best and increase their efficiency by standardizing their processes.

Improvements in corporate communication: One of the easiest ways to help employees understand processes is to visualize them and clearly indicate the work to be done in a sequence. Business modeling software accelerates the business modeling process by facilitating model creation and modification.

Improved corporate alignment: Incompatibility between processes and strategies often results in application failure. Using process modeling software enables managers and executives to better understand processes and evaluate them in light of the overall strategy of the enterprise.

Technical features: Important features are:

• Supported export and import formats: Other companies in joint projects or different departments may have different business modeling process software. There may be software that supports different import and export formats such as XPDL or BPEL to connect different models. It is necessary to know the formats supported by the software to be used in advance.
• User-Defined Functionalities: It is an important factor to consider if the software supports reusable user-defined functionality such as model comparison and specific queries on process models
• Integration: Integration of process modeling software to other tools such as process management software is a factor that enables process automation. It is important for process modelling software to be integrated to process mining or other software to observe the differences between modelled process and the actual process.

Technical support: Technical support of the software to be used should be considered. Providing technical support for the tools used in the design of complex processes speeds up the process modeling process.

Graphical User Interface: In order to make the process faster, the software used to facilitate process modeling should also be easy to use. Graphical user interfaces of different products can be a major factor to compare the usability. The most suitable tool in terms of usability can be selected by asking for a demo from different vendors.

Cost: If the complexity of processes that will be modeled by using process modeling are well defined, the price of the software can be optimized accordingly. It will be inefficient to purchase the most complex management tools to manage relatively simple processes.

There are two main reasons why process modeling tools are important:

• operational complexity increases over time,
• processes need to be modeled in order to be automated.

Growing enterprises have increasingly complex processes as they serve more diverse customers and as their customers demand more customized products and services. Complexity slows down decision making and hides inefficiencies. Process modeling allows complex operational structures to be modeled. These models help businesses understand, improve and automate their processes.

Detailed process models are necessary for successful solutions that automate a high ratio of the manual workload. This is because they cover process variations and anomalies in detail, helping developers automate these cases as well.

Creating flowcharts and workflows: To visualize and model processes, it is necessary to create clear flow charts and workflows. Inputs, outputs and control mechanisms are clarified by process modeling tools. Creating these diagrams is one of the main features of these tools.

Creating a process model from fragments: Process modeling tools are used to create a general model using work flow charts and all other visual components. Process modeling software helps to combine small parts and identify missing points.

Hierarchical representations of process models: Hierarchical representations of business process models are an effective representation of the process.

Automated Compliance Management: Manual compliance checking is time-consuming and error-prone for complex processes. Process modeling tools enable users to automated compliance checks and management.