Simulating and optimizing processes (deprecated)
IBM® Business Process Manager Optimizer is a tool designed to help you understand and refine the process models that you develop in IBM BPM.
IBM BPM Optimizer enables you to:
- Simulate your processes while you are developing them to understand
how well those process models might perform.
IBM BPM Optimizer runs simulations using estimates that you provide for staffing levels, activity execution times, and so on. Simulating your processes during development enables you to test and refine process designs before implementation.
- Analyze your processes after they are up and running using historical
data stored in the Business Performance Data Warehouse.
For each process, with autotracking enabled, you can measure actual execution, wait, and other times. You can also track the values of specific business data (process variables) as they move through each step in a process. Running historical analyses using IBM BPM Optimizer enables you to measure and then improve the efficiency of your processes.
The Optimizer provides a variety of analysis scenarios, ranging from simple simulations to validate your overall process modeling strategy to advanced what-if comparative analyses.
| IBM BPM Optimizer enables you to... | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Simulate process performance | Understand process design issues that could affect performance before process implementation |
| Identify bottlenecks and other issues | Optimize processes already in production |
| Compare actual process performance to simulations | Analyze how well your processes are doing compared to the goals that you set |
| Compare simulations to historical performance data | Analyze what would happen if you made specific changes to your processes |
| Simultaneously analyze multiple processes from a single or multiple process applications |
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