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IDL
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BPMN
Modeling
Domain
Modeling
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Company
Who
is IDL?
IDL provides enterprise-class
business simulation and visualization software to improve
business decision making. IDL model-driven simulation solutions
help organizations streamline operations, improve strategic
flexibility and reduce costs through improved real-time decisions.
Once the business processes and domain models are automated,
IDL EPCAD OPA helps organizations to pinpoint bottlenecks,
resource drains and value networks discontinuities that can
now be systematically resolved. This approach gets the organization
and the silos working together toward common corporate objectives
- the way they should work.
BPMN
Modeling
What is Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)?
The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a graphical
notation that depicts the steps in a business process. BPMN
depicts the end to end flow of a business process. The notation
has been specifically designed to coordinate the sequence
of processes and the messages that flow between different
process participants in a related set of activities.
Why
is BPMN important?
The world of business processes has changed dramatically over
the past few years. Processes can be coordinated from behind,
within and over organization's natural boundaries. A business
process now spans multiple participants and coordination can
be complex. Until BPMN, there has not been a standard modeling
technique developed that addresses these issues. BPMN has
been developed to provide users with a royalty free notation.
This will benefit users in a similar manner in which UML standardized
the world of software engineering. There will be training
courses, books and a body of knowledge that users can access
in order to better implement a business process.
Who
is BPMN targeted at?
BPMN is targeted at a high level for business users and at
a lower level for process implementers. The business users
should be able to easily read and understand a BPMN business
process diagram. The process implementer should be able to
adorn a business process diagram with further detail in order
to represent the process in a physical implementation.
BPMN is targeted at users, vendors, and service providers
that need to communicate business processes in a standard
manner.
What
does this mean for UML users?
The unified modeling language (UML) takes an object-oriented
approach to the modeling of applications, while BPMN takes
a process-oriented approach to modeling of systems. Where
BPMN has a focus on business processes, the UML has a focus
on software design and therefore the two are not competing
notations but are different views on systems. The BPMN
and the UML are compatible with each other. A business process
model does not necessarily have to be implemented as an automated
business process in a process execution language. Where this
is the case, business processes and participants can be mapped
to constructs such as use cases and behavioral models in the
UML. Further white papers will follow on the mapping between
these techniques.
What
is the relationship between BPMN and BPEL?
BPEL is an XML-based language for describing a business process
in which most of the tasks represent interactions between
the process and external Web services. The BPEL process itself
is represented as a Web service, and is realized by a BPEL
engine which executes the process description. BPMN is a standard
set of diagramming conventions for describing business processes.
It is designed to visualize a rich set of process flow semantics
within a process and the communication between independent
processes. It is intended to support capture of sufficient
detail to allow it to be the source of an executable process
description. Since BPEL is currently considered the most important
standard for execution languages, a translation to BPEL is
specified in the BPMN standard. By design there are some limitations
on the process topologies that can be described in BPEL, so
it is possible to represent processes in BPMN that cannot
be mapped to BPEL. There are a few concepts, such as Ad-Hoc
sub-processes, that BPMN can represent that may not be implemented
with any technology.
Domain
Modeling
What
is Domain Modeling?
The term domain model is overloaded, meaning different things
to different communities.
In information modeling
and also in the Unified Process, it means the same as an "analysis
object model" or a "conceptual data model".
This use of Domain Modeling meant a description of domain
concepts in the domain of interest (e.g., some "real
world" like stock trading, restaurant production), visualized
in a some data modeling language/notation.
Why
is Domain Modeling important?
Domain modeling is an important part of software and architecture
design. Having a good model allows developers and business
to have a common language, which in turn makes much simpler
the communication of requirements and the maintenance of the
system/architecture.
What
is a Domain Model?
A Domain Model,
in information modeling, is an object model for a problem
domain. Elements of a domain model are DomainObject classes,
and the relationships between them.
A domain model in
problem solving (e.g., software engineering, production design)
can be thought of as a conceptual model of a domain of interest
(or problem domain) which describes the various entities,
their attributes and relationships, in addition to the constraints
that govern the integrity of the model elements comprising
that problem domain.
What
is Business Architecture Domains?
Business Architecture
Domains refers to the structure and behavior of business systems
(not necessarily related to computers). These domains include
business goals, organization structures, business functions
(capabilities), business processes, and roles. Business functions
and business processes are often mapped to the business applications
and data they need.
Retis
DMM Studio
What
is DMM Studio?
Retis DMM STUDIO is an integrated modeling environment with
two configurations Retis DMM Studio BPD and Retis DMM Studio
EMA.
Retis DMM Studio
BPD is a full-featured business process modeler seriously
supporting latest OMG's Business Process Modeling Notation
(BPMN). Retis DMM STUDIO BPD provides the most easy-to-use
diagramming environment for you to model your business process,
just explore our quick tour to see how Retis DMM STUDIO BPD
can help in designing and organizing your business process.
Who
can benefit from using DMM Studio BPD?
Business Analysts and IT Professionals both can benefit from
DMM STUDIO BPD. Business Analysts can use the DMM STUDIO BPD
to design and document the business process. IT Professionals
can use DMM STUDIO BPD to capture requirements by analyzing
the business process of the existing system.
How
much does DMM Studio BPD cost?
Please visit our E-Store
for pricing information.
Can
DMM Studio BPD support BPEL export?
The current version of DMM STUDIO BPD does not support BPEL
export. We will release the BPEL export feature within the
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Software
Licenses and Maintenance
What
is software maintenance?
Software maintenance is the most economical way for you to
keep your software up-to-date. Customers are entitled to get
all version upgrades within the software maintenance period.
The software maintenance is purchased on a yearly basis (e.g.
20 January, 2006 - 19 January, 2007). The maintenance cost
is 20% of the product listed price per year (US $190.00) if
purchased with the product or extending a valid maintenance
contract. If the maintenance contract is purchased separately,
it costs 30% of the product listed price (US $285.00). A valid
maintenance contract means a maintenance contract within the
maintenance period. Customers can purchase the product maintenance
up to three years.
Where
can I get support when I have an inquiry or encounter problems?
IDL is committed to assist our users on any inquiry and problem
about IDL products. If you have inquiries about our products,
please do not hesitate to contact our technical and sales
team.
Technical Support: support@edglabs.com
Sales Support: sales@edglabs.com
Can
I get support if I have not purchased maintenance?
Our mission is to deliver a quality application to all of
our users. Quality application includes stable and easy-to-use
software plus a good technical support service. You can contact
our support team no matter whether you have purchased the
maintenance or not. We will try our best to answer your questions
and fix your problem.
Are
there any limitations on an evaluation license?
There is no feature limitation of an evaluation license. You
can use all features with an evaluation license. By using
an evaluation license your copy and paste (to other applications),
exported image and printing will have watermarks.
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