The document discusses how analytics and data mining can be used to gain insights from data generated by business processes. It describes how event data from processes can be analyzed in real-time for monitoring and over time to identify patterns and opportunities for process improvement. Key applications discussed include predictive modeling, simulation, optimization, and automated recommendations for resource allocation and process changes.
A presentation by Calven van der Byl BCom Economics and Statistics, BCom Honours Mathematical Statistics, Masters Mathematical Statistics, Inventory Optimization Demand Planning Manager, DSV, South Africa.
Delivered during SAPICS 2016, a leading event for supply chain professionals, held in Sun City, South Africa.
Demand Planning is a complex, yet often de-emphasized function in the supply chain planning function. The demand planning function is often characterized by an over-reliance on off the shelf software as well as a great deal of manual intervention. This presentation will outline the current developments and perspective in big data analytics and how they can be leveraged with the demand planning function to improve forecasting agility and efficiency. A simulation study will be presented in order to illustrate these principles in practice.
This document provides definitions for various terms related to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). It defines terms such as ABC classification, abstract data, access paths, accuracy, action messages, activity accounting, activity analysis, and more. The definitions are brief and provide the essential meaning and context for each term.
The document provides a practical 90-day guide to effective capacity management. It discusses measuring current resource, service, and business capacity, identifying peak load hours to understand capacity utilization. Projecting future capacity needs based on trends allows identifying resources nearing saturation. Under-utilized resources can be reduced, redeployed, or resized to optimize costs while ensuring capacity matches evolving business demands. The three-month plan involves creating a workload catalog in month one, projecting demands and supplementing capacity in month two, and optimizing resources in month three before repeating the process.
The document discusses setting up a measurement system for governance of continuous process improvement (CPM) including defining customer and organizational metrics, establishing statistical baselines using hypothesis testing, developing process performance models, and facilitating improvement projects. It provides examples of different statistical tests that can be used for baselining metrics and recommends identifying key process inputs and their relationship to outputs through data analysis to create transfer functions for process performance modeling.
The document discusses work sampling and its use in determining machine utilization, production standards, and allowances. Work sampling provides this information faster and at lower cost than traditional time studies. It involves making random observations over time to calculate workers' productive and non-productive time. The accuracy of work sampling data depends on the number of observations and period observed. Control charts can also be applied to identify problem areas and track improvements. Proper design of observation forms and an unbiased approach are important for effective work sampling.
Search Engine Optimization and Analytics for CSEPP Advanced Training CourseBryan Campbell
This document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) including definitions, key concepts, and best practices. It defines SEO as improving website visibility in organic search results. Major points covered include:
- The top factors search engines like Google consider in rankings are speed, mobile friendliness, high quality content, and links from other relevant sites.
- On-page techniques like optimizing titles, meta descriptions and images can boost rankings.
- Engagement with social media and multimedia content creates backlinks and awareness.
- Analytics tools like Google Analytics and search console help measure SEO performance and identify issues.
Machine Learned Relevance at A Large Scale Search EngineSalford Systems
The document discusses machine learned relevance at a large scale search engine. It provides biographies of the two authors who have extensive experience in machine learning and search engines. It then outlines the topics to be covered, including an introduction to machine learned ranking for search, relevance evaluation methodologies, data collection and metrics, the Quixey search engine system, model training approaches, and conclusions.
Data mining in web search engine optimizationBookStoreLib
This document presents a proposed approach for optimizing web search by incorporating user feedback to improve result rankings. The approach uses keyword analysis on the user query to initially retrieve and rank relevant web pages. It then analyzes user responses like likes/dislikes and visit counts to update the page rankings. Experimental results on sample education queries show how page rankings change as user responses increase likes for certain pages. The approach aims to provide more useful search results by better reflecting individual user preferences.
Tim Metzner and Connie Ross from Empower Media Marketing presented on search engine marketing. They discussed paid search (PPC), organic search (SEO), local search, and mobile search. Empower Media Marketing has experience helping startups, regional companies, and global brands with search engine marketing. They outlined trends in digital advertising spending and provided an overview of key concepts in search engine marketing.
This document provides an overview of search engine marketing (SEM). It defines key SEM concepts like paid search, organic search, and search engine optimization (SEO). It also outlines tactics for SEM like keyword research, building targeted ad campaigns, optimizing ad copy, and leveraging different match types and platforms like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The goal of SEM is to drive qualified traffic to websites through search engine results.
This document summarizes a seminar presentation on using data mining techniques for telecommunications. It discusses three main types of telecom data: call summary data, network data, and customer data. It then describes using a genetic algorithm approach to mine sequential patterns from telecom databases. The genetic algorithm uses country codes to represent chromosomes and applies genetic operators and fitness functions to iteratively find sequential patterns in the telecom data. The approach provides non-optimal solutions faster than traditional algorithms.
Garbanzo is a Mediterranean-themed restaurant headquartered in Denver, CO that offers freshly made pitas, entrees like chicken shawarma and falafel, and homemade soups and salads. Its marketing strategy includes increasing website traffic and social media engagement, promoting its menu, attracting franchisees, and publicizing community outreach through targeted keywords, ads, social media groups, and measurement of key metrics like click-through rate and return on investment.
presentation on search engine optimization.gives a brief idea about the methods for optimizing our website.methods are explained with examples.this presentation willbe useful for preparing seminar.
The document discusses different types of search engines. It describes search engines as programs that use keywords to search websites and return relevant results. It provides examples of popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com. It also explains different types of search engines such as crawler-based, directory-based, specialty, hybrid, and meta search engines. Finally, it discusses how to effectively use search engines through techniques like being specific, using symbols like + and -, and using Boolean searches.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
Data mining is an important part of business intelligence and refers to discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of data. It involves applying techniques from multiple disciplines like statistics, machine learning, and information science to large datasets. While organizations collect vast amounts of data, data mining is needed to extract useful knowledge and insights from it. Some common techniques of data mining include classification, clustering, association analysis, and outlier detection. Data mining tools can help organizations apply these techniques to gain intelligence from their data warehouses.
Process wind tunnel - A novel capability for data-driven business process imp...Sudhendu Rai
A talk I gave recently on data-driven process improvement methodology and techniques with applications and results from insurance and finance processes
This document discusses business process analysis, simulation, and optimization. It provides an overview of structural and statistical analysis, capacity analysis using dynamic simulation methods, visualization and numeric simulation techniques in business process simulation. Optimization techniques are discussed for selecting optimal scenarios. The benefits of simulation over real-world testing are speed and low cost. Process simulation best practices and caveats are also covered, such as ensuring the right model, parameters, and expertise for the intended goals.
This session will be a combination of presentation and demonstration where we will discuss the role of the Business Analyst in Business Process Modeling and the importance of modeling. A demonstration of how modeling tools can assist a BA in their work will be delivered and will include:
- documenting current or future processes
- determining how processes can be optimized and improved using simulation metrics
- using forms in process design and storyboarding
- publishing models to a larger community for feedback.
- how process models can be transformed into the language of IT (UML, BPEL, etc).
We will also demonstrate BPM BlueWorks, which is an online platform for business analysts! It can help accelerate business process improvement at NO COST. Features include dozens of industry-specific strategy, capability and process maps. Private online tools and workspaces to build new business processes and capability to share online workspaces with your colleagues. Check out http://www.bpmblueworks.com
Predictive analytic models are not new within many analytical organizations. However, the use of predictive analytics is growing rapidly. Data-driven decision-making initiatives are compelling more and more enterprises to move their analytics efforts beyond the basics. Enterprises must go from measurement and reporting to predictions and decision management. With ever-increasing amounts of historical data ready for mining, the right predictive analytic models can help an enterprise understand future behavior – adherence to medical prescriptions, increased or decreased spending, loan repayment, and more. By driving better decision-making, such insights can be transformative. Join us as we look into best-practices for building a predictive enterprise, technology tips for using and implementing predictive analytics tools, and guidelines for building predictive models.
Predictive Analytics at the Speed of Business -
How decision management and a real-time infrastructure get predictive analytics where and when you need them.
Organizations are looking to maximize the value of their analytics investment. They need to accelerate the deployment process, reduce costs and get the analytic insight where they need it, when they need it. Increasingly organizations must deploy and manage many models, use those models in real-time and integrate predictive analytics into a wide range of operational systems – in the cloud, on-premise, for Hadoop and in-database. In this webinar you will learn how Decision Management and ADAPA – a proven approach and real-time infrastructure – transform passive models into operational success. This webinar is jointly presented by James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions and Dr. Alex Guazzelli, Vice President of Analytics at Zementis.
This document provides an agenda for a data science conference. It includes sections on who the speakers will be from various organizations like IBM, China Mobile, and New Zealand Customs. It also outlines topics that will be discussed, including data science, predictive analytics applications in areas like customer retention and fraud detection, and case studies of success stories implementing predictive analytics.
This document summarizes a presentation about decision management systems. It discusses four key capabilities of decision management systems: 1) effectively managing decision logic, 2) deeply embedding analytics, 3) monitoring and managing decision performance, and 4) optimizing results. It also provides an overview of the broader IT context in which decision management systems operate and discusses product categories and vendors in the decision management field.
To ensure that Decision Management Systems are analytic and adaptive you must embed the results of data mining and predictive analytics in them. In this webinar you will learn what can be discovered using data mining and predictive analytic techniques and how this can be applied to the decision-making embedded in Decision Management Systems. The role of analytics in predicting risk, fraud and opportunity and the importance of continuous improvement and learning is also be covered.
The document discusses smart business processes and process optimization. It introduces the concept of a smart business process as one that is continually optimized using data-driven simulation, optimization, and real-time analytics. It provides an overview of Xerox services capabilities and the need to improve processes using data-driven approaches. Examples of process optimization research areas are discussed like simulation optimization, process flexibility, and buffer optimization. The strategic vision is to advance the science of data-driven process simulation optimization and demonstrate significant business impacts.
1) The document discusses adopting an effective decision making framework using common methods and processes. It emphasizes capturing analytic insight as an asset and improving collaboration.
2) Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is presented as a common language that can be used to model decisions. DMN provides constructs to define decisions, their requirements, and relationships in diagrams.
3) Examples of applying DMN to decisions around retail conversion rate are shown. Components such as decisions, data sources, and knowledge bases are modeled visually.
Process.Science Process Mining for Business IntelligenceProcess.Science
Transform Complexity into Clarity with Process.Science
At Process.Science, we empower medium to large enterprises to unlock the full potential of their operations through our cutting-edge AI-powered process mining solutions. Our innovative platform seamlessly integrates with industry-leading Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Qlik Sense, providing a comprehensive and transparent view of your business processes.
Imagine being able to analyze your business processes in just two days without the burden of exhaustive staff interviews. With our user-friendly process apps, you can achieve this and more. Tailored for specific industries such as purchasing, production, and logistics, these apps transform complex data into actionable insights, allowing you to visualize real-time data, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and identify areas for operational improvement—the result? Enhanced efficiency and innovation within your enterprise.
Our AI-driven technology eliminates the traditional challenges associated with process mining. Gone are the days of tedious data compilation and subjective interviews; our solution delivers clarity with minimal effort. You can define and monitor KPIs & PPIs effortlessly while spotting emerging patterns and correlations in your data. Simulations enable you to assess the impact of potential process changes before implementation, giving you the confidence to make informed decisions.
Experience a significant reduction in lead times by pinpointing call orders that exceed standard durations and optimize your operations by detecting receivables closed erroneously. Ensure compliance with our targeted filters that highlight discrepancies between actual processes and standard procedures.
Let Process.Science bring transformative insights to your organization. With our commitment to clarity and confidence, we provide the tools needed to drive performance and operational excellence. No longer will data-driven decisions be out of reach; empower your enterprise with our process mining solutions and witness the evolution from complexity to clarity.
Ready to transform your business processes? Visit us at Process.Science (https://www.process-science.com) to learn more about our solutions or explore our products at Process.Science ps4pbi and Process.Science ps4qlk.
Explore the advantages of AI-driven process mining and take the first step towards operational excellence today!
Tim Metzner and Connie Ross from Empower Media Marketing presented on search engine marketing. They discussed paid search (PPC), organic search (SEO), local search, and mobile search. Empower Media Marketing has experience helping startups, regional companies, and global brands with search engine marketing. They outlined trends in digital advertising spending and provided an overview of key concepts in search engine marketing.
This document provides an overview of search engine marketing (SEM). It defines key SEM concepts like paid search, organic search, and search engine optimization (SEO). It also outlines tactics for SEM like keyword research, building targeted ad campaigns, optimizing ad copy, and leveraging different match types and platforms like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The goal of SEM is to drive qualified traffic to websites through search engine results.
This document summarizes a seminar presentation on using data mining techniques for telecommunications. It discusses three main types of telecom data: call summary data, network data, and customer data. It then describes using a genetic algorithm approach to mine sequential patterns from telecom databases. The genetic algorithm uses country codes to represent chromosomes and applies genetic operators and fitness functions to iteratively find sequential patterns in the telecom data. The approach provides non-optimal solutions faster than traditional algorithms.
Garbanzo is a Mediterranean-themed restaurant headquartered in Denver, CO that offers freshly made pitas, entrees like chicken shawarma and falafel, and homemade soups and salads. Its marketing strategy includes increasing website traffic and social media engagement, promoting its menu, attracting franchisees, and publicizing community outreach through targeted keywords, ads, social media groups, and measurement of key metrics like click-through rate and return on investment.
presentation on search engine optimization.gives a brief idea about the methods for optimizing our website.methods are explained with examples.this presentation willbe useful for preparing seminar.
The document discusses different types of search engines. It describes search engines as programs that use keywords to search websites and return relevant results. It provides examples of popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com. It also explains different types of search engines such as crawler-based, directory-based, specialty, hybrid, and meta search engines. Finally, it discusses how to effectively use search engines through techniques like being specific, using symbols like + and -, and using Boolean searches.
The document is a chapter from a textbook on data mining written by Akannsha A. Totewar, a professor at YCCE in Nagpur, India. It provides an introduction to data mining, including definitions of data mining, the motivation and evolution of the field, common data mining tasks, and major issues in data mining such as methodology, performance, and privacy.
Data mining is an important part of business intelligence and refers to discovering interesting patterns from large amounts of data. It involves applying techniques from multiple disciplines like statistics, machine learning, and information science to large datasets. While organizations collect vast amounts of data, data mining is needed to extract useful knowledge and insights from it. Some common techniques of data mining include classification, clustering, association analysis, and outlier detection. Data mining tools can help organizations apply these techniques to gain intelligence from their data warehouses.
Process wind tunnel - A novel capability for data-driven business process imp...Sudhendu Rai
A talk I gave recently on data-driven process improvement methodology and techniques with applications and results from insurance and finance processes
This document discusses business process analysis, simulation, and optimization. It provides an overview of structural and statistical analysis, capacity analysis using dynamic simulation methods, visualization and numeric simulation techniques in business process simulation. Optimization techniques are discussed for selecting optimal scenarios. The benefits of simulation over real-world testing are speed and low cost. Process simulation best practices and caveats are also covered, such as ensuring the right model, parameters, and expertise for the intended goals.
This session will be a combination of presentation and demonstration where we will discuss the role of the Business Analyst in Business Process Modeling and the importance of modeling. A demonstration of how modeling tools can assist a BA in their work will be delivered and will include:
- documenting current or future processes
- determining how processes can be optimized and improved using simulation metrics
- using forms in process design and storyboarding
- publishing models to a larger community for feedback.
- how process models can be transformed into the language of IT (UML, BPEL, etc).
We will also demonstrate BPM BlueWorks, which is an online platform for business analysts! It can help accelerate business process improvement at NO COST. Features include dozens of industry-specific strategy, capability and process maps. Private online tools and workspaces to build new business processes and capability to share online workspaces with your colleagues. Check out http://www.bpmblueworks.com
Predictive analytic models are not new within many analytical organizations. However, the use of predictive analytics is growing rapidly. Data-driven decision-making initiatives are compelling more and more enterprises to move their analytics efforts beyond the basics. Enterprises must go from measurement and reporting to predictions and decision management. With ever-increasing amounts of historical data ready for mining, the right predictive analytic models can help an enterprise understand future behavior – adherence to medical prescriptions, increased or decreased spending, loan repayment, and more. By driving better decision-making, such insights can be transformative. Join us as we look into best-practices for building a predictive enterprise, technology tips for using and implementing predictive analytics tools, and guidelines for building predictive models.
Predictive Analytics at the Speed of Business -
How decision management and a real-time infrastructure get predictive analytics where and when you need them.
Organizations are looking to maximize the value of their analytics investment. They need to accelerate the deployment process, reduce costs and get the analytic insight where they need it, when they need it. Increasingly organizations must deploy and manage many models, use those models in real-time and integrate predictive analytics into a wide range of operational systems – in the cloud, on-premise, for Hadoop and in-database. In this webinar you will learn how Decision Management and ADAPA – a proven approach and real-time infrastructure – transform passive models into operational success. This webinar is jointly presented by James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions and Dr. Alex Guazzelli, Vice President of Analytics at Zementis.
This document provides an agenda for a data science conference. It includes sections on who the speakers will be from various organizations like IBM, China Mobile, and New Zealand Customs. It also outlines topics that will be discussed, including data science, predictive analytics applications in areas like customer retention and fraud detection, and case studies of success stories implementing predictive analytics.
This document summarizes a presentation about decision management systems. It discusses four key capabilities of decision management systems: 1) effectively managing decision logic, 2) deeply embedding analytics, 3) monitoring and managing decision performance, and 4) optimizing results. It also provides an overview of the broader IT context in which decision management systems operate and discusses product categories and vendors in the decision management field.
To ensure that Decision Management Systems are analytic and adaptive you must embed the results of data mining and predictive analytics in them. In this webinar you will learn what can be discovered using data mining and predictive analytic techniques and how this can be applied to the decision-making embedded in Decision Management Systems. The role of analytics in predicting risk, fraud and opportunity and the importance of continuous improvement and learning is also be covered.
The document discusses smart business processes and process optimization. It introduces the concept of a smart business process as one that is continually optimized using data-driven simulation, optimization, and real-time analytics. It provides an overview of Xerox services capabilities and the need to improve processes using data-driven approaches. Examples of process optimization research areas are discussed like simulation optimization, process flexibility, and buffer optimization. The strategic vision is to advance the science of data-driven process simulation optimization and demonstrate significant business impacts.
1) The document discusses adopting an effective decision making framework using common methods and processes. It emphasizes capturing analytic insight as an asset and improving collaboration.
2) Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is presented as a common language that can be used to model decisions. DMN provides constructs to define decisions, their requirements, and relationships in diagrams.
3) Examples of applying DMN to decisions around retail conversion rate are shown. Components such as decisions, data sources, and knowledge bases are modeled visually.
Process.Science Process Mining for Business IntelligenceProcess.Science
Transform Complexity into Clarity with Process.Science
At Process.Science, we empower medium to large enterprises to unlock the full potential of their operations through our cutting-edge AI-powered process mining solutions. Our innovative platform seamlessly integrates with industry-leading Business Intelligence tools like Power BI and Qlik Sense, providing a comprehensive and transparent view of your business processes.
Imagine being able to analyze your business processes in just two days without the burden of exhaustive staff interviews. With our user-friendly process apps, you can achieve this and more. Tailored for specific industries such as purchasing, production, and logistics, these apps transform complex data into actionable insights, allowing you to visualize real-time data, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and identify areas for operational improvement—the result? Enhanced efficiency and innovation within your enterprise.
Our AI-driven technology eliminates the traditional challenges associated with process mining. Gone are the days of tedious data compilation and subjective interviews; our solution delivers clarity with minimal effort. You can define and monitor KPIs & PPIs effortlessly while spotting emerging patterns and correlations in your data. Simulations enable you to assess the impact of potential process changes before implementation, giving you the confidence to make informed decisions.
Experience a significant reduction in lead times by pinpointing call orders that exceed standard durations and optimize your operations by detecting receivables closed erroneously. Ensure compliance with our targeted filters that highlight discrepancies between actual processes and standard procedures.
Let Process.Science bring transformative insights to your organization. With our commitment to clarity and confidence, we provide the tools needed to drive performance and operational excellence. No longer will data-driven decisions be out of reach; empower your enterprise with our process mining solutions and witness the evolution from complexity to clarity.
Ready to transform your business processes? Visit us at Process.Science (https://www.process-science.com) to learn more about our solutions or explore our products at Process.Science ps4pbi and Process.Science ps4qlk.
Explore the advantages of AI-driven process mining and take the first step towards operational excellence today!
Deploying analytics with a rules-based infrastructure, James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions, presentation at Predictive Analytics World, SF 2011. #pawcon
This ppt includes an overview of
-OPS Data Mining method,
-mining incomplete servey data,
-automated decision systems,
-real-time data warehousing,
-KPIs,
-Six Sigma Strategy and its possible intergation with Lean approach,
-summary of my OLAP practice with Northwind data set (Access)
Effectively capturing and managing requirements is critical in any IT project. Business analysts and others gathering requirements know how to capture and document processes, data and user tasks. But what about the decisions at the heart of your business? How can you effectively identify, document and model the repeatable, operational decisions crucial to success with business rules and predictive analytics? In this webinar we will share practical advice developed from real-world customer projects.
The Evolving Business Process Technology LandscapeSandy Kemsley
The document provides an overview of emerging business process technologies including social BPM, dynamic/adaptive case management, process mining, process simulation, and predictive process analytics. Case studies are presented on using social BPM to improve a mortgage process at Bank of Tennessee, dynamic case management of food safety inspections at the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, using process mining to optimize a procure-to-pay process at AkzoNobel, simulating distillery vat scheduling at William Grant & Sons, and the goal of using predictive analytics to prevent negative process outcomes.
This document discusses using workforce analytics to help human resource departments make better business decisions. It covers several topics:
1. The importance of taking an analytics-driven approach to human resources decisions, as exemplified by the story of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's baseball team.
2. Two common approaches organizations take - building an internal HR analytics capability, or deploying targeted analytics solutions to solve specific problems.
3. Keys to a successful analytics strategy include tying analytics to business goals, using a mix of technologies, and implementing in phases.
The document discusses how business process management suites can integrate with workforce management systems through simulation and scheduling. It provides an overview of how analytics data on work patterns and resource utilization can be extracted from a BPM system and fed into a scheduler to generate optimized resource schedules. The new schedules are then simulated back in the BPM system to evaluate performance and further optimize scheduling in an iterative process aimed at reducing staffing costs. As an example, one company saw a 10-20% reduction in staffing costs through this integrated approach.
The document discusses integrating business process management (BPM) with workforce management. It describes how analytics data from a BPM system about work patterns and resource utilization can be used to simulate and optimize scheduling. The simulation and scheduling tools work in a loop, with the scheduler generating resource schedules that are simulated and used to refine workload demand estimates. This integrated approach is best for structured, repeatable processes and large resource pools, and can potentially reduce staff costs by 10-20%. A case study shows how these tools identified over $1 million in benefits for a wholesale lockbox operation.
Is there a Role for Patterns in Enterprise Architecture?Nathaniel Palmer
Patterns can play an important role in enterprise architecture by providing reusable templates that help standardize processes and ensure consistency across complex systems. While patterns risk being applied too rigidly, when used flexibly they can help architects navigate complexity and promote interoperability.
The Future Of Bpm Six Trends Shaping Process ManagementNathaniel Palmer
1. The document discusses six trends shaping the future of business process management: transparency in management styles, new delivery methods like unified communications, disruptive technologies like software as a service, making systems smarter through human interaction management and artificial intelligence, more intelligent search capabilities, and improved security and role-based access control.
2. Emerging trends include more openness in sharing financial information with employees, new ways of accessing systems using mobile devices and instant messaging, and delivering business process management as a cloud-based service.
3. Systems are aiming to get smarter by learning from how users solve problems, allowing semantic searching for context rather than just variables, and using artificial intelligence techniques like training systems through observation instead of strict rules
Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital EcosystemsNathaniel Palmer
The document discusses digital ecosystems and proposes a solution for managing transactions within a digital business ecosystem network. It suggests using software agents to gather and store local knowledge, make external links, manage content, and process business activities and transactions. This would help create a connected network between service providers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in a way that is resistant to failures and able to handle the dynamic nature of content, links, and transactions over time.
Is there a Role for Patterns in Enterprise Architecture?Nathaniel Palmer
Patterns can play an important role in enterprise architecture by providing reusable templates that help standardize processes and ensure consistency across systems. While patterns risk being too rigid, they can help architects design solutions more efficiently when used as a starting point that is then customized to specific needs rather than followed strictly. Patterns work best as guidelines rather than rigid rules and are most useful when combined with principles that provide flexibility.
Improving Enterprise Performance using a Business Process Improvement DisciplineNathaniel Palmer
This document summarizes an initiative to improve the acquisition processes across the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) using business process improvement techniques. A project management team was formed to map the "as-is" acquisition processes, identify gaps, and develop improved "to-be" processes aligned with information technology systems. Common process improvement teams involving representatives from different FAS business lines were established. The goals are to streamline acquisition workflows, increase integration and data sharing between systems, and quantify benefits such as reduced cycle times and non-value added work.
Understanding Business Process Architecture to Enable Operational EfficiencyNathaniel Palmer
This document provides an introduction and disclaimer for a presentation on understanding business process architecture to enable operational efficiency. The presentation will take place April 21-23, 2008 at the Renaissance Washington, DC hotel. The presentation will discuss using business process architecture to link an organization's mission, values, competencies, risk and quality management to better serve customers. The models in the presentation are simplified examples for training purposes only.
Applying Agile Development Strategies to BPM InitiativesNathaniel Palmer
- The document discusses applying agile development strategies to business process management (BPM) initiatives. It outlines key drivers for agile development like volatile requirements and the need for tight project control.
- It analyzes popular agile methodologies like XP, Scrum, and FDD and determines that FDD is best suited for BPM due to its emphasis on solution definition by the business and high degree of collaboration.
- A case study is presented of Navy Federal Credit Union, which used rapid prototyping, FDD methodology and out-of-the-box BPM functionality to deploy key processes in 1-2 months. This demonstrated benefits of combining agile development with BPM.
Governance and Business Participation: The Key Requirements for Effective SOA...Nathaniel Palmer
The document discusses governance considerations for effective SOA deployment. It emphasizes the importance of business participation in governance activities to create business value and accelerate organizational change. Key aspects of governance include policies, roles, processes, metrics and tools to manage SOA implementation and ensure projects deliver expected outcomes.
The document discusses model-driven business process management (BPM) using template-driven approaches. It proposes that templates can [1] align business concepts with implementations through shared XML representations, [2] enhance interoperability by providing common understandings of data through contextual rules, and [3] support agile development through dynamically configurable templates. The OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) is presented as a template standard that can address interoperability challenges by leveraging context and making information exchanges more predictable and adaptable.
Realizing Successful Transformation Within Politically Charged EnvironmentsNathaniel Palmer
Robin Cody, Chief Information Officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), presented on BART's Business Advancement Program (BAP) to transform its technology and business processes. The $40 million, 5-year program implemented new enterprise resource planning software to modernize systems for human resources, payroll, finance, maintenance and more. It aimed to improve operations, increase productivity and achieve a financial payback. BART analyzed its current systems and processes, selected and implemented new software, and changed organizational culture through the program.
Understanding and Applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)Nathaniel Palmer
TOGAF is a framework for enterprise architecture developed and supported by The Open Group. It provides best practices for developing architectures and includes components such as the Architecture Development Method, reference models and a resource base. The latest version, TOGAF 8, focuses on aligning architecture with business needs and making TOGAF easier to use. TOGAF certification and training are available for individuals and organizations.
Why Enterprises Should Invest Money in EA Transformation FrameworksNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise architecture transformation is essential for businesses to reduce costs and increase agility. The current state of most enterprise IT architectures, with hundreds of isolated applications integrated through APIs, leads to high costs, low business agility, and difficulties changing or exiting legacy systems. Computer science provides the solution of enterprise service-oriented architecture (ESOA) which standardizes integration and allows reusable components. The ESOA Framework (ESOAFTM) is a reference architecture that guides enterprises along a gradual transition from their current application-centric "Legacy Enterprise" state to the desired fully ESOA-based "Elegant Enterprise" state. This transformation is expected to reduce total cost of ownership by 30% within a year.
Transitioning Enterprise Architectures to Service Oriented ArchitecturesNathaniel Palmer
This document discusses transitioning from an enterprise architecture to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It defines what an SOA is and why organizations transition to one. It then describes how to identify the key components of an SOA by analyzing business processes, including identifying roles, objects, boundaries, potential services, and interfaces. This allows an organization to develop IT services based on relationships between business actors and realize those services through platform-independent interfaces.
BPM & Workflow in the New Enterprise ArchitectureNathaniel Palmer
The document discusses workflow and business process management standards. It defines key standards like BPMN, XPDL, BPEL, Wf-XML, and BPAF. These standards address different aspects of modeling, executing, and monitoring business processes. The goal of these standards is to provide interoperability and allow business-level control and agility when managing business processes across systems.
What is Possible vs What is Useful: Finding the Right Balance in Process Mode...Nathaniel Palmer
Process modeling involves modeling business processes at a large scale across an organization. It requires top management support, proper project management, information providers, modeling tools and languages, and consideration of economics, governance, strategy, and maintenance over time.
What Every Enterprise Architect Needs to Know About BPMNathaniel Palmer
Business Process Management (BPM) involves methods and tools to improve business process performance, maintain compliance, and identify an organization's processes. BPM is defined as the logical sequence of activities necessary to manipulate an economically relevant object toward an overarching goal of creating customer value. The document recommends starting a BPM initiative by choosing a single pilot process to test out BPM first before broader implementation.
Department of the Interior’s Methodology for Business Transformation (MBT)Nathaniel Palmer
1. The document summarizes the Department of the Interior's (DOI) methodology for business architecture transformation called the Methodology for Business Transformation (MBT).
2. The MBT is a multi-step process that includes analyzing stakeholders, business processes, current IT systems, and defining target business and technology architectures.
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Data Mining and Analytics
1. Robert M. Shapiro Senior Vice President Global 360, Inc. SessionTitle: Analytics and Data Mining Welcome to Transformation and Innovation 2007 The Business Transformation Conference
3. Why Care About Analytics and Data Mining? When Workflow Management Systems first began to proliferate (1990s) there was little attention paid to the data generated by the running processes. Most thought this as an audit trail, not a source of information for process improvement. We now understand that the historical record contains valuable information essential to a well orchestrated continuous process improvement program. Correctly designed analytics is the starting point for providing business process intelligence. The analytics drives both real-time monitoring and predictive optimization of the executing B usiness P rocess M anagement S ystem.
4. Overview Business Operations Control Event Detection &Correlation Predictive Simulation Data Mining Optimization Event Bus ERP BPM ECM Legacy EAI Custom Historical Analytics Real Time Dashboards Alerts & Actions
8. Analytics Architecture Publish AE Relational Database Events OLAP and DataMining Databases Process Analysis Engine Queries Context Data Client Reports Participants, UDFs, XPDL Staging and Event Queue Tables Fact and Dimension Tables Process Engine Administration Controls Analysis Engine Exposes UDFs Triggers Cube Processing Monitors DBs Web Service Business Operations Historical Analytics
9. Process Analytics Features Fast analysis of process, activity & SLA statistics, quality and labor information Drill down / slice and dice – Explore data from different perspectives Benefits Business process intelligence Identify process improvement areas End to end process visibility Problem You have to know where to look in the hypercube.
11. Actions & Alerts Process Metrics Action Schedule Rules Engine Email and Cellphone notification Process Event Triggers Goals Thresholds Risk Mitigation KPI Evaluation Web Service Call or Execute Script Actions
12. Simulation Why would you want to build simulation models? A simulation model lets you do what-ifs What if I changed my staff schedules What if I bought a faster check sorter What if the number of applications increased dramatically because of a marketing campaign The simulation results predict the effect on critical KPIs such as end-to-end cycle time and cost per processed application. Hence simulation plays an important role in continuous process improvement.
13. Key Simulation Factors Options Time Frame, Animation Update Frequency, Exposed Fields Activities Duration, Performers, Decisions Pre and Post Assignments, Pre and PostScripts Use of Historical Data for decisions and durations Arrivals Process, Start Activity Batch, Field Values, Pattern and Repeat Use of Historical Data for work load distributions over time Data Fields Participants Schedules, Roles Played, Details Roles Schedule Definitions
14. Review of Analytics, BAM and Simulation A stream of events produced by a variety of business process engines (ERP, Supply Chain Management, BPMS enactment) is fed to an Analytics engine which transforms the event data into usable information. A Business Activity Monitoring module updates in real time a set of KPI indicators and using a Rules Engine applied to these indicators, generates Alerts and Actions which inform managers of critical situations and alter the behavior of the running processes. A simulation tool, using the historical data, provides What-If analysis in support of continuous process improvement. Integrated with a Work Force Management system it enables optimization of staff schedules. But designing the what-if scenarios can be a challenging and labor-intensive task for a specialist.
15. Automatic Optimization Automatic Optimization uses Analytics and Simulation to generate and evaluate proposals for achieving a set of goals. Analysis of Process structure in conjunction with historical data about processing delays and resource availability permits the intelligent exploration of improvement strategies. Coupled with WorkForce Management technology, this approach helps optimize staff schedules.
16. Optimization BottleNeck Analysis Determine task most understaffed Cross-train most idle, feasible person Alternatively hire new one Predict (simulate altered scenario) Wait Time Reduction by Load Balancing Analyze current situation Predict (simulate) Alter scenario Propose measure for improvement
18. Throughput: Unresolved Work Objects Work objects are piling up as long as workitems arrive (Cycle times go up continually) One region in particular is understaffed Number of unresolved work objects is limited (Upper bound for cycle times) After Load Balancing Before Load Balancing
19. Resource Utilization (Idle Times) Quite unbalanced More balanced Before Load Balancing After Load Balancing
21. Judging the Effect: Throughput Analysis After role addition (e.g. cross training): After resource addition: Initially:
22. Review of Automated Optimization Technology Optimization, using goals formulated as KPI’s, can analyze historical information and propose what changes are likely to help attain these goals. It can systematically evaluate the proposed changes, using the simulation tool as a component. This can be performed in a totally automated manner, with termination upon satisfying the goal or recognizing that no proposed change results in further improvement. Staff optimization, focusing on end-to-end cycle time and processing cost as the KPI’s, is one example of the application of this technology.
23. Data Mining There are three stages: Data New Data Data Mining Apply To Predict Explore Data Build Mining Model Deploy Patterns
24. Process versus Content Data Mining We focus on the data generated by typical computer-based business processes, using Process Intelligence as the lens through which to view the data. This process view is critical in developing a mining structure and mining models that expose correlations between Key Performance Indicators and other factors such as work item attributes, resource schedules, arrival patterns and other external business factors.
25. Building a Mining Structure A Mining Structure is built by selecting tables and views from a relational database or OLAP cube and specifying the input and predictable columns (variables/attributes) in the selected tables/views. Choosing the input columns requires an analysis of the data. Here is an example based on the Microsoft Data Mining software.
30. Can Data Mining Technology Help Us? A tornado has knocked out the application processing center in Tulsa. The event stream provides the staff change info to the BAM component. How can we use a trained data mining model to rapidly determine how the temporary loss of staff will impact the end-to-end processing time for applications? What will the cost be for processing a loan application under these circumstances?
33. Can Data Mining Technology Help Us? A marketing campaign is expected to increase the number of low end loan applications next month. Simulation-based forecasting could be used to optimize work force management, but the simulation model must have accurate information about how long each step in the process takes and using average duration values based on history will not do. How can data mining provide better estimates for durations based on line-of-business attributes of the applications?
37. Making Predictions using Simulation and Data Mining Simulation and Data Mining can both be used to make predictions. Are they competing or complementary technologies? We have already discussed the role of Data Mining in the preparation of information required for accurate simulations. Apart from this, there are major differences. The simulation model must be a sufficiently accurate representation of the collection of processes being executed. It can make predictions for situations not previously encountered so long as the underlying processes have not changed. The Data Mining predictions are based on a statistical analysis of what has already happened. A trained mining model assumes the historical patterns are still valid. There are major differences in performance. Simulation is computationally intensive. It takes significant time to obtain predictions. In Data Mining, the training is computationally intensive. Once a model is trained predictions are extremely fast. Periodic retraining may be required to keep the model accurate.
38. Summary BPMS generate event streams that provide the Analytics Data needed for Business Activity Monitoring in real time and Continuous Process Improvement . A customizable Optimizer , employing Data Mining and Simulation tool kits, derives from the Analytics Data a stream of recommendations for improving the business operations, including: Redeployment of resources Process changes Optimization of business rules The Data Mining component supports an alternative approach to prediction under changing business circumstances and generates critical information for use by the Simulator. It also provides Process Discovery capabilities useful in Process Re-Design.
39. Thank You Robert M. Shapiro Senior Vice President Global 360, Inc. Contact Information: 617-823-1055 [email_address]
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