XBPR®

XBPR® stands for eXtensible Business Process Repository.

What is XBPR®? (detailed)

XBPR® can overcome the Business-IT Consulting Gap.

XBPR® is a semantic enterprise application integration platform. This platform organizes in a semantically coherent form all enterprise information (from business processes, organization structures, legacy systems and applications) and makes it accessible and usable to application modules through simple APIs.

The Event-Driven Process Chain template (others can also be easily implemented) is used as the semantic model to represent and organize the enterprise information, and it is implemented through a layer of ontologies. This template describes the enterprise as a collection of business processes (the integration of organization, product and services, data, applications and process chains concepts). All information sources are mapped to elements of this model.

This model provides the sole entry point for enterprise information access. Through this model, applications retrieve context-based information (information and business rules), reason over data using business rules and constraints, and infer information (relations between data) that was not explicitly modeled.

XBPR® supports the definition and analysis phases of the information system’s relationships and automatically carries out the development and integration phases of information sources and the software applications.

What it does?

Holy Grail of BPM is so-called bridging (or closing) the gap between business and IT. The gap means a situation where business submits requirements which are fuzzy from IT point of view, IT implements them as good as it can, but eventually, after some months, business gets not what was expected. BPM copes with this problem by:

  • directly executable business processes diagrams ( “What You See Is What You Run”);

  • rapid prototyping and short development cycles (supported by XBPR®).

In short, the former knows well “what for” but little about “how” and viceversa for the latter. Although most business consultants are aware of what business processes are and recognize their role in business transformation, they have little knowledge about current BPM practice.

A more efficient and scalable solution, named XBPR®, provides a logical model capable to catch, store and transform business knowledge in a normalized format so that IT consultant can access to knowledge according to models/standards needed.

Who's it for?

  • Business Consultants: they can modify the applications behavior directly operating on the Organizational Repository. They can offer consultancy regardless of BPA or BPM vendors adopted by their stakeholders.

  • System integrator: they can use contextual data and information about organizational structures that perform processes. They can manage the processes regardless of the chosen workflow engines or process editors.

  • SMB: they can monitor the business processes through indexes embedded into their management information system and through periodical reports. They can manage in one application processes, activities and business organization charts.

XBPR® allows: BPM vendors to improve selling proposition and acquire market share, System Integrators to enter new markets, lower costs & risk, improve margins  and SMB to manage in only one application processes, activities and business organization charts.

Expandability

PRP - Process Repository Profiler

PRP is an Eclipse plug-in integrated with XBPR®. It supports the analyst and IT Architect with the composition of free semantic queries using an advanced interface capable to cross reference data and relationships present in the base of the organizational knowledge. Outcomes can be presented in charts, texts, table and XML format.

Functional Specs:

  • drag-and-Drop interface for SPARQL query building;

  • export of query results in rtf, pdf, html, text, excel;

  • integration with BIRT reporting system;

  • extensive system parametrization through XML configuration files.

Licensing

Software licenses available:

  • Licensing based on Server power (CPU);

  • OEM licensing and dealers partnership;

Professional services: customization and integrated solution development;

  • Software as a Service (Saas).

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