Success by design

Model, analyze & optimize your organization

Contents
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02
Intro
Capture all the dimensions of your business
04 Streamline your business processes
06 Bridge the business/IT communication divide
08 Manage your enterprise architecture
10 Collaborate through a central repository
12 Communicate your models effortlessly
14 Power ongoing improvement and agility
16 Trust in the proven solution
Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite
Success by design

Casewise Corporate Modeler is an enterprise

modeling solution for streamlining business
processes, optimizing use of resources and
aligning IT systems with business goals.

By providing a 360° view of the business, the suite

enables teams to design, simulate and implement
improvements that cut costs, increase productivity
and align the business to reach new targets.

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Enterprise modeling
Capture all the dimensions of your business
Before you can improve efficiency
within your enterprise, or deliver
strategic change, you first need a
clear view of the ‘as-is’ situation.
This means capturing and analyzing
all the dimensions of your business.
Within your enterprise there are
business processes – the way that work
is performed. There are the people who
perform these processes, the locations
where they occur and the applications,
hardware and data utilized. All these
dimensions of business are interlinked.
Which means that changing one will
have an impact on several others.
It sounds simple enough, yet capturing all
these dimensions of business is far from
easy; many are implied, most undocumented.
To truly understand the current situation,
and to design and implement effective
improvements, you need a multi-
dimensional view of the business.
Capture
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Evaluate the ‘as-is’ situation
Corporate Modeler enables your teams
to model, analyze and evaluate all of the
dimensions of your business within one
collaborative tool.
Through clear visual modeling, users can
capture organizational structures, end-to-
end business processes, associated costs
and supporting IT and data structures.
Uniquely, these dimensions can be
linked together to highlight relationships
and dependencies within the business;
connections that must be identified in order
to know the impact of any proposed change.
Corporate Modeler also provides the
flexibility to model your unique business
drivers, such as new service offerings,
industry regulations or key performance
indicators (KPIs). From here, teams can
design the effect these drivers will have
on your enterprise.
Experiment with
‘what-if?’ scenarios
Armed with a model of the complete ‘as-is’
situation, Corporate Modeler enables
business and IT planners to experiment
with ‘what-if?’ scenarios for change. Users
can see the impact of proposed changes
to resources, process flows and IT systems
to formulate the best business blueprints.
Design & implement
‘to-be’ improvements
After testing the impact of various
‘what-if?’ scenarios, teams can finalize,
validate and implement ‘to-be’ models for
enterprise improvement. Web publishing
communicates these ‘to-be’ models across
implementation teams to ensure a shared
understanding, while technology links
kick-start any database and application
development work required. With these
features and more, Corporate Modeler
provides the clarity, understanding and
collaboration that enables your teams
to deliver fast, effective change.
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drivers «

Capture links and dependencies within the business

Model the connections between people, processes and
technologies and the impact of new business drivers.

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Business process analysis
Streamline your business processes
Business processes - the way that
work is performed in the organization -
drive your enterprise and differentiate
you from the competition. They link
you to your customers and suppliers
and are the means by which you
create value and assess performance.
Yet, in many cases, business processes
remain invisible, fragmented and,
more often than not, accidental.
Corporate Modeler is the fast, easy
and collaborative way to capture
and improve ‘end-to-end’ business
processes for a competitive edge.
Through its multi-user repository
– Corporate Exchange – teams can
understand, simulate and optimize
the flow of work across departments
and suppliers to enhance customer
experiences, implement ‘best-practices’
and align operations to reach new goals.
Streamlin
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Find and eliminate
inefficiencies to cut costs
Many processes are established quickly
with little thought for their strategic
importance. As a result, today’s processes
often contain inefficiencies - such as
bottlenecks and re-entering of data.
With some processes being performed
hundreds, if not thousands, of times
each day, even the smallest of these
inefficiencies can cause major overspend.
Corporate Modeler’s clear visual
notation helps teams to quickly locate
inefficiencies in your processes. What’s
more, animated simulation highlights
delays and poor resource utilization
through automatic statistical analysis.
Once you have located inefficiencies,
your teams can collaborate through
Corporate Modeler to design, simulate
and implement change that eliminates
unnecessary costs to increase bottom
line results.
Enhance customer experiences
for a competitive edge
Today’s customers, whether internal or
external, simply want fast, easy access
to your services. With this in mind,
Corporate Modeler enables you to analyze
your processes from a customer’s
perspective - tracing the route of work
from initial inquiry right through to final
delivery of product or service. In this way
you can see the wider impact of internal
inefficiencies, and streamline customer
experiences to deliver a competitive edge.
Simulate ‘what-if?’ scenarios
...100% risk-free
By simulating your process designs
before implementation, Corporate Modeler
takes the risk out of process improvement.
Simulation enables users to formulate
the best, most workable process
designs by balancing cost, risk, value
and time-to-market. Simulation then
demonstrates the need for process
improvement to senior decision makers.
 Business goals
& overviews

‘End-to-end’
business processes

Individual
procedures

Manage your processes

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Drill-down to analyze ‘end-to-end’ business processes
at different levels of detail. Capture key descriptions,
costs and metrics about each process step.

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IT architecture
Bridge the Business / IT communication divide
Technology supports, and often defines,
how business processes are performed
in the real world. Yet, during design, clear
communication between business and IT
planners can be notoriously difficult.
As a result, IT teams often find
themselves delivering against
inconsistent, out-of-context business
requirements. More often than not, this
leads to costly reworking and delays.
Corporate Modeler eliminates this
problem by bridging the communication
divide between the business & IT people
in the organization. It integrates business
and IT modeling techniques in one,
collaborative tool.
With Corporate Modeler, technical and
non-technical people can work together
to model how IT currently supports
the business, then design, validate and
implement integrated solutions.
Bridge
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Get IT systems right first time Implement processes
via third party links
To develop, integrate or procure the right
IT systems, everyone involved needs a
clear view of how the business operates.
With Corporate Modeler, users can model
‘end-to-end’ business processes, the
people involved, how systems currently
support operations and the data structures Corporate Modeler Links provide the
used. Plus, user-defined properties enable missing link between business design
you to include custom information that is and IT implementation.
central to your unique projects.
Business processes and supporting data
Align business and architectures that have been designed
IT architectures in Corporate Modeler can be effortlessly
transferred into leading database design
and application development tools.
By integrating process, IT architecture and
This ensures accuracy when
data modeling in one solution, Corporate
Modeler enables alignment between implementing your models and
accelerates the development process.
business and IT designs.
Bi-directional linking means that, in
Users can define the precise interactions
addition, existing data architectures and
between people, systems and data that
application workflows can be imported
make processes happen – both when
modeling the ‘as-is’ situation and when into Corporate Modeler for analysis,
designing ‘to-be’ improvements. improvement and alignment with
new business processes and goals.
Business
requirements

System
workflows

Data structures

IT architectures
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Align processes, systems & data

Ensure IT applications, hardware and data
structures support your business processes
and, in turn, your business goals.

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Modeling frameworks
Manage your enterprise architecture
An enterprise architecture model provides
a clear blueprint for your business.
It accelerates IT projects, highlights
inefficiencies, increases agility and
provides a platform for aligning the
business to strategy.
Enterprise architecture frameworks
provide a way to structure enterprise
architecture knowledge within your
models. Depending on the scope of
your project, this knowledge can range
from strategic goals right through to
IT networks and data structures.
Armed with this holistic view, managers
can make the right strategic and tactical
decisions by knowing the full ‘ripple’ effects
of any proposed changes to the enterprise.
Manage
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Your guide to
enterprise architecture
The most widely adopted enterprise
architecture framework is the Zachman
Framework, developed by John Zachman
(more info available at www.zifa.com).
This is the foundation for the easy-to-
use Casewise Framework for fast, useful
architecture modeling.
The Casewise Framework is the ideal
starting point for any modeling initiative.
It guides users through modeling with
advice, templates and proven examples.
What’s more, The Casewise Framework
will act as the front-end to Corporate
Modeler itself - providing fast and easy
access to modeling templates, and
guidance for your architecture team.
Use any framework,
or create your own
Because Corporate Modeler is powered by
a fully extensible repository - Corporate
Exchange - you can model any dimension
of your enterprise architecture in any way.
Thus you can also utilize any enterprise
architecture framework. This is because
modeling objects (representing the
dimensions of your business), their
properties (information about dimensions)
and how they are linked together can all
be fully, and easily, customized.
As a result, Corporate Modeler does not
restrict users to rigid, predefined model
structures. Instead it provides a ‘future-
proof’ solution that can be customized
for any current or future framework.
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A blueprint for your business

The Casewise Framework guides you
through capturing the essentials of your
business - who, what, where, when, how
and why - from key perspectives.

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Repository-based modeling
Collaborate through a central repository
Corporate Exchange connects multiple
Corporate Modeler users together to
enable faster, coordinated process
and IT improvements.
Project managers, business analysts,
IT architects and operational staff can
all work together to model the ‘as-is’
and ‘to-be’ situations.
Where some modeling tools restrict
this vital collaboration with file check-
in/check-out issues, Corporate Exchange
ensures everyone’s work is immediately
available to the user community. This is
because Corporate Exchange is powered
by a scalable, relational database.
Collabora
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Teamwork across
different locations
To manage change in today’s global
enterprises, Corporate Exchange offers
team collaboration across different
company sites and even countries.
Users can work together on central
models through on-line collaboration
and off-line data transfers.
In addition, sub-modeling features enable
easy synchronization of modeling work
for those working on the move.
Protect valuable knowledge
in a robust database
Knowledge of your resources, processes
and systems is highly valuable to the
enterprise. Hence Corporate Exchange
stores and connects your modeling
work in one robust database. A range of
security options help you protect vital
models by granting the right access
levels to different audiences.
Ensure consistency between
business and IT modeling
If business and IT designs do not fit
together, blueprints for change are
rendered ineffective. With Corporate
Modeler, different users working with
different modeling techniques can share
a common library of information to
eliminate this problem. Users can share
objects representing the dimensions
of your business - your processes,
organizations, locations, applications etc.
to align organizational, business process,
IT architecture and data designs.
Update your models
in an instant
With Corporate Exchange, updating
models to reflect changes in the business
is easy. Any change to a dimension of
your business (for example, a department)
needs only to be made once in your
model. All other occurrences of that
dimension are automatically updated.
This eliminates the need to manually
update hundreds of individual diagrams
and relationship maps.
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Organizational IT architectures
structures

Data structures Responsibilities

& links

Data flows

ate
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Bringing change together

Share modeling objects through Corporate Exchange
to ensure consistency between business and IT design.

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Documentation & publishing
Communicate your models effortlessly
The knowledge you capture using
Corporate Modeler is highly valuable
to many different groups within the
enterprise. Front-line staff benefit from
process guidance and instructions, IT
teams can plan more effectively with a
clear view of IT assets, and senior managers
can make more informed decisions
through an online enterprise model.
To deliver this value, Corporate
Publisher transforms your models into
comprehensive, interlinked websites
- ready for the corporate intranet -
or illustrated Microsoft Word® reports.
Through easy-to-use wizards, Corporate
Publisher offers the easy and professional
way to communicate how your organization
works, and how it could be improved.
Commun
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Support staff with online
process know-how
Optimizing business process designs
without communicating and publishing
new procedures can be highly ineffective,
resulting in employees following old,
inefficient procedures. With Corporate
Publisher, you can train and support staff
in efficient processes by publishing your
models on the corporate intranet.
Staff can follow clear process flow
diagrams, and access detailed descriptions,
documents and forms, to enhance their
productivity in day-to-day tasks.
Publishing ‘best-practice’ processes
increases consistency of service, helps
ensure regulatory compliance, means
new starters can be trained faster,
and eliminates delays caused by lack
of knowledge. It also means staff can
understand what role they play in the
‘bigger picture’ of the business.
Gain feedback & win
buy-in for business
and IT improvements
Corporate Publisher helps you to
overcome resistance to change by taking
an inclusive, communicative approach to
business improvement.
With Corporate Publisher you can
communicate different views of your
‘to-be’ models in the most appropriate
way for different audiences.
As a result, senior managers, IT experts
and front-line staff can all understand and
provide feedback on the feasibility and
impact of your designs.
After taking these key views into account,
you can publish your finalized ‘to-be’
models to win buy-in for change from
across the business.
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Enhance staff performance

nicate
Generate an enterprise portal to deliver the
right process know-how, documents and forms
to the right people - all via your intranet.

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Reusing models
Power ongoing improvement and agility
No organization can afford to stand
still in today’s more competitive
climates. Corporate Exchange helps your
organization stay ahead of the game by
powering a whole range of business and
IT improvement projects.
Knowledge of your people, processes,
resources, systems and data - and the
links and dependencies between them
- kick-starts virtually any business and IT
change initiatives. It eliminates the need
to recapture the ‘as-is’ situation each time.
Plus, ‘what-if?’ models arm senior
managers with a clear view of the
impact of any proposed change. Thus
empowering them to make the right
strategic and tactical decisions - all by
leveraging existing models in a 100%
‘risk-free’ environment.
Power
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Increase responsiveness
to change
Change is inevitable in any modern
organization. The introduction of new
products, services, regulations or goals
will require changes to your business
processes. Rather than spend the time
and money to recapture your processes
each time, Corporate Exchange provides
a knowledge bank of your enterprise
processes, ready-to-go. Then, using
Corporate Modeler, your teams can
redesign and document processes
rapidly and successfully.
Identify & roll-out
‘best-practices’
During your modeling work, it is likely
that you will identify highly efficient ways
to perform certain tasks. These ‘best-
practice’ processes can easily be reused
from your Corporate Exchange repository
and rolled-out across other parts of the
business. In this way, the reusability of
Corporate Exchange helps you maximize
the value from your modeling work to
enhance enterprise-wide efficiency.
Accelerate major
management initiatives
Casewise Accelerators extend the
Corporate Modeler Suite to offer
complete support for specific
management challenges - such as
Balanced Scorecard and Strategic IT
Architecture Management.
Accelerators reuse your existing modeling
work but add major new functionality
including performance measurement and
enterprise portal generation. They provide
an online focal point to communicate and
support major goals.
In addition to Accelerators, we also
provide a range of Casewise Extensions.
These products provide the foundation
for completing tactical projects by
offering pre-built models, templates
and resources for users.
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The hub of change

Your repository of enterprise architecture knowledge
kick-starts a whole range of business and IT projects.

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Services & company profile
Trust in the proven solution
Every day, the Corporate Modeler Suite is
chosen by organizations around the world
for its unique combination of flexibility,
team support and ease-of-use.
Advanced HTML publishing, a fully
extensible repository, and the clearest
visual notation on the market are just a
few of the reasons why Corporate Modeler
is the choice of today’s forward thinking
enterprises.
So whatever your project, wherever you
are, you can be sure you have made the
best decision when you invest in Casewise
software and supporting services.
Trust
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Services designed
for your challenges
At Casewise, we understand that
improving organizations is not easy.
For this reason, we have distilled years
of process and IT project experience
into services created for your projects.
Our training programs get your teams
up-and-running with Corporate Modeler
in days. Our enabling consultants work
with you to establish the right modeling
notations and approaches. And our
technical assistance teams support you
at every step of the way.
What’s more, through our global
network of consulting partners, we can
offer you industry-leading expertise for
any business challenge, no matter what
industry your organization is in.
On top of all this, we hold regular user
group events where you can pick up
tips and advice from Corporate Modeler
users around the world.
A global market-leader
Casewise has been a recognized
market-leader in enterprise modeling
since its inception in 1989.
Constantly rated as visionary by leading
technology analysts, Casewise has grown
rapidly across the globe - predominately
through word of mouth.
Today, over 5000 organizations in
40 countries choose our modeling
software to manage successful business
and IT improvements. These include
leading names in financial, telecoms,
pharmaceutical, healthcare, government,
retail, media and manufacturing industries.
With innovative products, proven service
offerings and solution partners based
throughout the world, Casewise is the name
you can trust to deliver success, by design.
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