ER/Studio Business Architect

Mapping Complex Data Structures to Leverage Enterprise Data as an Asset

With increasing reliance on multiple data sources, companies of all sizes are rapidly facing more complex, multi-layered and cross-platform challenges when trying to locate, understand, and accurately interpret essential data. In the healthcare sector alone, this challenge costs an average of $70 million every year.

Data management professionals need to find answers that:

Make it easy to capture and document complex data structures
Easily determine logical and physical relationships between data, people, and processes
Clearly and effectively communicate data throughout an organization

47% of healthcare executives say their organization cannot interpret and translate their information into actionable insight.

How do data management professionals fully embrace their enterprise data environment to maximize the value of data governance initiatives?

ER/Studio Business Architect offers business process and conceptual modeling for top-down database design to align with business goals and regulatory requirements.

With ER/Studio Business Architect, companies can easily document and understand their present day business processes, making it easy to examine, analyze, and recommend changes. After analysis, companies continue to use ER/Studio Business Architect to design and codify changes to processes, and even manage and communicate interim processes used to affect those changes.

Using the conceptual modeling capabilities in ER/Studio Business Architect, it is easy to create a high-level visual representation of a business. This easily-understood model helps data professionals get buy-in and clariﬁcation on requirements as they begin a top-down database or business process design.

ER/Studio Business Architect makes it possible to do things such as identify all business processes that modify customer data, or determine which business users will lose productivity when a system outage occurs.

With ER/Studio Business Architect, business and technical users can more effectively collaborate to ensure compliance with internal business standards and external mandatory regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or Basel II.

Conceptual Modeling
Conceptual Model Creation	Support for high-level conceptual modeling using subject areas, business entities, interactions and relationships
Relationship Traceability	Model links between conceptual or process modeling elements
Conceptual Model Export	Export conceptual models to ER/Studio Data Architect to create logical models
Business Process Modeling
Process Model Creation	Process model using elements such as sequences, tasks, swim lanes, start events and gateways
BPMN Compliance	Optional automatic validation of process diagrams to ensure compliance with the BPMN specification
Embedded Sub-process support	Flexibility in diagramming and a workable visual diagram by embedding collapsible sub-processes within a business process
Impact Analysis Reporting
Multi-object, Multi-level Reporting	Show interrelationships between process, data, stewardship, business rule, diagram usage, heritage and connecting objects
Report Filtering	Filter reports based on type of relationship, object type, text strings including wildcard matching
Usage (CRUD) Reporting
Line Processes with Data	Model to identify what processes create, read, update and delete data objects
CRUD Reporting	Report processes that affect data and the type of effect
Report Filtering	Reports shown across object types or can be filtered based on individual object types such as tasks and business processes
Business Artifact Modeling
External Data Objects	Support for data storage objects to represent databases, file systems or other data storage mechanisms
Business Elements	Capture business terms to enforce naming standards or to build logical models
Business Rules	Incorporate policies, practices or formulae related to business processes
Business Units	Incorporate business units such as sales, human resources or accounting into process models
Stewardship	Support for organizational roles to own specific processes
Powerful and Intuitive User Interface
Organizational Hierarchies	Project-based tree hierarchy to group multiple model types and diagrams to align with business initiatives or organizations
Flexible Interface	Full support for multiple property editors, tab navigation, undo-redo, collapsible nested views and zoom
Grid Editing	Alternative to hierarchical tree view to display large number of objects or business rules for easy viewing
Import/Export
Export across multiple formats	Share in supported formats including xml, csv, html, pdf, rtf and jpeg
Visio Import	Configurable capabilities to import diagrams from Microsoft Visio
Robust Architecture
Separation of Data and Display	Core data can be manipulated and displayed in a variety of formats speeding performance and increasing knowledge transfer
Object Reuse	Process and enterprise objects can be reused across multiple diagrams allowing single version of truth
Standards-based	Based on Industry standards: Eclipse based, XML file formats from published Schema, BPMN modeling notations

Benefits Summary

Business Process Modeling Based on the BPMN Standard
Conceptual Modeling for Top-Down Database Design
Align Technology with Business Goals
Compliance with Government Regulations

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