Processes
Organisations today are under constant pressure to improve quality
in every aspect of their operations. Competition and globalisation
is forcing companies to become more customer focused. Efficient,
profitable organisations understand their operational processes.
Organisations that are intending to prosper are constantly improving
their processes. Corporations such as GE, Motorola and Honeywell
have all adopted Six Sigma Plus as their "executive genetic
code". Process implementation, control, measurement and
improvement are core facets of Six Sigma Plus. Procession;
Process TOA uniquely supports the operational aspects of
Six Sigma Plus methodologies.
Operational
Processes
The reality of business processes is that no one truly knows
the full scope of a process, the ownership of the process or
the return on implementation and improvement. Knowledge of that
quality is only acquired after the process has been deployed
and monitored. Procession TOA enables segments
of a process to be deployed from a basis of incomplete knowledge.
It enables operational questions to be answered by monitoring
and feedback. As a result the operational managers can improve
the process, expand its scope and realise a return based on
a clear understanding of the benefits. Procession TOA
enables this without interruption to the business, since
we realised from an early stage that large-scale changes to
business would make any previous measurements irrelevant.
Standards,
Scalability and Performance
Procession TOA is built upon industry standards.
Our business focus is to apply BPM technology to support the
operational aspects of Six Sigma Plus. The architecture uses
a best-of-breed RDBMS (Oracle) and secures platform independence
by utilising Java and J2EE application servers. These architecture
choices have enabled us to focus on achieving fault-tolerance,
horizontal and vertical scalability and high availability at
every level within the architecture, whilst still enabling entry-level
deployments to be achieved with modest resources.
Integration
and Transformation
Without integration, business processes are isolated. Without
transformation, flexibility is sacrificed. Two components of
Procession enable processes to manage interactions with external
systems. The Procession SSXMQ component with its built-in SOAP
and Transactional Conduits ensures that integration with external
systems can be performed at the process layer. The Procession
Transformation Engine ensures that processes can control data
transformation by mapping. This dual approach enables the process
designer to implement integrated processes without the expense
of custom adapters.
Architecture
