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Business Process Management (BPM)

A field of management focused on aligning organizations with the wants and needs of customers (internal or external). It is a gestalt view of management that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. Business process management attempts to improve processes continuously.

Business Requirement Specifications (BRS)

A document that contains the basic requirements of customer that are to be developed as software project cost schedule target dates.

Component

Applications in the R/3 System are combinations of components. The components are held in a hierarchy, which can be displayed in the R/3 Reference Model, that describes the functional scope of the applications in a top-down fashion. The number of components and the number of levels an application has in the hierarchical structure depend on its functional scope.

Enterprise Area

Part of a business area. An enterprise area is a grouping of organization units that have closely linked work and contribute to discrete business processes. The Enterprise Area is the first level of the
Process Flow View within the Business Navigator. Examples are Procurement, Logistics, Organization and Human Resources, and External Accounting. Also called Enterprise process area.

Event-controlled process chain (EPC)

A graphical display form used in the R/3 Reference Model to describe in detail the logical sequence of business functions and events carried out by the R/3 System. The EPC is the fourth level of the model and
may be accessed by drilldown from the scenarios and processes.

QDAR

An acronym for “Question, Data set, Analysis, and Report / Revision”, which are the four primary steps to any business analysis.

Requirements Analysis

A document that determines the needs or conditions to meet for a new or altered product, taking account of the possibly conflicting requirements of the various stakeholders, such as beneficiaries or users.

Software Requirement Specification (SRS)

A document detailing the functionality, interfaces, performance, attributes, and design constraints of a project.

STAIR

An acronym for “State the problem, Define the Tools, Algorithm (procedure), Implement, and Revise,” which are steps that can be used to theoretically solve any problem.

Structured Analysis (SA) / Structured Design (SD)

Methods for analyzing and converting business requirements into specifications and ultimately, computer programs, hardware configurations and related manual procedures.

Zero One or Infinity (ZOI)

A rule is a rule of thumb in software code suggesting that arbitrary limits on the number of instances of a particular entity should not be allowed. Specifically, that an entity should either be forbidden entirely (zero), should be allowed once (one), or any number (infinity) should be allowed. Here are some examples of the zero or infinity rule.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a field of management focused on aligning organizations with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic management approach that promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. Business process management attempts to improve processes continuously.

A business process is “a collection of related, structured activities that produce a service or product that meet the needs of a client.” These processes are critical to any organization as they generate revenue and often represent a significant proportion of costs. As a managerial approach, BPM considers processes to be strategic assets of an organization that must be understood, managed, and improved to deliver value added products and services to clients. This approach can be supported, or enabled, through technology to ensure the viability of the managerial approach in times of stress and change.

BPM enables business to respond to changing consumer, market, and regulatory demands faster than competitors – creating competitive advantage. Watershawl practices business process management.

Watershawl believes in managing actions for better results.

Managing actions involves actively managing your business and its employees. Watershawl specializes in business process management (BPM), business continuity planning (BCP), and staffing models. Watershawl can also offer business-class web design and development for the Indianapolis area. Watershawl wants to help make your business better.  Here are a few of their management services:

Process Auditing – Find out your company’s risk level by analyzing who knows which tasks and whether or not each task has a written procedure.

Staffing Models - Create utilization models that your supervisors can use to plan for – and report on – daily staff productivity.

Business Continuity Planning - Be prepared for various disasters by creating a plan for how your business will go on in midst of environmental and social variables.

Management Consulting - From business process modeling to staff utilization models, we can help your business setup and diagram the functions that keep your business growing daily. Better manage your current employees using data, not gut instincts. We can provide custom tools that allow supervisors to anticipate staffing needs and run scenarios of changes in work loads before they happen.

Business Process Management - Whether your business is brand new or well established, if your company is growing, then there is a need to get organized. Documenting what each task within the company does, who knows how to do it, and if anyone is cross-trained on the subject can be an arduous task, but it is what we specialize in. We can help your company get organized.

Business Continuity Planning - Its wise to plan for various environmental or social events that could seriously impact the ability of your business to continue on afterward. Is your data backed up? Have the backups been restored to test? Would you be able to function if 30% of your staff became ill? How long could you remain in business without electricity? These are the things we can help you find out.