BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND IT

The Process as a common language between Business and IT
With the Flexo Tool Set Denali introduces a new link between Business Process Management, Regulatory Compliance, Workflow Automation and IT Governance.
On the one hand, we live in a continuously evolving world where business people face challenges with short timescales.
On the other hand, IT people struggle to keep legacy applications fully operational despite security, technical, human and budgetary constraints. Communication is difficult between these two opposite worlds, often leading to misunderstanding, frustration and demotivation.
The Flexo approach reconciles both worlds by using processes as a common language : defining who in your organization does what, when and how. It uses a standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) combined with a precise semantic model for workflow automation.

Business Process Management and Regulatory Compliance
Process modelling is a way of documenting processes for Business Process Management (BPM), regulatory compliance and process reengineering. Flexo Tool Set manages the portfolio of processes as a tree that is combined with other trees describing the organization level, departments, roles, products, software, etc. Everything is shared on the Flexo Server where processes can also be associated with audit points and some metrics (Key Performance Indicators or KPIs) for measuring Business efficiency and improving them.
In Flexo, screens are easily added to those process steps requiring human interaction by simply dragging and dropping graphical elements before generating the associated prototype. Especially in a business context, working with prototypes greatly helps the involved parties to reach a consensus. Every process detail can be individually described and consolidated into customizable documentation that are always synchronized with the prototypes.
This collaborative process modelling naturally leads to efficient change management and process reengineering including enhanced risk assessment and management.

Workflow Automation
The real power of the Flexo methodology is demonstrated when transforming the process model into a fully operational workflow solution.
The Flexo model can be further enriched with a data access model and its associated screen bindings for generating a fully operational workflow solution. At this point developers may start adding custom code. These additions will be recognized and added to the model for inclusion into the next code generation.
This iterative procedure greatly improves the life cycle management of workflow solutions. The model and its associated documentation stay up to date and even adding new functionality to an existing solution, i.e. making a new release, is greatly simplified with the Flexo Tool Set. A new team can take over new release design and development by modifying the model iteratively, then regenerating prototypes precisely defining the new functionalities needed for the next release.
Flexo Tool Set is fully integrated with Java J2EE but compatibility with other technology platforms can also be provided.

IT Integration and IT Governance
Workflow solutions must be integrated into the existing IT infrastructure and connected to legacy applications. Flexo Tool Set allows a seamless and highly intuitive orchestration of services according to classical Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Existing Web services can be imported and used within the model, while new ones can be exported and used from outside the application. BPEL xml files can be generated from Flexo sub process orchestration.
The Flexo Tool Set enables your organization to map and manage its portfolio of IT applications with or without full modelling of their associated processes. Everything is shared on the Flexo Server where IT applications are associated with their owners, service providers, licenses, contracts, maintenance details, databases, processes, etc. IT governance
actions (e.g. contract follow ups etc.) can be automatically distributed and monitored by a specific workflow.

FLEXIBLE, EASY TO USE and yet COMPLETE for both Business and IT