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ActiveModeler Avantage Overview

KAISHA-Tec Corporation

December 2008


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About ActiveModeler Avantage

ActiveModeler Avantage is a new generation standards-oriented BPM (Business Process Modeling) platform. The platform provides BPMN 1.1 compliant process diagram editing, multiple projects, and a .NET process modeling framework. The tool that was designed with extensibility in mind. You can add new features simply by installing a plugin, for example Web Export, Metrics (for cost reduction analysis) or Content Management.


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Key Features and benefits Modeling

Feature Benefit

•BPMN Diagramming You can create BPMN 1.1 compliant process diagrams. The data is stored in an XML based file structure.

•Project oriented Avantage lets you organize your work into projects.

•Plugin basedFeatures and functionality can be added to the basic Avantage Platform software simply by installing additional plugins.

•Process Navigator A hierarchical process model editor/browser makesit easy to manage both small and large projects.

•Model CategoriesDefine categories which can then be associated to objects in a process model. Includes a category editor. Each category can have its own color and labels

•Organization StructureAvantage provides a hierarchical company structure for Entities, Departments and roles.You can map BPMN container entities like Pools and Swimlanes to the organization.


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Key Features and benefits Modeling Extensions

Feature Benefit

•MetricsThe Metrics plugin allows you to add powerful numerical and cost analytics to your BPMN process.Calculate the financial costs of a process. Make improvements and cost reductions. Create Excel reports showing value and non value adding activities.

•Web ExportExport your process model to the Web to create online process manuals. Just a browser is needed to view the model.You can also use your own HTML template for the export (to add company logo, version information etc.

•Version History The CVS module allows multiple people to work on a project with full update control and version history.

•SOX Module Add powerful SOX instrumentation to the process model. Risk control matrix and RACI reporting is provided.

•Content ManagementAdd documentation to the process objects via user defined templates. Create a full process documentation Word document for business requirements, functional specifications, project initiation document etc.

•WorkflowAutomate the process with a Wizard to create a feature-rich, browser-based workflow system. Forms are standard .Net Webforms.


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Getting Started When you open Avantage you will see the following:


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To get started quickly you can select “Create a new ActiveModeler Avantage BPMN diagram”.

This will create a project and process model automatically as we will see.


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Choose a project name and press Create:


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You will next see this:


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You can then give your process model and name e.g. Accounting and the diagram a name e.g.

End of month closing procedure:


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Now you can define the Organization Structure for the project:


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Let’s call it KAISHA-Tec. Now we can add Entities, Departments and Roles as follows:


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Now we can start putting down BPMN objects as per the BPMN 1.1 specification. A tip here, if

you hold down the CTRL key you can put down many objects of the same time in one operation e.g.


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The same for linking, hold down the CTRL key:


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You can link Pools/Lanes to the organization structure as follows:


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The “>” in front of Finance means it is linked to the organization structure. In this way you can

easily build up a diagram like:


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Just one thing – links? To show the link caption do the following:


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The link can be moved by pressing the ALT key and moving it with the mouse:


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Just move and enter the required text:

For more information please seewww.activemodeler.com

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