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Skelta BPM.NET 2007 provides advanced functionality in every phase of the BPM cycle with extensive features for process design, management, activity monitoring and Human Workflow Services (HWS), .The Skelta Screenshot Gallery showcases key features at the heart of Skelta BPM.NET 2007 with images, brief descriptions and highlights of:
Process Designer
Process modeling or designing enables BPM practitioners to define processes to achieve organizational objectives. Skelta’s Process Designer provides web-based process modelng and deployment capabilities. It is an AJAX based ASP.NET server control that can be embedded in any Web-based product, ASP Engine or Web Page. Skelta’s Visual Process Designer allows you to easily create, group, zoom in, export, and distribute process designs amongst stakeholders.
Features
Intuitive User Interface
- Visio like interface for ease of use – also import Visio diagrams via IT-Pearls BPMN stencil for Visio
- Rich design experience on a browser
- Complete drag and drop functionality
- Group selection and free movement on
design mosaic
- Resize actions and zoom in or out of
complete process definition
- Auto layout feature
- Easy process definition
- Wizards for easy process design
- Quick properties for Wizard for configuring Activities
- Define values for properties of various action
Comprehensive Activities
Skelta Process Designer provides a complete range of activities under the following categories
Human Activities - Approvals, Checklists, Tasks, Choice, Information, and Work for allowing resources to easily participate in processes.
Integration Activities - XML, XML Variable Interfaces, Web Service, Script, COM, Integration with Office are some of the activities available to allow a process to interact with other applications.
Communication Activities - Skelta’s Process Designer allows processes to be initiated on emails, SMS and other forms of communication and also enables transmission of messages through these channels.
Engine Activities - Decisions, rules, loops, and variable updates are some of the activities that the Skelta Workflow Engine performs as a part of the process.
Scheduler Activities - Skelta offers powerful timer and scheduler functionality for precision scheduling of process activities.
Other Features - Escalations, SharePoint actions for seamless interface with SharePoint sites, libraries and custom lists, out-of-the-box connectors for InfoPath and BizTalk Server, native integration with Outlook are some of the other powerful features in Skelta Process Designer.
Powerful Human Workflow Services
Skelta’s process designer has powerful features for selection of resources for task assignment. These include:
- Dynamic assignment of tasks based on roles, name, designation or any other attribute present in the resource database.
- Multi-level calendars for managing resource availability
- Use of alternate actors when resources are not available
- Queue management for management of resources performing similar functions. Skelta Queue Management allows automatic, semi-automatic and manual modes of task dispatch. FIFO, LIFO, and Round-robin are some of the algorithms supported.
Easy Deployment
Skelta processes can be easily deployed with a single mouse-click. The Deploy option in the Process Designer automatically maintains process versions. Deployed versions can also be rolled back to a previous version.
KPI / BI
Skelta’s Business Activity Monitoring Dashboard provides powerful analytical tools for process optimization. It offers maximum control over process execution through real-time notification of exceptions/process violations and the ability to make business-level decisions in response to situations.
Features
- Exhaustive set of reports on various business processes hosted on the workflow engine
- Instant insight into how IT events at workflow engine level will affect progress of high-level business transactions
- Permit real-time business-level decisions in response to system events
- Automate real-time notification of violation or pending violation of business-level policies and SLAs
- Statistics on business process performance
- Advanced analysis features
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- In-built BAM analyser
Task List
Skelta allows process-related tasks to be delivered through web, email, PDA, SMS, voice and other channels. The Skelta WorkItem List is a web channel provided for delivering tasks to users. The Work Items List has an Outlook-type interface with an Inbox and folders.
Features
- Intuitive Outlook-type interfaces
- Extensive customization capabilities – customize default views, layouts, and behavior
- Allow users to assign alternate actors
- Allows user-specific locale preferences
- Enable separate views for managers and queue owner
Dashboard
Skelta’s Business Activity Monitoring Dashboard provides powerful analytical tools for process optimization. It offers maximum control over process execution through real-time notification of exceptions/process violations and the ability to make business-level decisions in response to situations.
Features
- Exhaustive set of reports on various business processes hosted on the workflow engine
- Instant insight into how IT events at workflow engine level will affect progress of high-level business transactions
- Permit real-time business-level decisions in response to system events
- Automate real-time notification of violation or pending violation of business-level policies and SLAs
- Statistics on business process performance
- Advanced analysis features
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- In-built BAM analyser
Reports
Skelta’s Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) dashboard provides comprehensive, drill-down, web-based reports on process execution and performance. These reports aid business managers and process administrators to monitor, track and fine-tune processes for better performance. They facilitate exception handling procedures and allow intervention for corrective actions. Presented in graphical as well as detailed formats, Skelta reports allow managers to quickly zero in on critical information.
Features
- Real-time reporting on current workflow statuses and instances
- Comprehensive analytical reports on transaction and activities and process execution
- Intuitive filters to filter reports for specific processes
- Ability to customize and save report views
- Drill down graphical views of execution of specific workflow instances
- Business analyst view of current progress of a workflow
- Detailed reporting on users, activities, variables, and activity status
- Ability to export reports to other formats for further analysis
- Reports on KPIs and overdue for performance analysis
Enterprise Console
The innovative Skelta Enterprise Console with multi-level process categories, customizable process documentation templates enables centralized process management and acts as a repository of all processes. From process modeling to automation and optimization, Skelta Enterprise Console brings together the entire BPM experience on a single platform.
Features
- Centralized process management through a unified interface
- Multi-level process categories for grouping processes
- Repository of processes of all types – Skelta workflow processes, manual processes, and other automated processes
- Customizable process documentation templates
- Ability to design, deploy and manage all Skelta workflows in a repository.
- Ability to associate Skelta Workflows to any SharePoint site, custom list, events.
- Ability to associate Skelta Workflows to changes in any file system or folders.
- Ability to associate Skelta Workflows to activities in SAP and other ERP (requires plug-ins).
- Ability to view all process attributes from a single location – automation status, implementation status, owner, automation provider, related applications and sub-processes.
- Inbuilt infrastructure for process and control self-assessment for Sarbanes-Oxley and similar laws.
- Native version control for management of workflow changes.
- Process management workflows for process automation requests and change management
- Tracking and audit trail of changes to processes
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