TIBCO Business Studio
TIBCO Business Studio™ is a standards-based, unified business process modeling and development environment that enables business experts and IT to collaborate to model, develop, and deploy business process applications.
Business experts can rapidly model business processes, user interface forms and page flows, business objects (data), and organizational structures. Process models can be simulated to understand their behavior and impact on the business. Process developers also use TIBCO Business Studio to develop the process applications and deploy them to TIBCO ActiveMatrix® BPM or TIBCO Silver™ BPM.
The model-driven approach to implementing business process applications simplifies process modeling and development because it requires virtually no coding. It allows teams of business experts and process developers to focus on developing process applications that meet business requirements using a fast, iterative, and collaborative approach.
- Empowers business experts to own, model, and manage their business process assets.
- Allows collaboration between business and IT to ensure that the processes developed reflect actual business needs.
- Single process model for both business and IT avoids "round trip" issues and ensures a single point of reference.
- Model-driven approach simplifies process development allowing a fast, iterative approach that results in rapid time to benefit.
- Simulation capabilities allow processes to be validated, bottlenecks identified, and optimizations implemented.
TIBCO Business Studio is available as free download for use as a standalone process modeling tool: http://developer.tibco.com/business_studio/default.jsp
Key Features
- Business and developer views: A process model is treated as a single entity with two unique views, one for business experts and one for process developers. Both business expects and process developers work on the same model. This ensures consistency and encourages collaboration.
- Process modeling: Standards-based process modeling using BPMN 1.2 and XPDL 2.1. Extensible BPMN fragment library for re-usable best practices. Built-in support for work management patterns. Processes can be debugged and emulated from within the modeling environment.
- Process simulation and reporting: Run simulations based on real data or sample data to validate processes and identify details such as costs, times, bottlenecks, or underutilized resources. Built-in reporting enables users to generate reports on these details or compare different processes to assess the impact of any change.
- Data modeling: Business data is modeled using UML 2.0 and abstracts data from process models, encouraging re-use across processes. Data models can be generated from the WSDL of existing services or generate WSDL to drive service implementations.
- Form and page flow modeling: Employ wizards and a rich design palette to graphically design, view, and test forms for process participants. Forms can be generated from activity data to enable rapid development. Forms can be orchestrated into sequenced page flows.
- Organizational modeling: Enables model-driven work distribution by allowing processes to assign work based on an organizational model that defines structure and attributes. On deployment, the organizational model is mapped to a corporate directory; this mapping can be dynamically changed at runtime without impacting process models.
