Business Process Reengineering Tool

Definition

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Tool

a software tool that directly supports the reengineering of a business enterprise

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Business Process Reengineering Tool is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Tool
• Subclasses: None
• Example Instances:
  • DISCOVER
  • Oracle Designer
  • WorkFlow Analyzer
  • WorkFlow Modeler
  • WorkFlow Simulator

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a Business Process Reengineering Tool are to enable users to:

• Model the business (as is and as reengineered):
  • Business Object Models
  • Business Process Models
• Analyze these business models
• Simulate the business using these models

Guidelines

• Business process improvement tools may overlap with upperCASE modeling tools, because the same modeling techniques can be used to model both businesses and applications.