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Jeff Sage, Director- Business Process Engineering Group, General Motors:
"I have worked on many business process design projects in my career and have used as many as seven independent tools to support large scale process design projects. The 15 modelers that make up the ProVision Workbench modeling system essentially combine all of these diverse needs into one integrated modeling environment.  Representatives from General Motors Process Engineering Group, Proforma Corporation, and EDS are currently involved in major global process design projects. These projects have already realized substantial benefits and the ProVision Workbench modeling software is at the heart of supporting these results."

Ron Trosvig, Senior Process Architect, American Express:
"Most companies don't place enough emphasis business and technology planning.    That's where business modeling tools can be most powerful.  We use Proforma Corp.'s ProVision Workbench to support both reengineering and application development efforts. It gives the organization a common focus, helps create the core processes that drive new business opportunities, and serves as a common language between business and technology experts."

Al Brown, Principal in IBM Canada’s Workflow Management Consulting:
"ProVision Workbench has first-rate drawing and analysis features. It’s structure and overall design has been well thought out. As a support tool for consultants, it can be readily customized to support many process design techniques and methodologies, including IBM’s Line of Visibility Enterprise Modeling (LOVEMTM) The model interpreter feature, which automatically generates documentation and design specifications promises to be a time saver for consultants as does the significant object reuse capabilities delivered by the repository. All these features coupled with high performance and flexibility make it a great price performer -- in all, a very good value."

Harumasa Umeda, Senior Manager of the Software Engineering Center, Research and Development Headquarters, NTT Data Corporation.
"PVW is a tool that allows precise management of deliverables and creation of 'BPR Templates' through managed meta models. When defining current business processes using standardized BPR templates, analysts can discover problems that need solutions. PVW accurately links metamodels to deliverables produced through BPR, user requirement analysis, and design results which in turn, makes reuse and maintenance easy. We have been looking forward to the release of the international version and will be using PVW to perform BPR at our office as well as to provide BPR consultation to customers."

Albert Matias Computer Institute of Japan, Ltd (CIJ).
"The latest version of Provision Workbench includes improvements that make it even easier to use and understand. Unicode capability also makes PVW more suitable for users in foreign markets. In addition to offering an outstanding business modeling tool, the Proforma technical staff has been extremely helpful. Their customer-driven approach in design makes PVW truly a product of its users. This ensures usability across a large number of industries and applications."

Mika Omori, Computer Institute of Japan, Ltd (CIJ)
"We found that ProVision Workbench has many useful built-in features for analyzing our business processes. It is not an easy task to recognize and capture business processes without using certain methodologies. PVW helps you think in a logical way to keep everything consistent. Also, since it is based on object-oriented technology, we could manipulate and reuse objects to avoid redundant work."

Kurt Troyer, The Blood Center of Southeast Wisconsin:
"We use ProVision on all are projects.  We usually start at a high level with an organizational model, then we do process and data modeling at the same time, so we associate the data with each activity and step in the process.  ProVision allows us to communicate more effectively at all levels of the organization from the top, down to the people actually involved with the activity.  We can show how a process works today, and what changes we think will improve it."

Mark Clement, State of Wisconsin:
"We credit ProVision Workbench for the swift release of our latest system. We documented all our business processes and requirements using ProVision. It truly does bridge the gap between what users need and what system designers produce."

Dick McKee, Travelers Insurance:
“To me, the biggest advantages of using ProVision Workbench are:

• The integration among the models - when you make a change at one place, it changes everywhere automatically.

• The tie-in between BPR and Object Analysis

• The flexible methodology.”

Cliff Holt, Computer Management Sciences Inc:
“One of the great strengths of ProVision Workbench is its workflow modeler. It has helped CMSI and its clients achieve a very good graphical understanding of business processes. The business domain diagrams and workflow modeler have greatly increased the effectiveness of the analysis and design workshops and their output.”

“ProVision Workbench is easily understood and therefore easy to use. The product was in use by CMSI business analysts and developers as soon as it was installed. ProVision's strengths in BPR and object-oriented analysis and design were the major factors influencing the purchase decision.”  

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INFORMATIONWEEK, What’s Hot:
"Proforma’s ProVision Workbench lets users improve their business processes with reusable models. Information captured in the models eases the design of objects, databases, and specifications needed to implement computer applications."

Object News
"The Proforma Corporation recently made available a large and detailed white paper on Enterprise Application Modeling that is packed with useful information about modeling the enterprise. Loaded with diagrams, opinions, tips, UML advice, BPR information, and much more, this white paper is about as comprehensive as it gets. We're still studying it but it looks to be one of the best papers of the year on enterprise-level object-oriented analysis, modeling, and design."

Paul Harmon, Editor, Object Oriented Strategies:
“ProVision (Workbench) is impressive. (It) has taken advantage of a user-friendly way of representing activities that take place in a business process (and) moves from a process-oriented description of work to an object model of the process that can be used ... for OO software development. This approach seems ... useful and more likely to scale up to enterprise-wide software development efforts.”

Giga Information Group:
“The current strengths of (ProVision Workbench) lie in its business and system process modeling capabilities, its underlying object repository, the strength and cohesiveness of its methodology, and its ability to transition business objects from visual models into components of client/server applications.”

“... (ProVision Workbench) could be the first affordable concept-to-code development tool.”

IDC:
Since the IDC does not permit their reports to be quoted out of context, the reader is referred to their Research Bulletin # 13357 which positions ProVision Workbench as a truly multifaceted tool that can serve the needs of many different professionals in the development of business applications.

Cambridge Market Intelligence:
“(ProVision Workbench) helps define a business as a collection of interrelated objects, then builds these objects in a relational or object-oriented client/server environment. It includes a powerful on-line methodology, model interpreters, and both completeness and spelling checkers.”

PC AI Magazine:
“ProVision Workbench integrates three business modeling tools into one: BAR, Analysis, and Design. (It) enables business organizations to formulate new business processes ... and translate business processes into business object models. IT specialists can translate business objects and their associated components into required automation components.”

Charles Babcock, ComputerWorld:
“Proforma Corporation has made explicit the translation between business process diagrams reflecting the captured business rules and object system modeling. The ProVision Workbench repository and diagramming methods provide a common tool set and discipline to both the business process re-engineer and the applications developer.”

Gordon Sellers, Enterprise Reengineering:
“ProVision Workbench is an object-oriented business process modeling tool that addresses the needs of both business analysts and information technology specialists. Models and objects built by business managers become the building blocks for application development initiatives.”

“(ProVision's) methodology, “Pro-Guide”, combines leading BPR and object-oriented analysis and design approaches with the expertise of business modeling and client/server development practitioners.”

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