PVW EnterprisePro - BPR, Business Process Modeling, & Business Object Modeling tools

ProVision Workbench (PVW), winner of Object World's "Best New OT Product" award, is a business process and object modeling tool that seamlessly integrates Business Process (Re)engineering and Business Object Analysis with system development. ProVision gives business and information technology (IT) specialists a common environment to (re)define, model and automate business processes and reusable business objects.

ProVision includes over 14 modelers along with customizable methodology support for BPR, object oriented and structured methodologies such as Rummler-Brache, LOVEM and UML. It also contains model interpreters, web-enabled publishing facility, spelling/completeness checker, model compare, and much more. ProVision translates business objects into code for VisualAge/Smalltalk, ERWin, Visual Basic, C/C++ and DDL/SQL database schemas. In addition, it has C/C++ round-trip engineering.

The best models for business

	Business Interaction Model (sometimes called a Relationship Map). A business interaction model profiles all or a portion of the business showing the organizational boundaries within the business, and the interactions between these internal and external organizations.
	Workflow Model (sometimes called a Process Map). A workflow model is a representation of a business process in terms of its component activities, and the flow of work among the activities.
	Use Case Model. For each business interaction, the Use Case Model can specify the external “actors” who are involved, the nature of the communication which takes place, and the portion of the business supporting the interaction.
	Organization Model. An organization model is a hierarchy used to structure markets, organizations, and roles.
	Goal Model. A goal model is a hierarchy that organizes the goals discovered for the business.
	Location Model. A location model is a hierarchy that organizes the locations discovered for a business domain.
	System Model. A System modeler enables you to develop a decomposition structure based on your system object types.
	Process Model. A process model is a hierarchy which structures business domains, business processes, and activities.

...and for IT

	Interaction Model. An Interaction Model details how a use case (or business process) is realized by communicating objects. When the business process is initiated, the Interaction Model illustrates the objects involved, the time-sequenced messages between these objects, and the methods performed by the objects in response to each communication.
	Subtype Model. A subtype model is a representation of a general object type in the business domain, and of specialized subtypes which further extend the definition of this supertype.
	Object Model. An object model is a representation of how object types fit into the business domain relative to other object types. The object model also shows the three types of properties for each object type: its associations, attributes, and methods.
	State Model. A state model illustrates the lifecycle for instances of a particular object type. The state model depicts the major stages (states) that an instance of the object type can undergo, the allowable transitions between states, and the methods which transition the object from state to state.
	Method Model. The method model profiles the algorithm of a method. This profile, at its highest level, simply identifies other methods that the subject method communicates with (sends messages to). The optional further levels of detail become increasingly algorithmic as sequence, repetition, and condition are added. Method models may be coupled together to show a more complete picture of the cascading effect of messaging.

ProVision gives you the ability to do IT right

ProVision not only models the business and technical requirements, it also interprets them into simple, narrative statements. All ProVision models can be changed or enhanced through the model view or the interpreted view. This is to ensure that everyone (upper management, business, IT, etc.) understands the full meaning of every model and the business rules they represent. The drawing pallet will make it easy to add your own touches to any model. ProVision also allows publication of Models and documentation on the inter/intranet in HTML format for distribution and review by business units across the globe.

Customizability
ProVision contains support for the leading BPR, object oriented and structured methodologies such as Rummler-Brache, LOVEM, Booch, OMT, Use Case, UML, Martin/Odell, Martin/IE, and Coad. In addition ProVision has extensive methodology customization and model annotation capabilities to quickly evolve methodologies to meet corporate standards and new industry innovations. Methodology customization is fast and easy with ProVision. Every methodology is predefined as a symbol set which represents its notation and terminology. The ProVision user can tailor the active methodology or switch to a completely different one.

Extensibility
ProVision allows users to specify extensions to the objects in the PVW meta model. If there is a property your organization consistently uses that is not currently in PVW you can quickly add the property yourself.

Compatibility
In order to provide a direct and explicit mapping of business objects to an automated solution, ProVision translates business objects into code for VisualAge/Smalltalk, ERwin, Visual Basic, C/C++ and DDL/SQL schemas. With the C/C++ reverse engineering facilities your models will never be outdated.

ProVision Workbench

Enterprise Edition

The best models for business

...and for IT

**ProVision gives you the ability to do IT right**

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