Week9 - BPR Modeling and Analysis

Sources/References:
1) "How Do I Choose the Best Business Process Reengineering Software?"
http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-choose-the-best-business-process-reengineering-software.htm
2) "Software Application Reengineering"
http://www.symbyo.com/Custom-Software-Application-Development/Software-Application-Reengineering.aspx

Subject:
How to select the best Business Process Reengineering software?

Response: 
Business process can be used to determine performance of an operation. When a company carries out business process reengineering, it restructures its process to operate more efficiently. To achieve this purpose, business process reengineering software is needed which can help an organization to optimize its performance. However, there are so many BPR software to choose from. What criteria should be consider? Data analysis, user friendliness, cost and quality are the criteria users can consider.

Data analysis
Recorded data can be easily anaylzed after BPR software is used. A clear assessment of an operation can be provided with creating tables and charts so lapses can be found out easily which may hinder productivity. Therefore, a good BPR software can allow users to record and analyze data of organizations so they can see how information flow through different departments and find out where the time is wasted.

User friendliness
Saving time is a common goal of business process reengineering. Communications between steps of a process should be fast and use less time. Therefore, a good BPR software should be easy to learn and use so it not only can  improve the communication between the process but also employees.

Cost and quality
There are many factors affecting the cost like the complexity of software and reputation of companies. Also, cost always is proportional to quality. Therefore, users need to find out the trade off between these factors.

In conclusion, the best BPR software should be able to find out the way to save time, easy to use and cost effectiveness.

Here is one of ease to use software