Need tools to document business intelligence (BI) metadata? Measure the performance and visualize the structure of business processes? These enterprise modeling offerings combine Web-based components that support the process lifecycle for business process design, analysis, optimization, and implementation.

The offerings extend the goals of enterprise modeling – including business process analysis, process governance, and standardization – plus process simulation and optimization to a corporate architecture. Process performance management capabilities enable you to establish continuous process optimization.

Benefits of SAP Enterprise Modeling applications by IDS Scheer include:

• Decrease of process costs and resource requirements
• Accelerated process times
• Improved process quality and transparency
• Continuous evaluation of process performance indicators and visualization of bottlenecks
• Improved documentation and communication of organizational changes and system landscape optimization
• Reduced SAP software upgrade and implementation project times
• Process-driven benchmarking and identification of best practices
• Reduced risk of compliance failure due to transparency
• A basis for enterprise services-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA)
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

SAP Business Designer by IDS Scheer

The SAP Business Designer application by IDS Scheer helps you design business processes and connect with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution. SAP Business Designer helps you ensure corporate modeling standards by enabling intuitive business process design. The application also provides global availability for Web-based process design.

SAP Business Process Optimization by IDS Scheer

The SAP Business Process Optimization application by IDS Scheer adds quantitative process analysis to Web-based modeling with the help of extensive simulation functionalities. You can realistically simulate process hierarchies and interlinked business processes – taking into account organizational structures and other resources.

With SAP Business Process Optimization, you can optimize business-process handling times, reduce costs, and increase process quality. To aid in corporate decision making, you can use a Web-based tool to optimize key figure-based processes.

SAP Business Server and Publisher by IDS Scheer

The SAP Business Server and Publisher application by IDS Scheer provides permanent, low-cost availability of process information through Web-based portals. A database server enables central access and management of all Web-based products.

The business publisher component supplies process information through Web-based portals, rights-based and role-based access to process models, and dynamically generated portal content.

SAP Enterprise Modeling by IDS Scheer

Your company's business processes are often based on complex IT landscapes that call for order and transparency. You need a holistic enterprise services-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) to identify mission-critical IT systems and align them with the requirements of the business processes.

With the SAP Enterprise Modeling application by IDS Scheer, complemented by enterprise architecture management, you can have a clearly structured, easily understandable description method that covers all relevant elements in today's architecture standards. The software supports all necessary planning processes for establishing the target architecture geared to business processes.

With the BI modeling capabilities of SAP Enterprise Modeling, SAP offers integration with the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) component. This application supports IT managers, BI experts, and specialists in end-to-end redocumentation, conception, and modeling required for BI rollout, harmonization, or consolidation projects.

SAP Process Performance Management by IDS Scheer

Process performance management (PPM) is becoming increasingly important if your company wants to maximize efficiency in your business operations. The SAP Process Performance Management application by IDS Scheer analyzes processes running in SAP solutions and automatically generates graphic documentation. At the same time, the application uses previously defined process performance indicators to help you evaluate the current process performance.

SAP Process Performance Management provides intuitive cockpit displays of the current process performance indicators. An integrated, early warning system automatically monitors all ongoing processes and displays a warning if these deviate from the plan. You can use the application decisively to continuously improve and sustain efficient and innovative SAP solution-based business processes.