When is iServer a suitable BPA Tool choice for your organization?

Do you have a large number of Microsoft Visio ® diagrams and Office ® documents?

An estimated 2/3 of all Business Processes are drawn in Microsoft Visio!

Most organizations already have a large investment in Microsoft Office - skills (most people use Microsoft Office products on a daily basis) and content (Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Visio drawings and PowerPoint presentations).

Uniquely with iServer, customers have the option of remaining in the Microsoft Office and Visio environments whilst gaining access to the repository, modeling and analytical functionality of a BPA tool.

Would you like to continue using Visio and Office?

If all of your users are already familiar with and happy using Microsoft Visio, then it makes sense to keep it that way. Rather than migrating everything into a new tool, with iServer, diagrams are still just Visio diagrams, which makes iServer a very low risk investment.

Is cost a constraint in the acquisition of a BPA tool?

iServer is normally no more than 40% of the cost of most other BPA tools!

Have you had trouble implementing other BPA tools because of user resistance, lack of skills or tool complexity?

User acceptance is key to the success of an Enterprise Architecture tool - many projects fail simply because a tool proves too difficult for people to use - and if people leave the organization, they take the skills with them.

With iServer this is not a problem, because the key user interfaces are based upon Microsoft Visio and Office, making it very easy for anyone to learn how to use iServer in just a couple of hours.

Do you want to make BPA information more accessible to the wider business?

iServer is not just for analysts, and the low cost and ease-of-use make it possible to federate the tool out to the wider business audience. This is not possible with other BPA tools because of the prohibitive cost, complexity and the fact that the rest of the business is using Microsoft Office and Visio.

To view business processes and collaborate with other users, you don't need to be an iServer user.

iServer Portal is a web interface to the repository, providing live browser access to all diagrams and documents, metadata and relationships. This product makes all BPA information quickly available to the whole business at a very low cost per user.

iServer Publisher allows you to create picture-driven HTML presentations tailored to the stakeholder needs. This is a very effective way of making business processes accessible to business users who may not even be familiar with iServer. With an intuitive user interface, publications require no training and a simple feedback mechanism allow people to post comments or questions to the content owners.

The iServer ITIL Solution

Orbus provides a pre-packaged solution for ITIL, complete with pre-configured repository, ITIL framework, Visio and office templates and all common process notations. Find out more.