Business Process Simulation

Sample scenario:Banking company purchased your product.

You go on-site to help implement their credit approval process.

For example you come up with:

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Sample scenario (cont.):Business process model is done, next step in BPM Life-Cycle is Execution...BUT WAIT!

Customer questions:How many credit approvals can we handle during a given timeframe?

How much will running this process cost us per month?

How many new resources would we need to double our throughput?

Are we ready for winter season (loans triple)?

What could be done to optimize this process?

Answer: Let's use simulation to try to answer these questions for you :)

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Goals:Statistical Analysis of process models over time

Pre-execution and post-execution optimization

Reducing risk of change

Predict business process performance

Continuous improvementPerformance

Quality

Resource utilization

Challenges:Increase process complexity

Result presentation / interpretation

Standard / Interoperability

+ Each element of the process can be parameterized to add simulation informationTime

Resource

Cost

Priority

etc

BPS in jBPM - Notation

BPS in jBPM - Runtime

Extension to the jBPM runtime engine

Relies on process paths rather than process data

Built on-top of the Drools simulation and test framework.

Generates individual events for every simulated activity.

Events can be stored in simulation repository

CEP and Rules applied to provide meaningful simulation results.

BPS in jBPM - Tooling

JBPM DesignerSimulate as you go

In-line process simulation

Visualize process paths

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Per-node simulation properties

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Execution parameters:

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Simulation Results:

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Chart Types:Process:Execution times

Activity Instances

Total cost

Human TasksExecution times

Resource Utilization

Resource Cost

All other Task typesExecution times

Process PathsPath Execution

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Simulation Timeline:Navigate through each step of the simulation

Chart View Execution times

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Simulation Timeline:Model View Execution times

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Path Execution:

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In the worksReplay

More useful charts

Calendar support

FutureKPI

Externalize simulation scenarios (multiple)

Simulation Profiles