Xperience 2013 Be Informed 4.2 Dr. Brand Niemann Director and Senior Data Scientist Semantic Community AOL Government Blogger May 20, Updated October 8,

Background Be Informed is an internationally operating, independent software vendor. The Be Informed business process platform transforms administrative processes. Thanks to Be Informed’s unique semantic technology, business applications become completely model-driven, allowing organizations to instantly execute on new strategies and regulations. Organizations using Be Informed often report cost savings of tens of percents. Further benefits include a much higher straight-through processing rate leading to vastly improved productivity, and a reduction in time-to- change from months to days. Xperience 2013, May 23 rd, is Be Informed’s Annual Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. 2

Background 3 DiscoverThe discover stage, generally runs parallel to the sales phase. Goal of this stage is to understand the real business issues and the assignment. In this stage, you decide whether you can proceed or that you should not. Define Define is mainly about the definition of relevant objects and aspects. Goal of this stage is to envision an implementation independent business model. DesignGoal of the design stage is to design, implement and test the core application: an executable architecture of the business model of the previous stage. Detail Goal of the detail stage is the efficient realization of a high quality Be Informed solution. In this stage, we refine and validate the coarse grained Be Informed models of the previous stage. DevelopGoal of the this last stage is the efficient realization of a high quality overall solution by developing and testing components.

Purpose and Overview Purpose: – Be Structured With Be Informed 4.2 The structure of the documentation and its use with my work examples Overview: – Documentation and Knowledge Base Insight Partner Web Site and Semantic Community Wiki – Software Installation My experience – Migration of Applications My experience 4

Be Informed Insight News 5

Be Informed Insight Patches & Updates 6

Be Informed Insight Be Informed 4 7

Be Informed Insight Getting Started With Be Informed 4 Be Informed 4 – After the installation of the new version, you can import your projects from previous versions. Use the topic list at the left side of this page to browse through the available introductions and tutorials. – Getting Started with Be Informed 4 Need help getting started with Be Informed 4? These introductions guide you through the process of setting up your work environment, modeling and getting from an idea to a simple solution. – Customizing the modeling domain The four standard meta models offer a rich business language that should cover most - if not all - of your needs. When these standard meta models are not sufficient to describe the business domain, there are three options for customizing the modeling domain. – Modeling your business To ensure the quality and consistency of implementations, all Be Informed implementations should follow the same process, consisting of smoothed, standardized paths with known activities. Be Structured provides the methodology for the realization of customer solutions with the Be Informed business process platform, mainly by modeling. The methodology can be used for single solutions as well as for enterprise-wide infrastructures and can be trimmed for large and small scale usage. – Modeling products Products are modeled in the Product Domain. Examples of products are: insurances, permits, benefits, grants, and taxes. During the modeling process the constraints of the product are modeled in decisions, classifications and / or calculations. – Modeling registers Registers are centrally managed storage of information that are widely reusable within an application. Registers are used in situations that require storing of data about certain aspects such as employee information or personal information in an insurance policy. – Configuring interaction The interaction offered in model driven business application developed with Be Informed can be tailored to the needs of your organization and the users of the system. This is done by a combination of modeling and configuration of behavior profiles. – Configuring behavior In Be Informed, models are made executable through services. Examples of services are creating a case, making a decision or calculation and generating a document. Behavior profiles are used to configure the behavior of these services. 8

Be Informed Insight Documentation 9

Be Informed Research Notes: MindTouch documentation – 10 Introductions – 20 Design guides – 30 User manuals (13 to do - may duplicate what has been done already) – 40 Hands-on examples and tutorials (find good examples to use on my work) – 50 Reference guides and cards (Two Tables and Expression Language Table as PDF) – 60 Installation guides (Setup Studio) – 70 Miscellaneous (Integration) release notes (Read Release Notes and Migration Guide before installing) studio (Installation file) studio-optionals (Archimate and Be Structured Jar files) tools (This document describes the installation and use of the Be Informed Word Add-in. With this Add-in you can export Word documents to Be Informed Content files in textile format.) 10

Be Informed Knowledge Base: MindTouch 11 My Note: Each Section and Sub-Section Has a Well-Defined URL. My Note: Semantic Search Of Entire Knowledge Base

Be Informed Knowledge Base Attachments: MindTouch 12

Be Informed Knowledge Base Spreadsheet: Excel 13

Be Informed Knowledge Base Analytics: Spotfire 14

Be Informed Studio Editions 15 EditionPersonalProfessionalEnterprise Modeling options Design business models Design and run business models Design, run and improve business models FunctionalitySingle user, stand alone Multiple users, execute models Multiple users, execute models, analyst workspace ApplicationBasic testing functionality, within Studio Single application Business infrastructure Be Informed delivers different editions of Be Informed Studio. Each edition has specific functionality. My Note: I have the Personal Edition.

Be Informed Studio Installation 16

Be Informed Studio Set Up Choose the right installation package – Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 and 64-bits) Install Be Informed Studio – Select English, 311 MB Start Be Informed Studio – License File Create a project – Cross Information Sharing and Integration Set up a project structure – It is considered good practice to create a hierarchy according to the four domains: case management, products and decisions, interaction and registration. In addition, it is good practice to create folders that correspond to the major concepts of each domain. The case management folder could contain, for instance, folders for cases, activities, and case objects. 17

Setting up the work environment: Licensing 18

Setting up the work environment: Setting up a project structure 19

Installed Personal Edition Version and Imported Parking Lot Request Project 20 My Note: October 4, 2013

Preview Application 21 My Note: October 4, 2013

Be Informed: Getting Started 22

Be Free Knowledge Base: MindTouch 23

Be Free Knowledge Base Spreadsheet: Excel 24

Be Free Knowledge Base Analytics: Spotfire 25

Taxonic White Papers (PDF) 26

Taxonic White Papers Knowledge Base: MindTouch 27 My Note: Google Chrome “Find”

Taxonic White Papers Knowledge Base Analytics: Spotfire 28

Be Informed Knowledge Base Analytics: Spotfire Find 29

Business Process for Network Analytics 30 My Note: So are my Edge Tables Linked Data in the form of Taxonomies based upon a Thesaurus? YES!