1. DIP Partner Presentation: Collaborative Process-Oriented Project Organisation Ulrich Reimer

2. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 2 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Business Operation Systems: core competency: development of collaborative knowledge and process organization is a spin-off of Bauer & Partner Bauer & Partner: for 8 years in the business of consultancy, EAI, and implementation of object-oriented software solutions mainly for large-scale enterprises in the automotive, telecom, financial sectors

3. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 3 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Much quality and money is lost at intra-/inter-organizational boundaries Business Case: Inefficient process and project organization costs lots of money

4. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 4 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Methods for - analyzing the process deficiencies - deriving remedies to obtain optimized processes Tools for - ensuring compliance to process models and business rules - adapting processes to changing situation and needs - supporting collaboration of people within processes and projects - integrating systems and removing media breaks - monitoring & total quality management - automatic report generation We offer methodologies and tools to solve this problem

5. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 5 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Process-oriented Project Organization System (POS) Project Management Project Office Business Indicators Total Quality Management Knowledge Management (POS) Business Processes Implemented Business Processes Process Management Consulting Process Management Consulting Process Design Subproz ess 1 Subproz ess 2 Subproz ess 3 Subproz ess 4 Subpro zess 5 Business Strategy IT Systems System Design

6. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 6 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 https://project  Worldwide Collaboration

7. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 7 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Project Characteristics  Structured Information

8. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 8 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Reports  Generated Documents

9. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 9 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Sharing of Documents  Semantically Unstructured Text

10. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 10 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Cockpit  Monitoring and Visualization of Information

11. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 11 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Milestones, Quality Gates  Project and Process Features

12. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 12 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Process-oriented Views Implementation is underway, including the support of intertwined processes task sharing between processes quality gates constraints on processes to comply to regulations and business logic

13. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 13 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Intelligent Middleware Data Sources PersonalizationKnowledge Base - Terminology - Rule System Web-Based Presentation Layer OrganisationProcesses SAP Mail DMS SQL LDAP ADS

14. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 14 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Unstructured Text  Structured Information: Within a collaboration platform many documents pile up over time. Relevant information is hidden within the documents, esp. under changing interest profiles  domain ontologies structure the information space  domain ontologies needed to extract information Our interest in the IP project

15. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 15 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Process Compliance: Formulate and ensure constraints on processes dependencies between processes  process ontologies to enable and direct process modelling  rules, constraints to include business logic Customization: User-specific views on information and processes  ontologies to specify and control the different views Our interest in the IP project (2)

16. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 16 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003  Business Case Provider (KM application area)  Technology Provider  Case Study Provider (through our customers) Our role in the IP project

17. © 2003 Business Operation Systems GmbH Slide 17 DIP Meeting, 17.1.2003 Contact Details : Ulrich Reimer Business Operation Systems Esslenstr. 3 CH-8280 Kreuzlingen Switzerland ulrich.reimer@bauer-partner.com +49 - 170 - 7985427 www.top-logic.com