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CONTENTS

DEPLOY AUTOMATED PROCESS WORKFLOWS ....................................................................................................... 4

COMMUNICATE AND SHARE PROCESS DOCUMENTATION EASIER ......................................................................... 8

ROLE-CENTRIC NAVIGATION ................................................................................................................................ 10

BUILD MULTI-LINGUAL MODELS FASTER .............................................................................................................. 11

MANAGE SAP GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATIONS ......................................................................................................... 12

PRODUCT FEATURE MATRIX ................................................................................................................................ 13

NEW SUPPORTED PLATFORMS AND SOFTWARE .................................................................................................. 14


INTRODUCTION

iGrafx 2015 carries on the legacy of aiding organizations in their quest for process excellence by

continuing to provide innovative, accessible and value-creating solutions. This milestone release

introduces new features and enhancements that further enable organizations to perform more

efficiently by increasing the visibility, predictability and accessibility of their business processes. Process

teams will enjoy usability enhancements and features that help them easily communicate process

knowledge throughout the entire organization and beyond. Business groups looking for flexible

solutions to help them improve their operations and stay agile in the face of continuing change will be

served by the addition of process automation capabilities. iGrafx 2015 heightens the ability of

organizations to understand, control and continuously improve their operations, specifically:

• Increase business agility, efficiency and compliance by automating business process workflow

and monitoring process performance

• Communicate processes more effectively with key stakeholders using customizable process

narratives

• Provide users a more focused view of how processes and related information pertain to their

role, and a better understanding of how their activities fit into the overall business context

• Manage global SAP process implementations and local variances through the synchronization of

SAP Global Template Projects in the enterprise model

When combined with pre-existing capabilities, the new and enhanced features deliver benefits enabling

organizations to be agile in their business transformation activities and aggressively pursue process

excellence. This document introduces you to all that’s new in iGrafx 2015!


DEPLOY AUTOMATED PROCESS WORKFLOWS

iGrafx 2015 introduces the ability to design and deploy automated process workflows from within the

iGrafx environment. Automating processes has been proven to help reduce costs and increase

efficiencies of processes that can be standardized. iGrafx provides business groups the flexibility to

define how processes are to be carried out and deploy automated steps for process users to follow with

limited IT involvement. Transparency into process performance gives process owners and business

managers the necessary information needed to adapt the process design or supporting resources, and

the control to quickly enable changes.

iGrafx Process Automation

iGrafx Process Automation’s model-driven process design ensures the seamless synchronization of

models and real-life deployment of process workflow. The rapid design and deployment capabilities of

smartforms and distribution of tasks give business groups the agility they often lack in IT-driven process

implementation projects. Process performers are guided through processes with structured,

standardized task assignments, reducing lead times by timely communication of next steps. Process

errors are reduced by ensuring adherence to the process design. Process owners can monitor work

progress and take action to remedy bottlenecks or issues as well as guarantee compliance traceability

for internal and external audits.

1. Design

By simply describing how work needs to be done in a graphical process model, business groups can bring

their processes to life as an executable application without programming. Deploying the workflow


applications is accomplished in a single click.

Define automation parameters and instructions as properties on activities in BPMN diagrams.

Enter information such as who can start the process, who perform tasks for each process step,

time constraints and links to other IT systems.

Design forms for data input that initiates a process or fulfills process steps.

Create a user-friendly single interface to other business systems, such as ERP or ECM

applications, to fill existing gaps in human workflow steps and ensure the integrity of system

data. Integrate tasks and data from multiple systems for a smooth workflow.

Accelerate design time with best practice templates for many standard processes:

o Sales, Services, Human Resources, Finance

o Information Technology, Quality Management, Process Management

o Manufacturing, Logistics

2. Run

Communicate clearly to process participants step by step, decreasing throughput and lead times, and

making sure that no task falls through the cracks. The intuitive ToDo Client view provides clear

information to each employee, helping move processes along more quickly and ensuring appropriate

handoffs.


Personalized ToDo task list helps process participants work efficiently, prioritizing all open tasks

of every open process instance and ensuring that no task is missed.

Required fields and approved decision paths guide employees through the process and ensure

compliance.

Flexible ad-hoc task creation allows documenting process exceptions where allowed, to keep

the process moving and provide visibility into how processes might need to be adapted in the

future.

The Live View of the process model assists process participants with understanding where they

are in the process for each process instance.

3. Monitor and Improve

iGrafx Process Automation provides process owners visibility into how transactions are progressing,

allowing them to intervene quickly if there is an issue or bottleneck. The Process Manager Client and

Process Monitoring Client present comprehensive information at a glance to empower process owners

to ensure processes are performing as planned. This information also provides a base for analysis,

highlighting where problems may be alleviated by altering the workflow rules.


Quick snapshot views of process status give the process manager insight to progress and / or

problems. Aggregate views of work queues help to allocate resources accordingly.

Comprehensive query and reporting informs process owners if all steps have been completed,

ensuring process control and assisting in quality compliance.

Capture information of how processes perform in real life: How long do things really take?

Which process exceptions have been needed and how often? Process transparency provides the

basis for analysis and rapid process improvement by the business group. Transactional data can

be used in iGrafx simulation capabilities for enhanced continuous improvement analysis.


COMMUNICATE AND SHARE PROCESS DOCUMENTATION EASIER

Nobody documents processes just to file them away – they are meant to be communicated and shared! iGrafx 2015 facilitates sharing valuable information about how work gets done across your company and to important stakeholders.

Process Narrative

Your process models may describe a process flow and stop there, or contain information about how many other business factors interact with the process: resources, risks and controls, goals and measurements, and many others. Consolidate any or all of whatever information you’ve captured about a process in a single document that is easy to share with stakeholders either inside or outside of your organization. With a simple publishing step, create detailed written documentation of your process model to share as Requirements documentation, Standard Operating Procedures, or to support quality audits.

Publish to Microsoft Word meaningful information at a document, process diagram and activity shape level within a given iGrafx process document (.igx). Available information includes


flowcharts, relationships to enterprise objects, custom properties, repository properties, RACI, notes, document history and document lifecycle.

Revision History of the full document lifecycle and workflow including reviews, approvals and endorsements

Customizable templates provide full flexibility in choosing types of information to include as well as document layout and design

The process narrative feature is available as an extension to all iGrafx modeling clients – contact your sales representative for more information.

Predefined printing pagination from the web browser

Print process models from your browser the way process model authors intended. Print settings are

inherited from the page setup properties of the source diagram when checked-in to the repository,

resulting in identical web and client application print output. Alternate settings can also be applied at

the time of printing if different pagination is desired.

Intelligent Diagram Indicators enhance visual communication

Indicators provide a visual clue to important information about a process. Indicators are icons, text or styling effects added to shapes based on special conditions. iGrafx 2015 extends the ability to customize these conditions to include evaluating when fields on the shape either contain or not contain certain text or phrases. Example: Certain process activities fulfill regulatory requirements, some of which are FDA requirements; the model includes relationships between these requirement objects and activity objects. Custom indicators are used to define that shapes will be a certain color depending on their connection to a regulatory requirement. The diagram that describes the process automatically color codes the activity shapes: Blue for an FDA requirement relationship, Purple for a non-FDA requirement relationship, and Gray for shapes that aren’t related to any regulatory requirement.


ROLE-CENTRIC NAVIGATION

Role-Based Portal

Enterprise models can contain an enormous amount of information: processes, objectives, requirements, business rules, supporting documentation, and more. iGrafx gives you a way to easily view and navigate all enterprise information that directly pertains to your role within the organization. Login using any browser to see your home page displaying your primary responsibilities and any objects where you are responsible, accountable, consulted or informed (RACI). Also use the role-based portal to quickly consult the RACI relationships of others in your organization. Get back to your own page quickly with the My Home button.

Since people can perform more than one role, drill into specific roles to understand the responsibilities particular to that work aspect.


BUILD MULTI-LINGUAL MODELS FASTER

Languages Find

With the latest iGrafx release, you can find and improve model translations quickly without needing to manually scroll all content for the terms that must be enhanced. The new Find and Find Next buttons in the Languages dialog enables fast navigation across the repository to quickly find terms to be modified. In addition, the editor is now synchronized with the repository tree so that the context of each term is visible while entering the translation. Inversely, after selecting a term in the repository tree or diagram and then invoking the Languages dialog, that term is highlighted in the dialog and immediately ready for editing.


MANAGE SAP GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATIONS

SAP Global Template Project Modeling

iGrafx 2015 helps businesses running SAP® across multiple locations to efficiently manage initial rollout

and subsequent changes, as well as manage local variations.

SAP Global Template Projects are used in SAP implementations to manage the process definitions of a

global rollout. A global template is used to define the general process definition that is to be replicated

across multiple local implementation projects. Using a global template saves time over duplicating the

same change manually in local projects, and reduces potential errors or unwanted variations. iGrafx

2015 repositories synchronized with SAP Solution Manager allow iGrafx Process® for SAP users to edit

and manage global project templates to more efficiently push changes to local implementations,

reinforcing standardization across geographies.

SAP® Solution Manager® global template projects can now be synchronized with iGrafx 2015 repositories.

Edit template projects as well as create new process definitions in iGrafx, and push changes to SAP for local evaluation and implementation.

Leverage Cross-Project shortcuts to reference template project from implementation projects.


PRODUCT FEATURE MATRIX

New features included in iGrafx 2015 are available in the following client applications:

iGrafx® FlowCharter®

iGrafx® Process™

iGrafx® Process™ for

Six Sigma


Enterprise Modeling


SAP®

Process Automation - Design for Deployment*

Process Narrative

Predefined Pagination in Browser*

Custom Indicator Intelligence

Role-Based Portal*

Languages Find

SAP Global Template Project Modeling *†

* Requires a connection to either iGrafx Process Central or iGrafx Enterprise Central repositories † Synchronization with SAP® Solution Manager® requires iGrafx Enterprise Modeler for SAP and iGrafx Gateway to SAP Solution Manager.


NEW SUPPORTED PLATFORMS AND SOFTWARE

iGrafx Process Central 2015 now supports Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014. Customers purchasing SQL

Server from iGrafx receive Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012.

iGrafx 2015 retires support for Windows® XP® operating systems.

For a full list of iGrafx 2015 system requirements, see the iGrafx website.

© 2015 iGrafx, LLC. iGrafx, Swimlane, iGrafx FlowCharter, iGrafx Process, iGrafx Process Central, iGrafx Enterprise Modeler, iGrafx Enterprise Central and iGrafx Process Automation are trademarks or registered trademarks of iGrafx, LLC. Microsoft, Windows and SQL Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG. Other products, fonts and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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