Applications of DE2

No matter your problem, DE2 is your solution

Select a topic below to learn more. Portfolio Management - No business has the luxury of waste. The correct mix of IT and Business Operations ensures efficiency and affordability in any business. Pragmatica Innovations DE2R provides analysis of the complex relationships that exist in your business. Managers can then identify key IT components, not simply by who is using them or how many there are, but instead by what they do, and what operations are dependent upon them for value stream management throughout the company. Objective analysis, supported by data instead of emotion, is the basis of sound financial management of IT resources.
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Strategic Analysis - What is the value of "why" if you never measure it? Pragmatica Innovations DE2M allows you to express your world and your vision into structures you define. By simultaneously linking resources to processes you have a way of seeing the completeness, connectivity and contribution of each aspect of your company. Pragmatica Innovations DE2R allows for analysis and visualization of the complex interplay of programs and initiatives. Identify gaps and opportunities to reallocate resources and capabilities. See collisions of programs and test the feasibility of strategy before financial commitment. Connect strategy and give it value by making "why" become the "how".
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Process Improvement - How do you improve process improvement? Every business is a mixture of products, processes and resources. Every one of these is dependent upon the other two. Without an understanding of the products of processes and who is using them, you will never understand the value of the resources. DE2M allows you to import graphical and numerical data into an Oracle database. There is no need to redraw or change your data. Your world remains yours. Pragmatica Innovations DE2R provides the ability to not only understand this information but to communicate it across all participants. Now clear boundaries between processes may be defined so that management knows not just the immediate problems, but everyone may seek structural causes, not just individual process changes. An added benefit is that this gives both a real number for the quantity of processes in the company, as well as understanding and measuring the scope and progress of the process improvement effort. Until you know how many processes you have, how will you know when you are done improving?
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Network Management - Where is there data in the diagram? Many companies have a large investment in Visio network diagrams. The problem is that to answer questions about the network, the network manager is left with their only resources - the network diagrams. How many empty bays? How are the ports connected? What cable carries what information? These are simple questions that require timely manual examination and tallying to answer. Is that how you want to use your network manager? Pragmatica Innovations provides the answer to these problems. DE2M has the ability to import Vision diagrams into DE2R - an online Oracle database and repository with role based permissions and security. A pile of diagram now becomes a pile of information that can be queried and presented online - in real time. Changes to the information in the database can be synced back to the diagram. Do more than document your network with Visio - manage it.
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Capital Planning and Investment Control - Who needs what when and why? Strategy is connected to production through resources and investment. Both control change. You cannot optimize assets without a plan and you cannot throttle the speed without controlled investment. Pragmatica Innovations' DE2M and DE2R allow you to couple the ability to connect financial data with business processes and processes with capital and investment. Determine the value of an asset by understanding the processes that rely upon it. Know the lifecycle and positioning of that process to determine the appropriate method of providing assets. Objectively determine the impact of an investment by placing processes on an even playing field aligned to corporate objectives. No emotion, just the facts. Subjective analysis makes loud meetings. Turn down the volume.
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Supply Chain Management - What's in and what's out? Understanding corporate boundaries and relationships is a key to success. The more we optimize ourselves, the more likely we are to rely upon others who have done the same. In this interconnected, dispersed world we understand that sharing information with partners is more than about trust, it is about building dependent relationships. Pragmatica Innovations DE2R not only gives visibility into your processes, but allows you to share those processes in an online repository with Oracle database security. Don't let those you rely upon to be strangers. You can send them a report, or let them in for a real-time discussion. Enable your supply chain to include you in their plans.
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Workforce and Competency Analysis - We are what we do. Human resource managers know that people bring more than a body to the table. Getting the right mix of competency in the workplace within budget ultimately means analysis at a level equal to any IT manager. What is the value of a skill or bit of knowledge? These are the assets that each worker represents, but unlike IT assets they may not be unbundled from the person or provided as a service. Organizations are the balanced of workforces and competency. A decision to optimize one competency may preclude the use of others elsewhere. It's a tough game balancing process, competency and workforce. Pragmatica Innovations DE2R provides the ability align these and visualize dependences otherwise not understood. It increases the "human engineering tolerances" for a better fit and less friction. Pragmatica Innovations allows human competency information to be linked to process or presented as an independent model. Training investment can be optimized and a competency inventory maintained independent of the workforce. Model employers model employees.
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Master Data Management - What is the right source? Every company has its own language and this is reflected in the data. The formation of consistent information is impossible without an authoritative management of source data. Without context it is very difficult to normalize data and ensure its authority. This is because every process is an instance of context. Every process has the potential of introducing new data that might duplicate structures that are already present. Process developers must understand the authoritative types of data already developed that are appropriate for application to their process. That cannot be done without the ability to apply multiple contexts to the same data. Pragmatica Innovations DE2M provides the ability to link the company's metadata with authoritative sources so that processes are aligned to the correct master data through metadata based discovery services in a process context. You must first know what it is you are looking for before you can find it.
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Facility Management - Let's get physical. All processes eventually will have to express a physical entity requirement for their tasks, resources or products. Even the most virtual construct requires an IT component that in turn requires a physical component of the facility. The plant and equipment concerns of a business represent a significant investment in capital assets as well as an ongoing material commitment. It is also one of the most fluid and dynamic information environments. Facilities are constantly changing. For this reason, facility manages often use databases and diagrams to keep track of facility configuration and their management. Microsoft Visio is a superb tool for this purpose. Many facility managers maintain numerous Visio diagrams simply because it is difficult to maintain all facilities on one single view. Some managers have linked that information with databases and spreadsheet. Pragmatica Innovations takes this capability to the next level that is ideal for larger implementations. DE2M allows multiple diagrams to be imported into an online Oracle database. The facility information may be shared and managed in real time through an online repository. Roles, permissions and workflow may be added to allow delegation of management while still retaining approval permissions. You don't need a big diagram to see the big picture.
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Systems Engineering - A system by any other name would be as complex. By one definition, systems are connected resources that through processes give rise to products. This broad view is applicable to economic, financial, manufacturing and a host of other systems. The narrower, more common view is that a "system" is the role of information technology and information as a resource engaged in the support of a company's processes. Regardless of a system as IT asset or broad process Pragmatica Innovation's DE2M and DE2R will help engineer it by expressing any numerical, textual or visual data as a set of related elements. In this way the broader system may be represented as the origin of the requirements for the discrete solution that enables its execution. The DE2 suite did not mature to finally provide these capabilities. It was intended from the start to be a modeling tool coupled with an analysis engine and an online repository for presentation and collaboration. Unfettered by method, ontology or semantics it is applicable to whatever may be expressed in word and picture. Finally, a system for system engineering - by intent.
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Manpower Analysis - Who is where doing what? The human resource domain is the next challenge in enterprise engineering and architecture. Expressing the human in terms that are balanced at the same level of abstraction as the resources they use will finally give a complete picture to the engagement and contribution of people. Manpower analysis is a high level construct that must be simultaneously validated from the top down through broad capabilities and financial thresholds and from the bottom up through competencies attributed to processes. It is an expression of human competency density and distribution that validates the right mix of people and their value. This is new ground for visualization and analysis. No tool should be so restrictive that it cannot express what is being conveyed. This means that the structure of the solutions may be ad hoc and fluid. They may have to combine two or more traditional manpower analysis approaches with their own terminology and constructs. Pragmatica Innovations DE2M allows something as simple as Visio to be the front end for complex metamodel management. Coupled to other sources of data, complex translations are possible across various communities. This gives the DE2R repository the source of online analysis collaboration for continuous consensus from the top down and the bottom up. Think free, speak your language, work together and solve problems.
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Knowledge Management - We are only as good as what we know. Ensuring information is right is one problem. Ensuring that it is what the process needs is another. Ensuring it is in the right place at the right time is still another. Managing human understanding at this intersection of information, accuracy, time and space is the knowledge manager. A tool that solves all of these variables is hard to imagine - until now. Pragmatica Innovations DE2M allows Visio to be used as a data capture and presentation tool to rapidly express complex relationships of information, process, time, place and competency...and whatever else comes to mind. Knowledge Management requires tools that can bridge across multiple disciplines, methods and terminology to coalesce a single picture. The impossibility of drawing the single "big picture" of knowledge in the enterprise may now be reduced to individual diagrams that in DE2R become that big picture - or report - or graph - or table - or whatever combination is needed to present the right information to the right people at the right time in structures they understand. Get a solution that can manage knowledge, not just information.
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