Simulation and Analytics
Execute and improve your processes and architecture.

ProformaCorp includes both Monte Carlo and Discrete Event Simulators. They enable you to define unique business case scenarios and perform process simulation and animation with cost, timing and resource analyses for all your workflow models. Each process can contain multiple processing scenarios, allowing an unlimited number of “what if” analyses. Different “what if” analyses can be performed by varying resource allocation, commodity inventories and replenishment levels. The simulator runs a process scenario, so users can visually spot and analyze bottlenecks prior to incurring the expense of deploying or automating business processes. Simulation results can be displayed and analyzed in cost and timing spreadsheets and graphs, which can also be migrated to Microsoft Excel for distribution or integration with other spreadsheet applications. Read More.

Data Exchange
Import and Export with popular tools.

ProformaCorp’s Data Exchanges allows you to import and export business and UML/object models with other popular tools. New Data Exchange modules can be developed easily using the ProformaCorp open API based on MS COM (Component Object Model) or XML. Some interfaces are not applicable in the Process edition. ProformaCorp currently supports the following Data Exchanges:

*BPEL *Visio *Rational Rose *Together *ERwin *C++ *DDL *MS Project *XMI

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Data Collection
Automatically populate your repository with enterprise data.

ProformaCorp enables you to export or import notebook contents (including objects and their properties, if applicable) in any of the following formats:

• MS Excel (form or tabular format)
• MS Word (form or tabular format)
• Comma-separated format (.csv or tabular format)
• XML (tabular format)

You can export object information to a formatted table with no specific data (only template headings for the object and property types), or in a file populated with the objects and properties you selected.

You can import tabular-formatted object information into ProformaCorp. You can choose to place the imported data in a specific model or into inventory, which enables you to use it in whatever models/objects you choose.

Repository Analysis
Ensure quality and completeness of your repository.

Completeness Checker
ProformaCorp includes the Completeness Checker, which enables you to check one or more models in your open notebook to ensure that their objects and connections are comprehensive and correct. If any model components have been specified incorrectly, or if required information is missing, the Completeness Checker lists the components that require correction.

Model Comparison
You can use ProformaCorp’s Model Comparison facility to identify similarities and differences between models in the same or two different notebooks. To compare a pair of models, select the target notebook to compare against the currently opened (source) notebook. The default setting for the target notebook is also the currently opened notebook. There are many types of comparison that can be performed.

Spell Checker
Pro Vision’s Spell Checker enables you to check the spelling of all objects, links, connections, etc. in one or more models in your open notebook.

Frameworks
Customize ProformaCorp to fit your environment.

Frameworks
ProformaCorp contains a wide variety of models and their components, and the software supports many modeling languages such as Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF, FEA, UML, BPMN – BPEL, Rummler-Brache, and Six Sigma (as well as enabling you to create your own customized language). For this reason, ProformaCorp uses frameworks to simplify the navigation process. Simply stated, a framework provides a visual means to move among different modelers as you complete modeling tasks. It divides the modelers into categories, based on criteria specified in the modeling language itself (for example, the Six Sigma modeling language has pre-defined categories) or based on your own criteria.

Gallery of Graphics
ProformaCorp’s Gallery displays pictures, stencils, and objects in a central location. You can create new graphics or import existing ones, store them in the Gallery, then reuse them in multiple locations throughout your business models. You can also import graphics into the Gallery using the Windows Clipboard. You can then add details to your Gallery items, and incorporate them in multiple models.

Repository Extentions
You can use ProformaCorp’s Model XTender to create new objects and links and add them to your modelers. The Model XTender features 150 template objects and 100 template links. You can develop a completely unique modeling component by selecting one of these items and defining its style (such as color, image, font, geometry, and other characteristics) and assigning its properties. The custom objects and links are then immediately recognizable by ProformaCorp components, such as modelers, the Inventory Tree, association grids, Interpreters, the Translator, and others. After creating custom object and link types, you can assign them to modelers, just as with other objects and links.

Reporting and Publishing
On-demand automatic publishing and reporting

Interpreter
ProformaCorp ‘s Interpreter enables you to generate narrative descriptions of your models and all the objects included in the model along with each object’s properties and relationships. The simple narrative interpretation provides an easily-understood textual representation of all or selected portions of the model.

You can also use the Interpreter to view and change model information dynamically. This means that you can make changes from either the visual model or the interpreter report. Changes made in one format are automatically shown in the other. The revision to the model component is immediately reflected in both the interpretation and in the model.

HTML Publisher
You can publish a document with one or more models and interpretations in one of three formats: hardcopy to your default printer, to an HTML document (with a compile option), and to a Microsoft Word document.

Pre-Defined Reference Models
Save time and money on your next project.

Proforma’s reference models provide the knowledge base for defining the operations of key business functions. Our pre-built reference models support many different industries, including Finance, Telecommunication, ITIL, Supply Chain and Education. These reference models are based on published standards, industry expertise and practical experience. All the models are stored within a shareable ProformaCorp repository, which provides the framework necessary to define and analyze your specific requirements and models.