Process Focused, Shared Destiny

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Process Focused, Shared Destiny

• BWU DEM/Workflow Subcommittee
• BWU Conference - Session 2
• October 15-18, 2001

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Welcome

• Introduction
• DEM/Workflow Subcommittee Panel Discussion
• Join us in establishing our shared destiny!
• Webster defines the word HELP as 'to join and
  contribute to the performance or completion of a
  task...to make easier, likelier or more
  probable...'.
• Let's work together to design a DEM/Workflow
  user community which collectively HELPs with our
  individual business and system challenges.

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Committee Members

• DEM/Workflow Subcommittee
• Active Members
• Sue Vetter Boeing Commercial Airplanes
  (Chair)
• Pierre Beaulieu DynaFlow Modeling Solutions
  (Co-Chair)
• Don Morren Herman Miller, Inc.
• Brian Bergey IBM Global Services
• Michael Phifer TriNET, Inc.
• Leen Roeleveld Baan Company
• Action Members What about YOU?

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Vision Statement

• Vision
• To add value to DEM/Workflow and to become a
  reliable and informative resource to the Baan
  World User Community.

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Mission Statement

• Mission
• Maintain a professional working relationship with
  Baan, its affiliates and partners.
• Become a facilitator of information between the
  BWU Community and Baan.
• Improve DEM and establish visibility globally as
  a valuable implementation and post-implementation
  tool for security and continuous improvement.

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Mission Statement

• Mission (continued)
• As DEM Workflow Knowledge platform, to
  establish a network of individuals and
  organizations able to provide information
  product to solve DEM problems or to enhance DEM
  capabilities.

The committee acts as a gateway of DEM/Workflow
topic knowledge.
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2000 Goals and Objectives

• Increase global exposure and knowledge of DEM and
  the presence of the DEM Subcommittee
• At least two articles in the newsletter.
• Weekly updates to DEM questions posted via the
  Web.
• At least five Committee submittals reflecting
  input secured from conference participation.
• At least one global member.

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2000 Goals and Objectives

• Develop methods of which the Subcommittee can be
  an effective medium for the BWU Community to
  Communicate with Baan and its Partners.
• Participate in Baan CIP/CWG programs as they
  become available.

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2000 Goals and Objectives

• Ensure that Enhancement Requests are processed
  efficiently and results communicated back to the
  Users.
• All existing DEM ERs reviewed and initial status
  applied by 4/1/01.
• Subsequent ER submittals reviewed within 45 days
  of receipt.

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ER Procedure

• Full ER Procedure and Enhancement Request forms
  can be found on BWU website under ERs,
  Enhancement Requests, Submit an enhancement
  request.
• Committee Submit ERs are posted on the BWU
  website for peer review and comments. These can
  be displayed by searching on an Assigned
  Subcommittee and selecting DEM/Workflow.
  (http//www.bwu.org/Secure/ER/er_search.jsp)

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ER Procedure

• Company Submit
• DEM/Workflow subcommittee may co-sponsor Company
  Submit requests and work issues.
• Committee Submit
• DEM/Workflow subcommittee will also team with
  companies to work common issues.

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2000 Goals and Objectives

• DEM03133 Employee Migration
• Problem Description Include the ability to
  copy/export employees and the roles attached to
  them within the Project Model to other
  versions/project Models.
• Operational Consequences Time saved by not
  having to input all employee/role within a
  project model for a site when a newer version of
  DEM needs to be used.
• Proposed Solution Within the Export Session
  and/or the Copy Version Data to Version offer the
  ability to also copy or export the employees
  within the project model by themselves in order
  to populate them within other versions.
• Baan Feedback In Baan ERP 5.0c, the employees
  are no longer stored by version, although the
  roles still are. It is also possible, in 5.0c,
  to copy employees, roles and employees by role to
  another version. The reason behind keeping the
  roles in the version is because it allows a
  controlled change of employee-role links. If the
  roles are no longer in the version, any change in
  the role/employee definition would have a direct
  effect on the run-time environment. A
  controlled/versioned change is then no longer
  possible.

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2000 Goals and Objectives

• DEM03134 Differences Report
• Problem Description Currently, Differences
  Reports dont user to specify or select amount of
  diagram or version detail needed.
• Operational Consequences Currently, report
  creation is lengthy. Navigating and sorting
  through report contents is slow and cumbersome.
  Adds difficulty to validating the move sheet
  during block-point checkout activities, which are
  required part of internal change management and
  installation procedures.
• Proposed Solution Provide the ability to specify
  whats being compared Diagram-to-Diagram and
  Version-to-Version (additional proposal detail
  included in actual ER).
• Baan Feedback Development to support the
  proposed solution (details) not cost justifiable
  at this time. Here are two sessions providing
  some help Session Print roles by process
  matrix (tgbrg8423m000) can deliver some of
  desired subapplication authorization query data.
  Can be started from print menu in Roles by
  Business Process session. Select detail level
  from activity till subapplications. ERP 5.0c
  session Analyzing of modeled Subapplications
  (tgbrg5127m000) allows selection of component
  application (can be session) then returns all
  activities subapplication authorizations where
  component application is modeled in a browser.

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2000 Goals and Objectives

• DEM03135 DEM Export of Project Model
• Problem Description DEM export provides several
  export ranges. Using Business Process range
  offers ability to select subset of process
  diagrams from repository to be included in
  export. Using Reference Model or Project
  Model ranges, adds process info to export file.
  Selecting both, file is loaded with the
  cumulative ranges of both and not the
  intersection of 2 ranges.
• Operational Consequences The resulting export
  file is always very large (gt60Mb) even when
  project model is small. Email limitations could
  prevent distribution of larger file size. User
  cannot import only processes of a selected
  Project Model.
• Proposed Solution Enable the intersection of
  both ranges to be added to the export file.
• Baan Feedback ERP 5.0c allows an export of only
  Business Processes used in Project Model. Set
  field Export Used Model Items in Business
  Models to Automatic and only Business
  Processes present in selected Project Models
  exported. However you still get repository data
  and model specific data for each exported
  Business Process. If you only want to export the
  model specific data then you need to create
  specific derived version where you maintain the
  model specific BP data. Then can export this
  version with only the model specific data.

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How to Contact Us

• BWU all NEW website (www.bwu.org)
• Access can be requested under Membership/
  Password Request.
• Subcommittee members contact information is
  posted under Product Issues, DEM/Workflow.
• Documentation Library is found under SEDC,
  Document Library. Send us information that you
  feel would be of value to other members, we are
  doing the same.
• Message and Forums are found under Forums. Ask
  and answer Baan software questions.

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BWU website DEM/Workflow section
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How to Contact Us

• Yahoo Groups (www.groups.yahoo.com)
• Register or Sign in with Yahoo ID and password.
• Join group named BWU-DEMandWorkflow.

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DEM/Workflow eGroup
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We Value Your Input

• What would you like to see the subcommittee work
  on?
• Join us as an Action Member! Bring your ideas to
  our monthly teleconferences. Bring your
  expertise to the BWU membership and to Baan by
  joining Baans CIP, Customer Working Groups,
  Product Improvement Projects.
• Help us influence the Baan DEM software by
  contacting us with any ideas, suggestions, and/or
  comments!

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Take a Minute

• Take some time to fill out our questionnaire and
  feel free to add any comments, suggestions, or
  ideas that you have for us or send us an email
  with your ideas after the conference!
• Leave us your business card we will contact you
  for opinions and ideas.
• Please visit us using one of our web based
  forums.
• WE NEED YOUR INPUT!

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Complimentary CD

• For those who complete the questionnaire, please
  take a complimentary CD with you!
• This CD contains useful documentation and links
  that have been compiled by the DEM/Workflow
  Subcommittee for BWU members attending our
  session.
• Read and Enjoy!

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DEM/Workflow Subcommittee

• THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY ..
• We are looking forward to hearing your input!

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