Getting to Know the Process Landscape

Process maps are used to give you an overview of your organization's entire process landscape or part of it. Processes are grouped into lanes and enable you to navigate to particular processes.

What Process Maps Show

Bpanda's start page originally shows the top-most process map. However, the BPM Manager can set another entry point. Click on an element in the process map to drill down a level and to the Process Landscape page. You can navigate right down to the processes here.

Processes map the flow of a certain lane. Process maps show how an organization's processes are structured and linked with one another, i.e. how they are assigned to various lanes and the time sequence in which they occur.

Differentiation is made between

  • Management processes (strategy, management, finances, controlling, safety at work)

  • Key processes (product development, marketing, sales)

  • Supporting processes (accounting, HR, quality management, infrastructure, communication)

The BPM Manager can manage assignment of process maps (SVG graphics) for process hierarchy and link their area elements in the Process Map tab below the Process Landscape in the main menu.

A process map contains area elements; these are either linked with another hierarchy element and its process map or with a process. Existing links can be highlighted using shading.

The BPM Manager can access the Edit Links, Edit Existing Draft, Replace Process Map and Remove Process Map commands in the  submenu.

How to Use the Process Hierarchy

The process hierarchy tree view can be shown from the left . What is shown in the Process Map and Overview tabs depends on which element is selected in the process hierarchy.

You can hide processes to make things clearer.

The BPM Manager can manage the process hierarchy under  Manage Process Space and directly access the  Edit Process Hierarchy command in the process hierarchy shown.

How to Get an Overview

The description and subordinate process maps and processes are shown in the Overview tab on the Process Landscape page.

The BPM Manager can use the  Manage Level command to edit the hierarchy element shown in the page header. Click on the toggle icon to switch to two column mode with Source Language and Target Language. You can also set the entry point in the process hierarchy for organizational units, organizational roles, groups and individual users so that they can only view a certain branch.