Process Oriented Enterprise Modeling (POEM)

Combining Enterprise Modeling with Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) allows you to map company activities. However, in many ways, BPM lacks an enterprise-wide perspective that would be helpful for wide-scale process oriented initiatives. Enterprise Modeling is the full scale modeling of all enterprise entities for the purpose of improving overall performance. In order for BPM to effectively support an Enterprise Model, it must include details that are found outside of the immediate processes.

Process Oriented Enterprise Modeling for clarity

Process Oriented Enterprise Modeling (POEM) acts as a layer above the BPM layer, both supporting and supplementing processes with information that clarifies activities as they fit into a more holistic organizational perspective. Business Process Management notations such as BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) are excellent tools for describing activities and individual process ownership, but their implementation on a broad scale require a set of procedures that will help clarify process relationships, responsibilities, and the relationship between business artifacts and process activities.

POEM is a set of standard procedures that describe the relationships enterprise-wide entities bear to processes. By creating this link, processes benefit from additional clarity and consistency. Using enterprise modeling in a process context allows your business to engineer itself towards greatest benefits in terms of efficiency and profit.

Interfacing’s Enterprise Process Center (EPC) is a full-scale Enterprise Modeling tool that is centered on BPMN Process Modeling. With the EPC, you can execute a Process Oriented Enterprise Modeling project that includes all the necessary process details, built with relationships between processes, responsible entities, and other enterprise-wide objects. The EPC is the tool of choice for any company looking to align their process maps across the entire enterprise.