Merits of Biz_CAD for IT Vendors and Consulting Firms

Merits of Biz_CAD for IT Vendors and Consulting Firms

 

The followings are the merits of Biz_CAD for software vendors and consulting firms.

    Software
vendors		 Consulting firms
Optimization of business analysis
and
consulting business
 ・Biz_CAD is a tool dedicated to business modeling, which enhances the efficiency of modeling work several times compared with general office softwares.

・Biz_CAD pursues the comprehensibility for end users. This characteristics of Biz_CAD improves the communication and mutual understanding with end users.
E.g. If UML is adopted as modeling tool, end users will have to master the complicated notation of UML before everything.

・Reusing the models created in the past project which stored in the model repository of Biz_CAD, you can improve the efficiency of whole project.
E.g. the reusability of flowchart model is limited because it is created mainly based on sentences.
It is not necessary to re-write the models when they are reused because the modeling with Biz_CAD is done based on plotting the modeling components and setting their properties (parameters).

・These characteristics of Biz_CAD bring the Model-Based Consulting which effectively reuse the past output of modeling.
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Visualization of knowledge (business, system)
and Organizational inheritance		 ・BBiz_CAD enables to visualize and share the knowledge regarding structure, process and interaction of business and information systems which is held and hidden unconsciously by the employee of the software vendors and consulting firms. Biz_CAD reveals such knowhow and knowledge based on its integrated repository and visualization capability.

・Such visualized knowhow can be appealed to customers and prospects, and can be shared in the firm and also reused and enhanced.
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Utilization in the upstream process of system integration project ・Biz_CAD can be utilized as a tool for visualization of business process, extracting, definition of the functions to be implemented and also communication platform for interaction with customers.

・If Biz_CAD, which is based on object-oriented methodology, is adopted as a tool for requirements definition phase of IT project, artifacts can be inherited to the downstream process (with UML) smoothly.
Cf. It is not easy nor efficient to inherit the output of Non object-oriented models like flowchart or BPMN to lower process, because they are created mainly based on sentences and they must be reconstructed.

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Improve the competitive power ・The experience and knowhow can be appealed to the prospects visually and specifically through showing the actual and visual best practice model in the presentation.

・The competitive power is improved by presenting the concrete and visual To-Be model which can be grasped by executives at a first glance.
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Perpetuating the relationship with customer ・Biz_CAD enables to perpetuate the relation with the customer because the Biz_CAD models can be utilized continuously without abandoning as just a tool for the project.
※If the output of project is flowchart, it will not be utilized continuously in the enterprise mainly because of its less added value. In case of UML, they will not survive in the actual business field because they are complicated and difficult to understand for non-expert persons.
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Establish the direct connection with BPR section and business planning section ・By utilizing Biz_CAD, the direct interaction can be done with project owners including executives and managers of the customer corporation, because Biz_CAD is a platform for examination and representation of the business model and the model created with Biz_CAD can be grasped at a first glance by any position of employee.

・The direct channel with the executives and planning sections accelerates to acquire the profitable projects.		 ✓ ✓
Selling of best practice template The best practice templates which represents the know-how and experience which created based on past projects has a value to sell in the market, and bring the profit and will raise the reputation of your company. ✓ ✓
Profit as a Biz_CAD agent If you become an agent to sell Biz_CAD, you can acquire profit as well as reputation of market leader of Biz_CAD. ✓ ✓