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Selection of available CASE tools
Šmahel, Martin ; Chlapek, Dušan (advisor) ; Řepa, Václav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is aimed at search, selection and comparison of CASE tools for data, object and process modeling and teamwork management. The contribution of this thesis is a recommendation of a suitable tool for computer science courses teaching at the University of Economics in Prague. Research of favorable academic pricing and licensing conditions that can be applied during acquisition of selected tools is also a part of this thesis. In the first part of the thesis requirements of courses in particular functional areas are defined. Criteria for tools comparison are drawn up from these requirements. The next part is focused on CASE tools market research and tools for the comparison selection. Selected tools are compared using defined criteria and their academic pricing deals are explored. The last part of the thesis contains recommendation of an affordable CASE tool to support teaching at the University of Economics.
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Modelování business procesů: události a stavy procesu
Svatoš, Oleg ; Řepa, Václav (advisor) ; Bukovský, Ivo (referee) ; Šimek, Vlastimil (referee) ; Závadský, Ján (referee)
This thesis focuses on modeling of business processes which are very sensitive on correct capturing of process details characterized as process events and states. At the beginning of the analysis are the process events and states classified into three types: activity related, object related and time related. Each type is analyzed in detail and there are formulated states and their transitions that form a lifecycle of each individual type of the process state. There are discussed contemporary process modeling languages starting from the very popular to relatively less known, all representing slightly different approach towards process modeling. The analysis of process events and states shows that the contemporary process modeling languages cover the defined lifecycles only partially. There are picked three popular process modeling languages and put through a test case, which is based on Czech regulation of a building process. This test case allows us to review their capabilities to capture the process events including the ways how they get along with their only partial support. Upon analysis of process events and states and the unsatisfying results of the con-temporary process modeling languages in the test case, there is introduced a new process modeling language which, as demonstrated, is capable of capturing many of the process events and states in the test case in much simpler and precise way that the three reviewed process modeling languages were able to.
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Business Process Modeling Standards
Klička, Lukáš ; Řepa, Václav (advisor) ; Sigmund, Tomáš (referee)
Business process modeling plays an important role for the documentation and analysis of organizational processes and for the specification of requirements for information systems. Currently, there are many standards for process modeling, and each represents a different approach to modeling and provides different opportunities for creating models. Thus, same models created in different modeling languages differ in terms of their expressiveness, according to each standard. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the effectiveness of selected business process modeling standards. The effectiveness of standards will be evaluated on two levels. First, in terms of their semantics and second, in terms of their syntax. Evaluation of standards in terms of their semantics will be based on the comparison of standards with a business process metamodel created within the project Opensoul. This model defines a set of basic elements and their associations at a basic level of process modeling. Evaluation of standards in terms of their syntax will be based on the comparison of standards with a framework proposed by Moody and Hillegersberg. The results of this comparison should show which standard best supports defined criteria. The evaluation framework will be applied on the following process modeling standards: BPMN, EPC and IDEF3. Based on the results obtained their strength and weaknesses will be discussed. The main contribution of this thesis can be seen both in the analysis of the element set of selected process modeling standards and further in the comparison of standards according to the evaluation framework.
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Process analysis of the Prague Congress Centre, Inc.
Filipová, Andrea ; Oškrdal, Václav (advisor) ; Vymětalová, Markéta (referee)
The theme of this thesis is a process analysis of the Prague Congress Centre. The purpose of diploma work is to propose more effective running of processes in the company. The theoretical part focuses on business processes, process analysis and graphical languages. Another part deals with company's reservation system and analyzes typical characteristics of reservation systems. The main focus of the thesis is on process analysis of Prague Congress Centre, Inc. Current situation is analyzed and more effective operations which run through the whole company are proposed and evaluated. The emphasis is put on differences evaluation between present and proposed situation and suggestion for change. Another part deals with gaps detection in reservation system which is closely connected with chosen analyzed processes. These gaps, up to certain stage, do not allow effective running of chosen processes.
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Modelování podnikových procesů
Panuška, Martin ; Řepa, Václav (advisor) ; Svatoš, Oleg (referee)
In the master's thesis we are concerned with the logical perspective on business process model-ing. The logical perspective on business process modeling has several advantages. First, being a formal logical system, first-order logic let us thoroughly understand the foundations of process modeling. Second, after we understand the logical foundations of business process modeling, we are free to build a BPM language based entirely on logic, or map an existing language onto logic, which may be useful for artificial reasoning. Third, if the business process model is mapped to logic (or another declarative language) it can be easily stored in a declarative knowledge base. Forth, logic based process models can be used in companies as a basis for knowledge manage-ment. And fifth, the science of logic offers a number of various semantic enhancements, which can be used in favor of better business process modeling expressiveness. The first objective of the thesis is to perform a thorough review of the literature of both our fields -- the business process modeling and temporal logic. The related second objective is to study the ability of logic to represent processes and the notion of time in general, and to offer techniques for logical process representation. Subsequently, the examples should be provided in order to present that the selected techniques are capable of performing what is sketched in the first paragraph. The third objective is to propose improvements of the current business process modeling approach and provide relevant examples. Eventually, means of extending the tech-niques presented can be proposed, too. The major contribution of the thesis is that it constitutes a reasonable basis for further research in the chosen field. For novices or even experienced in the subject it represents a good stepping stone.
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Software tools for modeling business processes
Fara, Miroslav ; Martanová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Chocholatý, Drahomír (referee)
Thesis focuses on comparing the two tools for modeling business processes -- Microsoft Visio and ARIS Express in aspect of their usability for students of the subject 4IT215 -- Information Systems Analysis and Design. Thesis contains a brief description of each tool and their application to the selected requirements of the subject 4IT215 -- Information Systems Analysis and Design that must students complete during the semester. The benefit of this thesis is establishment of criteria (according requirements of the course) for comparison of these tools. Result of comparison has been supplemented by expression of students, who chose in the questionnaire (among others) the most appropriate tool for fulfilling all the tasks and requirements of the course. Objectives of thesis were achieved through studying literature, subjective selecting and evaluating criteria and objective contribution of students of the subject 4IT215 -- Information Systems Analysis and Design.
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Process model of manufacturing company
Kuběna, Lubomír ; Řepa, Václav (advisor) ; Pálka, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with process modeling respectively application specific modeling methodology developed by prof. Ing. Václav Řepa Csc. for the selected company active in manufacturing. The main objective and part of the thesis forms creation of process model. It's preceded by introductory description of the selected company and its global long-term goals set by management, SWOT analysis revealing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, on the basis of which is elaborated a strategy to exploit opportunities for the development of strengths. Before analyzing the processes and the design of process model Balanced Scorecard analysis is realized. Within its four perspectives, I propose and summarize the identified targets, along with their metrics, current and desired state. Further it's followed by process analysis and elaboration of process models to global (Eriksson-Penker model) and detailed (BPMN notation) level. Models have added the descriptive tables and description and main points of the design are summarized in the end. The main objective of work is followed by others, represented by the comparison of designed model and current situation in company, where is implemented quality management system ISO 9001:2000 (comparing similarities and differences, problems of quality system, etc.) and assessment of enviromental maturity of the company and its functioning from process perspective, using the knowledge model Michael Hammer PEMM (Process & Enterprise Maturity Model). Information obtained from the analysis and designs are put into context with each other to ensure consistency of whole design and my thesis and summarized in Chapter Conclusion.
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Comparison of standards for process modeling
Kalina, Jaroslav ; Řepa, Václav (advisor) ; Smolík, Jan (referee)
The scope of this thesis is the field of business process modeling and additionally the usability of business process models in areas like conceptual analysis of IS/ICT, business process reengineering and business process management. For the purpose of evaluation of the usability of current standards for business process modeling, an framework for comparison of various characteristics of these standards is proposed. This thesis has two aims. Primarily, to develop an approach for evaluation of business process modeling standards, and as a secondary aim, to apply this evaluation model onto a set of selected standards for business process modeling and thus perform a comparison of these standards. The evaluation model has two main components. The first part is to create a set of characteristics which represent two existing points of view onto the exploitability business process modeling (e.g. during the development of IS/ICT and during BPR/BPM1). During the identification of particular characteristics, a research into the related literature and other sources has been performed to provide a sufficient basis for this activity. The second part of the developed approach is to the application of PEMM (Process & Enterprise Maturity Model), which was developed by Dr. M. Hammer for the purpose os auditing the maturity of business processes. Both of these parts are then put together into one evaluation framework. Based on information gathered from the respective specifications of particular standards, related literature and articles, we've performed an application of this evaluation framework on three standards for business process modeling: EPC, BPMN and IDEF3. The benefits of this thesis could be seen as a creation of a very own approach for evaluation of business process modeling standards. Additionally by performing the comparison of these three standards for business process modeling we've created a guideline which could be there fore applied by the potential reader during the decision making of what standard to use for business process modeling (in the context of expected purpose of this modeling).
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