‘Business Process Management: Building End-to-end Process Solutions for the Agile Business’ available now through Aarkstore Enterprise

No Magic, Inc.®, a leading vendor of architecture modeling software, today announced the release of MagicDraw® UML 10.5, an upgrade of No Magic’s award-winning UML-based architecture tool. MagicDraw 10.5 extends its business process modeling capabilities to export Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The new version delivers a brand new integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis suite, updated NetBeans integration and improved GUI to increase flexibility and convenience using the tool.

No Magic continues its commitment to narrow the divide between business needs and the systems developed to meet those needs by extending a Business Process Modeling offering in its award-winning UML-based architecture tool. The new MagicDraw UML BPEL Export functionality allows the users to export their Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 1.1) compliant code from a Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagram. The outputted BPEL code can be used in BEA WebLogic 8.1.

“By leveraging our experience gained implementing the best support of UML and other standards from Object Management Group (OMG) in MagicDraw, we move to provide our customers the most complete standards compliant solution in Business Process area,” said Richard Green, CEO of No Magic.

The new brand integration with ProActivity Business Process Analysis Suite eliminates the gap separating business analysts from application analysts and system designers. Now MagicDraw UML imports static and dynamic structure information from ProActivity business models for instant creation/redesign of IT systems.

In addition to the new business process modeling offerings, No Magic continues to enrich its UML modeling capabilities. This new version delivers GUI improvements that increase the convenience and flexibility of working with MagicDraw UML. To reflect the changes in NetBeans IDE 4.X No Magic has updated the seamless integration with NetBeans IDE. This update allows the most standard compliant UML tool on the market to be used by the users of the latest NetBeans version.

About No Magic

Founded in 1995, No Magic Inc. is headquartered in Allen, Texas with operations worldwide. In 1998 No Magic released MagicDraw UML version 1.0, the first large scale application completely developed in Java, earning Sun’s “100% Java Application” credential. The tool has won numerous awards from the world’s most prestigious developers’ journals. In addition to the continued development of MagicDraw, No Magic, Inc. also provides software development outsourcing, consulting, enterprise architecture, business process, training services from its software development facilities in Kaunas, Lithuania and Bangkok, Thailand.

‘Business Process Management: Building End-to-end Process Solutions for the Agile Business’ available now through Aarkstore Enterprise

BPM, in its various forms, has been available since before the millennium, and in Group’s opinion today’s leading solutions comprise of a mature set of tools, products, and services that are fit for mainstream business use.

Most technology systems continue to be viewed by the business community as inhibitors of progress, rather than as innovative solutions capable of delivering agile operations, Business Process Management is being actively positioned as the exception to this rule. Business professionals continue to struggle with business and technology alignment issues, and are actively searching for business-enhancing technology solutions that are fit-for-purpose and come without the need to undertake major time-constraining redevelopments whenever operational changes occur. BPM, in its various forms, has been available since before the millennium, and in Group’s opinion today’s leading solutions comprise of a mature set of tools, products, and services that are fit for mainstream business use. KEY FINDINGS Business Process Management (BPM), as a product in its own right, has emerged from the competitive influences of the diverse workflow, integration, and re-engineering camps to deliver solutions that allow the intellect of business users to be a key driver of success. During the last two years solutions that operate under the BPM banner have become more functionally inclusive. When used to its best advantage, high-calibre BPM provides a systematic approach to improving business and operational processes. Cost-saving benefits may provide an initial attraction, but it is product quality and persistent usage that will drive the ongoing benefits of BPM. There remains a requirement to address the functional divide between what the BPM software vendors are delivering and what business services users really need from core BPM products. A Business Rules Management System (BRMS) approach to development will reduce the inefficiencies that exist within current development methodologies. The emergence of rules as a subset of BPM is an indication of the growing maturity of the market. Possibly the most important aspect of a rules repository, certainly in respect of the stated promise of BPM, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and BRMS, is the ability for the developer to re-use rules within multiple process deployments. Group positions SOA and its associated integration services as having a crucial role to play in the BPM service delivery picture. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) promises to keep processes running smoothly, but information overload could end up being counter-productive. BPM continues to struggle with standards and their agreed usage. Fundamentally if the sector cannot reach a consensus on the use of headline standards such as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), there is little chance of it progressing further down the scale.