OREANDA-NEWS. December 15, 2011. Fujitsu today announced the immediate, worldwide availability of Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics V12, the latest edition of its business process discovery, monitoring and analysis software.

This product includes Business Process Discovery, Fujitsu's proprietary technology for automatically generating process flowcharts using business system logs, without impacting any production systems. This results in accurate visualizations of business processes with no need to conduct on-site inspections. The resulting flowcharts of business processes can be used to easily analyze such issues as processing times and processing routes.

Encompassing every business process in a company, this software can apply to those processes that have traditionally been difficult to monitor and easy to overlook—such as sales management, production management, customer-facing processes, and internal accounting. That makes it easy for users to get an accurate, quantitative view of a company's status and trouble-spots, to identify problems, and to make improvements efficiently. In addition, the software is easy to deploy using Fujitsu's own Smart Setup, which is based on Fujitsu's Smart Software Technology(1).

In today's difficult business environment, companies are constantly transforming their business models and ICT systems along with their business processes. They also document and analyze so that they can improve inefficient processes. Until now, this has required considerable manpower to conduct on-site inspections.

Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics automatically generates business process flowcharts based on system logs and data, so that managers can literally get a clearer picture of the state of their business processes.

Business Process Discovery that makes this possible is used by Fujitsu's Field Innovators(2) as well as by affiliated companies in their business consulting services. To date, it has been used at more than 70 global companies. Gartner(3) has cited Automated Business Process Discovery as a highly beneficial technology in the field of business process management.

In addition to its use in-house at Fujitsu as a tool for monitoring and analyzing business systems, Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics is also being made available worldwide through an OEM agreement with CA Technologies.

"Through the alliance of Fujitsu and CA Technologies, both companies have been offering Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics and CA APM to help customers improve agility by providing broad and deep insight into the performance of business processes, services, applications and transactions, and the quality of the end user experience," said Mike Sargent, general manager, Service Assurance, CA Technologies. "We welcome the release of Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics V12, which enhances its process discovery capabilities and provides enriched customer insight into IT environments. This new version is designed to enable customers to address critical IT and business management challenges, including quality service delivery and end-user experience management."