An overview of Control 2007
What is Control 2007? It's software that lets you manage and transform your business through process management. It does so by letting you fully understand and align all the processes carried out within your organization, and then use them operationally.
Processes for People. The processes you capture using Control 2007 are designed to be understood and used by every person in your organization. They become the simplest and easiest way to understand how you work.
Use the navigation options below to find out more about how Control 2007 can help your organization succeed with process management initiatives.
Capture & Define - Analyse & Improve processes - Manage aligned processes and related information - Communicate and ensure adoption - Microsoft sharepoint and control 2007
Capture & Define
Capture and define standard processes and related information
With Control 2007 it is extremely easy and fast to capture processes. This enables you to use Control 2007 in live process-capture workshops; to capture processes at the speed of conversation. This significantly increases the buy-in of process stakeholders while reducing the time, effort and cost of people involved.
When every process has been captured, Control 2007 allows associated roles, information and performance metrics to be linked to the relevant point in the process. The capture of this knowledge is essential to fully understand the purpose and impact of each process.
With clear understanding of every process, unsatisfactory or broken processes can immediately be identified by the process stakeholders, prioritized and flagged for further analysis or redesign.
Analyze and Improve processes
There are many popular approaches to process analysis and improvement, including Six Sigma, Lean and TQM. What all these approaches have in common is the requirement of a clear and thorough understanding of the processes conducted by an organization.
Control 2007 provides this understanding. To help support process improvement it includes specific capabilities such as Activity Based Costing, Scenario Analysis and Business Impact analysis.
Manage aligned processes and related information
Constant across the majority of organizations is change and the challenge to manage it. Strategy, technology, compliance and customers can all drive change. And when change happens, it impacts processes and related information within the organization.
Control 2007 manages the integrity of the relationship between processes and associated information throughout the change cycle. To do this, its functionality includes:
- Management of change requests
- Managed draft and release cycles
- Automatic notification of change
- Full audit history
Communicate & Ensure Adoption
The value of any process management or improvement initiative comes when processes are consistently adopted and executed by the organization. To enable this to happen, Control 2007 delivers personalized access to process, performance and operational information, via a collaborative portal. This dramatically speeds availability of content; but also ensures you:
- Easily keep the content up to date
- Inform people of what they need to know and alert them when content is updated
- Enable all stakeholders to use valuable process information and metrics in the execution of their job.
- Drive end user engagement, validate adoption and encourage innovation with Enterprise Feedback Management
Once you've mastered process communication and adoption, you're ready to tackle all manner of business improvement initiatives for your organization. Visit the Solutions area to see how customers are leveraging their processes using Control 2007 to enhance their business performance.
Microsoft SharePoint and Control 2007
Delivering the "Intelligent Operations Manual" with SharePoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has risen in importance during the past few years for many of Nimbus' clients. Worldwide, the majority of Enterprise Portal initiatives are now powered by SharePoint. Such portals promise a collaborative knowledge management environment, in which employees can more easily find the content (such as documents) relevant to their tasks, and collaborate with colleagues in combination with that content. But in addition to documents, the portal gives personalised access to structured data (business intelligence) and access to application systems essential to the organisation.
Together Nimbus and Microsoft have collaborated to provide Control 2007's "best of breed" business process management capability within the SharePoint environment. Nimbus is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the relationship is of strategic importance to both companies. For Nimbus we leverage the leading portal technology platform as well as Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 for metrics. For Microsoft Nimbus Control 2007 provides strategically valuable content in customers' SharePoint environments, so that rather than just being an improved document collaboration space; SharePoint becomes the "Intelligent Operations Manual" for the organization. Control 2007 is therefore an ideal vehicle with which to drive strategic adoption of SharePoint from CEO to file clerk.
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