AOK: Signavio process platform for a health insurance company

Professional business process management is an important tool for health insurance companies. An organization-wide process platform is being deployed for the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Brandenburg (AOK).

The Signavio Process Editor Enterprise Edition replaces a range of other tools. Several thousand process models are migrated from an ARIS-installation and automatically fed into the Signavio Process Editor.

"The Signavio Process Editor offers possibilities we simply wouldn't have with other tools. By deploying the process platform we expect enormous synergy effects at AOK Brandenburg. As we have already made excellent experience in previous projects, the Signavio team is the first choice for us." Dr. Anke-Britt Möhr, Division Manager Central Services at AOK Brandenburg

1&1: Effective Business/IT alignment based on BPMN

1&1 uses the Signavio Process Editor to face one of the biggest challenges in the dynamic market of telecommunication providers: collaboration on business processes between business and IT departments. Signavio's BPMN 2.0 capabilities as well as the direct integration to the process engine jBPM are key factors for continuous improvements to the end customer processes. The processes are agreed upon from the business side first, then handed over to the IT department and enriched with detailed technical configuration - everything's done in the same tool.

"The user acceptance of the Signavio Process Editor was outstanding from day one. Not many software tools can claim this. The following things were crucial for us as well: platform independence (Linux, Windows, Mac) and the direct integration with the jBPM execution environment." Michael Salzmann, Head of Software Development Consumer, 1&1 Internet AG

Apaxo: A focus on processes right from the start

It is important to understand and continuously improve the own processes, also for small and medium-sized companies - especially in times of growth. Apaxo GmbH documents its business processes for designing the interactions with partners, integrating new employees quickly and keeping an eye on the IT requirements. Some processes are automated and numerous process steps are being carried out outside the organization. Preserving an overview is of key importance.

Apaxo opted for BPMN and the Signavio Process Editor as a Service in order to manage the processes behind http://couchtalk.de professionally.

"The software as a service offering is ideal for us. We avoid the investment risk and we can start immediately - without any software installation. We can rely on high availability. That way we always stay focused on our processes and our core business." Manuel Blechschmidt, CTO, Apaxo GmbH

ITAB: Designing clinical paths with BPMN

Clinical paths show how patients are to be treated through diagnosis and therapy in the presence of a certain disease. Thanks to professional modeling methods such as BPMN, paths can be simulated before their implementation in hospitals and they can serve as documentation of the treatments. This allows for approximations regarding resource utilization, cost and delays. Thanks to standardized methods the exchange of paths between hospitals is possible for the first time. Costly path design tasks can be sped up through reuse and quick adaption.

"We use the Signavio Process Editor because it fully supports BPMN. The possibility to transfer paths beyond the boundaries of hospitals is unbeatable and creates a true advantage, because the models are designed in a platform-independent way using the Signavio Process Editor." Rüdiger Molle, ITAB IT-Architekturbüro

Process modeling in academia - free and easy with the Signavio Academic Initiative

Lecturers, researchers and students can now use professional business process management through the Signavio Academic Initiative. A dedicated installation is available free of charge, including all features. No hassle with organizing licenses. Lecturers can invite their students into their process work space and distribute modeling tasks.

The BPMN Teaching Package contains a number of exercises that can be reused in lectures directly. Additional functionality specifically targeted at an academic audience, e.g. support for Petri nets and extensive functionality for formal verification, allow for a deep-dive into the semantics of process modeling languages. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , if you are interested in the package.

"Thanks to the Signavio Process Editor we get extensive support at the Humboldt University: We avoid time-consuming software installations, can rely on a high-quality realization of the different process modeling languages, e.g. BPMN and EPC, and we even get exercises, that we can directly use in university classes." Prof. Dr. Jan Mendling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Other universities where the Signavio Process Editor (or its predecessor Oryx) is currently used by lecturers, researchers and students:

• BAW Hameln
• BTU Cottbus
• Donau-Universität Krems, Austria
• Fern-Uni Hagen
• FH Deggendorf
• FH Flensburg
• FH Hannover
• FH Mainz
• FHTW Berlin
• FHW Berlin
• Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam
• HS Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• HS Darmstadt
• HS Heilbronn
• HS Ravensburg-Weingarten
• HS Wismar
• HTW Dresden
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
• Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
• TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• TU Berlin
• TU München
• TU Wien, Österreich
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Universidade Estudial de Campinas, Brasil
• Universität Augsburg
• Universität Duisburg Essen
• Universität Hannover
• Universität Heidelberg
• Universität Köln
• Universität Münster
• Universität Paderborn
• Universität Passau
• Universität Potsdam
• Universität Rostock
• Universität Stuttgart
• Universität Tübingen
• University of Gabès, Tunisia
• Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
• WU Wien, Austria