Introduction to XTRAC Process Designer

Process Designer includes the following software components:

• XTRAC Process Data Dictionary
• XTRAC Process Modeler
• XTRAC Process Manager

XTRAC Process Data Dictionary

The Data Dictionary stores your organization's data that was created in the Data Dictionary Editor. This data can be used in process diagrams. For example, a user task that asks for a customer's name may include a data object that requires entry of the customer's first and last name. The Data Dictionary Editor enables you to create new data types and to edit existing data.

For more information, see Using the Data Dictionary Editor.

XTRAC Process Modeler

Process Modeler, also known as "Designer" incorporates industry standard business process model notation (BPMN2) tools. The BPMN2 specification uses standardized shapes, connectors, tasks, and data objects to help you create graphical representations of your business processes in your business model process diagrams. The process diagrams you create can be saved in a central repository so that other users in the organization can check them out to create new versions from them or to simply view them. A reusable process that has been checked into the repository can now be reused by being mapped to call activities within other process diagrams.

For more information, see Creating Process Models and Diagrams.

XTRAC Process Manager

Process Manager allows you to deploy completed and validated process models and manage them. Each time a process is started, it becomes an instance. The Process work area displays key indicators such as status and jeopardy information of a process instance. Operators interact with your process instance in XTRAC Workbench by updating work items from their queues. You can monitor each process, view it's progress and troubleshoot when a problem occurs.

For more information, see Deploying Process Models.