Simulating Business Processes

TIBCO Business Studio has simulation capabilities that make it possible to test and refine business processes before implementation. Simulation is an abstraction of reality made possible by making assumptions about the real Process.

All Activities in your Process must be assigned a duration for simulation purposes and the Participants who perform the Activities assigned unit costs. As a result, metrics such as the cost of an Activity (the Activity duration multiplied by the Participant unit cost) can be calculated.

Note: There is no concept of sub-processes in simulation. If you want to simulate a sub-process, you can either assign it a duration and build this into the entire duration for the process, or you can separate it out as a process, and simulate it individually.

Simulation can then be run to identify areas of the Process that can be improved such as bottlenecks and areas of high cost or delay.