ProVision® features and functionality
The Open Text Metastorm modeling suite consists of:
ProVision®, which is used to model information
Knowledge Exchange®, which is used to store models and objects, created with the help of ProVision, on a central server
If there is only one person who is modeling, there is no need for Knowledge Exchange®. However, as soon as you get a team of modelers, you need a mechanism to share objects and models. This is the problem that Knowledge Exchange® resolves. It uses the same paradigm as software development. When teams of software developers work together on the same code, they check parts out. While checked out, objects are locked. Another user can check out the same objects as read-only. When a modeler checks in the objects, the locks are released.
As models are checked in, Knowledge Exchange® makes a website copy. Thus, users with the appropriate permissions can view the models using Internet Explorer. They do not need a license to do this. Not only can they...
