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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

You're reading from   Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation Create and implement a successful business strategy for improved performance throughout the whole enterprise

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682527
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bill Aronson Bill Aronson
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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...

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