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Simulating and optimizing processes
Lombardi Optimizer enables you to:
- Simulate your processes while you're developing them to understand how well those process models might perform.
Lombardi Optimizer runs simulations using estimates that you provide for staffing levels, activity execution times, and so on. Simulating your processes during development enables you to test and refine process designs before implementation.
- Analyze your processes after they're up and running using historical data stored in the Performance Data Warehouse.
For each process, with autotracking enabled, you can measure actual execution, wait, and other times. You can also track the values of specific business data (process variables) as they move through each step in a process. Running historical analyses using Lombardi Optimizer enables you to measure and then improve the efficiency of your processes.
The Optimizer is a tool designed to help you understand and refine the process models that you develop in Lombardi. It does not analyze the hardware or other systems involved in running your processes. For example, if you suspect that issues identified by Lombardi Optimizer might be due to the performance of hardware or other systems, you can use tools from those vendors to investigate further.
The Optimizer provides a variety of analysis scenarios, ranging from simple simulations to validate your overall process modeling strategy to advanced what-if comparative analyses.
Lombardi Optimizer enables you to... Benefit Simulate process performance Understand process design issues that could affect performance before process implementation Identify bottlenecks and other issues Optimize processes already in production Compare actual process performance to simulations Analyze how well your processes are doing compared to the goals that you set Compare simulations to historical performance data Analyze what would happen if you made specific changes to your processes Simultaneously analyze multiple processes from a single or multiple process applications
- Identify resources that are over or under-utilized across processes and applications
- Compare performance from month to month or quarter to quarter for specific sets of processes
- Experiment with the performance of multiple processes by simulating the addition of resources to one or more participant groups and finding the best results across processes and workloads
To take full advantage of the Lombardi Optimizer, you need to complete the tasks
See:
- Configuration requirements for simulation
- Configuration requirements for optimization
- Run simulations, historical analyses, and comparisons
- Reviewing results
- Sample simulations
- Sample historical analyses and comparisons