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== The Optimization & Simulation Trend ==
This enables organizations to experiment with a process, quickly determine process alternatives and identify which alternatives are likely to produce the best outcomes under certain conditions. Optimization and simulation tools are useful technologies to support, in essence, process experimentation. These tools use a more scientific approach to process design and implementation.

Optimization and simulation tools for BPM use an explicit process model (that is, an imitation of a business process) and enable the user (that is, the experimenter) to experiment with the process over time. Optimization and simulation allow the experimenter — perhaps a business process analyst — to see how the process holds up over time or in response to specific events. Does it bog down? Does the process break? What might we predict based on past behavior in production? Are there enough resources to handle all the calls, loans, claims and other demands? Should I shift resources, and are they available?

In other words, optimization and simulation allow you to run the process as if it were running in the real world. However, unlike processes running in the real world, if the optimized and simulated process breaks, no one gets hurt. It is all a simulation and it can be re-optimized and re-run. By using simulation and optimization tools, the assumptions, constraints and scenarios of a process context can be verified with more certainty before the process model is actually deployed in the real world.

Clearly, a prerequisite for performing business process optimization and simulation is that you must have an explicit business process model — the "imitation" mentioned in the previous definition. Business process modelling is a technique to graphically express how business processes and associated strategies are interrelated. Process modelling is used to better understand and diagnose the business process, as well as the behavior of all the participating constituents within the process. While process modelling is generally a static representation of the business process under study, simulation adds a dynamic component to this model.

This technology profile specifically reflects the use of optimization and simulation tools when applied to designing and improving business processes by using explicit process models. It does not cover constraint-based optimization (CBO) and simulation tools that are used for digital control systems, factory scheduling, transportation route scheduling and other operations research and decision management applications that are not centered on process models.

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