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and then dynamically generate alternative options to identify what changes, taken
today, would maintain the process in the most efficient manner over the long term.
We believe that simulation-based BAM will prove to be the most powerful and
flexible approach to BAM and will increasingly be relied on by those with more
complex processes.
Endnotes
1. Gartner Group, Business activity monitoring: e Data Perspective, February 20, 2002.
For more information about SIMPROCESS, check www.simprocess.com.
The Authors
Joe DeFee is senior vice president and manager of the Advanced Systems Division
Group at CACI. He has twenty-four years of information systems design, software
development,