For SOA Architects, this means that it is no longer acceptable to struggle with complex IT modeling tools only to produce static, proprietary flow charts that only shows an isolated line of business without reflecting their real world implementations. Today's SOA Architects need process models that are:

• Intuitive and Standardized
  A business-friendly, non-proprietary notation such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) provides a consistent understanding of process details across the whole team.

• Validated by Simulation
  See the dynamic behavior of your processes so you can confirm proposed process changes and identify hard-to-find bottlenecks and potential optimizations.

• Accurate and Reflects Reality
  Analyze and Optimize the same BPMN process models that business analysts and architects work with.

• Drives SOA Implementations
  Work cooperatively with business analysts to ensure Business Processes are implemented as designed.

• Easily Documented and Reviewed
  Create more accurate processes by involving all stakeholders with on-line reviews and with easy-to-read, automatically generated documents.

• Comprehensive and Span the Enterprise
  Works with Business Architects to clearly show the enterprise-wide impact of proposed process changes

Today's SOA and Business Architect will find their best solution at eClarus.

eClarus Business Process Modeler is a family of Process Modeling solutions for designing, validating and optimizing processes that's destined for automation in a SOA environment. eClarus has a solution for each member of the team including Business Analysts, Business Architects and SOA Architects.

eClarus Business Process Modeler for SOA Architects is a business process diagramming, modeling, simulation, documentation and IT collaboration tool designed specifically for the needs of SOA and Business Architects. Like the Business Analyst solution, this powerful, yet easy-to-use, tool helps Business Architects communicate and collaborate more effectively with process stakeholders and IT, for delivering Web Services applications. Additionally, this solution addresses the unique needs of the SOA Architect with capabilities that help to validate, communicate and implement. Functional components included are:

• eClarus BPMN Modeler - Enables process experts to create correct-by-construction BPMN models that incorporate BPEL and WSDL without becoming BPMN experts.

• eClarus Shared Model - Empowers all team members to collaborate by sharing the same business models with all eClarus configurations.

• eClarus Process Reviewer - Supports a more comprehensive review of your processes by including all of your stakeholder's proposed diagram changes and their comments. Identify proposed process changes instantly with visual differences between As-Is and To-Be processes.

• eClarus Document Generator - Automatically generates customized Microsoft Word documents that clearly communicates proposed business processes and designs using industry-standard BPMN diagrams.

• eClarus Model Exchanger - Preserves your process and modeling investment by importing and exporting common industry standard formats such as Microsoft Visio, UML, IBM Rational ROSE and XPDL.

• eClarus Extensibility - Addresses company and project-specific needs for accessing valuable process data through open APIs and by creating custom properties.

• eClarus BPMN Simulator - Improves process performance by validating the dynamics of new and existing complex processes through interactive simulations that involve resource-modeling, key performance indicators and what-if scenarios.

• eClarus BIRT Report Designer - Provides a comprehensive picture of your processes and designs by creating customized reports, charts and lists from process data in eClarus as well as all of your standard Application Lifecycle Management tools