Buyer's Checklist

Feature

Stages

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FOR PROCESS MODELER

Intuitive modeling interface - Easy to use, drag-and-drop user interface for building process structures.

Modeling without technical notation – Process modelling with Stages does not require modeling languages or any other technical notation like for example BPMN

Flexibility of process structure – high flexibility of the underlying process structure in order to meet the organizational structure , usage of various process structures is possible

Support of process variants – Stages supports the creation of process variants through core processes and process inheritance and update mechanisms to cope with complex organizational processes

Governance for processes - Mandatory flags, associations rules, dependencies between process elements and consistency checks facilitate process consistency.

Compliance management – Integrated industry standards, a tool-based mapping and automated gap analyses and PIID generation reduce efforts for standard compliance.

Assessment efficiency – Project compliance maps at the touch of a button based on compliance links and project information brings time-savings during assessments preparation and performance

Version management – Complete version management of processes and documents

FOR PROJECT TEAMS

Comprehensive view – High flexibility in process views providing a combination of visual and textual representation makes processes more understandable and increases user acceptance; process descriptions can be enhanced through HTML, click-maps, external links, tables and any kind of formatting

Web-based approach – Modelers, process users and readers can access Stages processes from all over the world

Tool-based tailoring – Tailoring based on organization specific tailoring criteria that can be defined by the process modeler

Access to project pocuments – Stages supports process oriented document management

Automated process visualization – automated process graphics save time and facilitate the navigation of process users

Additional supporting components – Integrated process wiki, Infocenter, Issue Tracker, Download Center

FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Analytics and reporting – Custom configured metric reports will be generated in real-time and allow continuous tracking of  process performance

Profound access and user permission concept – Enhanced and modular permission concept for profound access control

Interfaces to other systems – Stages integrates with ALM & PLM systems as well as with project, requirements, change, test and document management solutions (see full list)

Process change management – management of process changes is supported through the integrated Stages issue tracking component