Quickstart tutorial 4-Running simulations
Introduction
Simulations enable organizations to observe how a process will perform in response to a certain set of circumstances or inputs to the process, just as it would in a real-life work environment.
The ability to run simulations is a powerful tool in business analysis. When you run simulations using WebSphere® Business Modeler, you can determine the current efficiency of any of your company's existing processes. You can also vary the process input to provide multiple "what if" scenarios. You can adjust resources, current allocations, schedules, costs – any condition that might affect the results of one of your organization's processes. This capability can help you plan your business operations, anticipate bottlenecks, and prepare for any contingency.
In this module, you will run a simulation for the Quickstart Finance process diagram that you created in a previous module. First, you will simulate the process, becoming familiar with the steps and tools involved. Then you will adjust some of the inputs to the process and observe how adding different input to the entire process, or even to a single task within the process, can affect the outcome. Remember, as you work through this module to think about your own organization and the processes that you can simulate, and how you can run both current state and "what if" scenarios.
The ability to run simulations is a powerful tool in business analysis. When you run simulations using WebSphere® Business Modeler, you can determine the current efficiency of any of your company's existing processes. You can also vary the process input to provide multiple "what if" scenarios. You can adjust resources, current allocations, schedules, costs – any condition that might affect the results of one of your organization's processes. This capability can help you plan your business operations, anticipate bottlenecks, and prepare for any contingency.
In this module, you will run a simulation for the Quickstart Finance process diagram that you created in a previous module. First, you will simulate the process, becoming familiar with the steps and tools involved. Then you will adjust some of the inputs to the process and observe how adding different input to the entire process, or even to a single task within the process, can affect the outcome. Remember, as you work through this module to think about your own organization and the processes that you can simulate, and how you can run both current state and "what if" scenarios.
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
- Create a simulation profile
- Run a simulation
- Develop simulation scenarios
- Update simulation settings
- Analyze your simulation results
- Print reports based on your simulation results
- Export your results to different file formats
How to run simulations
For this module, ensure that you have set your business modeling mode to Basic. Before completing this module, be sure that you have either completed the previous modules in this tutorial or installed the Quickstart Finance sample that is included with the product. (For instructions, see Importing the samples in the help documentation.) When you get to the exercises where you adjust the simulation inputs, you can follow the instructions exactly, or you can experiment by adding your own inputs to the simulation. The goal is to familiarize yourself with all aspects of simulations so that you can apply that knowledge when you are ready to simulate the processes of your own organization.
- Setting simulation preferences
Simulation preferences define the default settings for a new simulation snapshot and its initial profile. - Creating a simulation snapshot
A simulation snapshot shows a process model and its inputs at a particular moment in time. It includes the current simulation defaults and a simulation profile. You must create a simulation snapshot before you can run a simulation. - Running a simulation
Running a simulation enables you to observe the results of a process according to a specific set of inputs. - Updating simulation settings
Simulation settings define the conditions and behaviors for a process or task during a simulation. - Running a revised simulation
Running a revised simulation enables you to observe any changes in the results of a process after you modify the simulation's attributes. - Analyzing simulation results
You can perform detailed analysis on the results of your simulations to extract information regarding scheduling, costs, output, and other statistics pertaining to your processes.
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