AlchemyBPM

A Management System for

Fundamental Business Processes

Dale Scott (dscott@bjservices.com)

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 A not-uncommon situation

● Ad-hoc processes
● Lack of formal infrastructure
● Knowledge trapped in vertical silos
● Tasks crossing silos are difficult to manage,
track, and report on.
● No consensus on basic specific information
● Decision making based on inference and
unsubstantiated claims

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 Data filing system

Production BOM
Schedule Spreadsheet
S/N Network Mechanical
Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet Project CAE Vault
Directories

Vendor Mechanical
and Drawing
Personal contractor ECO Network DirectoryNon-Conformance
E-Mail drawings folder Spreadsheet

Personal Software
Sales Test Results
Network Version Matrix
Forecast Network Directory
Directories Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet Critical Part
Spreadsheet

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 The Solution

● Shared access to trusted data

● Product data (spec's, design files, BOMs)
● Project data (projects, timesheets & schedules)
● Manufacturing data (test results, lots, serial #'s)
● Corrective action (NCR, FRACAS)
● Informal knowledge (notes, analysis reports)
● Training requirements and fulfillment
● User-customizable real-time reporting

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 AlchemyBPM

DMS
Document
Management
System

TMS PMS
Training Project
Management Management
System System

Knowledge-Based
Decision
Making

KB ERP
Collaborative Enterprise
Knowledge Base Resource
Planning

CAS
Corrective Action
System

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 Everyone benefits
Senior Management
Real-time decision support
information and
dashboards, cost analysis,
CEO / COO forecasting, QA reporting ...

VP VP VP

Sales Semi-Connected Users

Job Quoting, Client Job Field Service, Field Sales,
Costing, Project Status, Home Office, Travel ...
Manufacturing Status,
CRM, ...
AlchemyBPM

Manufacturing
MRP, Incoming QA, Work
Engineering Instructions, Test Procedures,
Project Management, Test Results, ECO, ...
Mechanical, Electronic,
Software, Design Vaulting, Part
Specifications, Bills of
Materials, Verification & Quality
Validation Testing, ECO, ... Non-Conformance reports and
Purchasing followup action
MRP, Vendors, Part
Specifications, ECOs, ...

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 Server structure

DMS ERP
KB AlchemyBPM PhpMyAdmin SquirrelMail
Document Enterprise Resource
Knowledge Base Components Database Admin Web-mail
Management System Planning

PMS CAS TMS Lynx Admin

Project Corrective Action Training Management Text-based www Applications
Management System System System Client

PHP5
Server-Side Courier IMAP
Scripting IMAP Server

Courier Authlib
Low-Level
IMAP Postfix
Services Apache MySQL
Authentication MTA (Mail
HTTP Server Database Server
Transfer Agent)
OpenSSL NoIP ProcMail
SSL/TLS Tookit DDNS Client MDA (Mail
Delivery Agent)
Cyrus SASL NTP
OpenSSH
Simple Auth Network Time
Secure Shell
& Security Client

FreeBSD Unix-like Operating System

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 The Swift Construction Company

● The AlchemyBPM Reference Design

● Fully functional fictional high-tech design,
manufacturing and sales organization
● Complex enough to demonstrate AlchemyBPM
functionality, simple enough to understand
● Based on ISO 9001:2008 compliance
● Active project development, engineering design,
purchasing, sales, manufacturing, inventory con-
trol, issue resolution, etc.

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 Fully Free and Open Source

● AlchemyBPM can be used for any purpose

without external controls, license fees or
maintenance contracts
● AlchemyBPM can be innovated upon without
restriction
● AlchemyBPM services can be readily obtained
because the software is based on popular and
open technologies
● Innovations and support can be shared, reducing
individual cost
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 Licensing

● AlchemyBPM
● Documents licensed under the CreativeCommons ''Attribution-ShareAlike''
3.0 Unported license (share and remix the work with attribution and
the resulting work must be distributed under the same license)
● Swift Construction Company
● Documents and data licensed under the CreativeCommons ''Attribution''
3.0 Unported license (share and remix the work without restriction
with attribution)
● Software licensed under the Simplifed BSD license (free to do anything)
● Component Projects
● GNU GPL (share and remix the work with attribution and the resulting
work must be distributed under the same license)

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 By adopting a Product Data Management focus,
SMEs will benefit from “… increased revenues
(19%), reduced product cost (17%) and decreased
product development cost (16%)” and will be at a
significant competitive disadvantage if they do not!
The PLM for Small to Medium-Size Manufacturers Benchmark Report,
March 2006, Aberdeen Group

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Due to the pervasive nature of the Internet, the topo-
logy of society is changing from hub & spoke to
mesh. As that has happened, the way that business
interests are conducted has been migrating from a
world of secrecy, giving confidence and security, to
a world of transparency with privacy, giving confid-
ence and security.
Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer and Director, Sun Microsystems
2008

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Combine enterprise resource planning (ERP) soft-
ware with business intelligence (BI) and you have
the “perfect storm” for improving performance and
visibility in information management strategies.
ERP/BI Connection: Adding Value Through Actionable Intelligence
Aberdeen Group Inc.

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 Q&A

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