After John
Doe played through the whole scenario on his notebook while Norma played the other part on her
notebook, he admitted: “I’m baffled …If anyone told me that you could create executable
processes this fast I wouldn’t have believed it. Seriously – it is barely lunchtime!”
“Yes … it is really amazing that we were able to finish this whole process in such a short
time,” Norma added. “You know, you are not the first consultants to visit our company. But you are
the first ones to provide us with a running solution after only a few hours.”
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John then asked a question, which he had been itching to ask since he started Metasonic Flow:
“We have now created a process and executed it. But how does that help our departments? I mean
could we take the process we just created and make our departments use it?”
Al answered: “Long story short: yes you could. You would need to install Metasonic Flow on
one of your servers and probably connect your user database to it. But yes – you could definitely
take that process and start using it in practice. With no alterations.”
John and Norma looked at each other, impressed. Norma then added: “And if we, for example, found
that we had to alter the process? Do we have to start anew?”
This time it was Bob, who answered with a smile: “No, not at all. You just make the alterations in
the Metasonic Suite and upload the process again in the Modelmanager – nothing else.”
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“We could do this by ourselves? Well, now I’m definitely even more impressed,” John told them.
The consultants smiled at each other and one of them said: “And that’s not even all we are capable
of. We still have a lot of work to do until we are finished here.”
John asked: “Still work to do? What is missing? We now have a complete process which we could use
in our departments – if we install the program, as you said.”
The other consultant smiled: “Well, we still have some things we want to show you to enable you to
grasp all the concepts and techniques of subject-oriented business process modeling – but to start
with, I suggest we have lunch.”
“Now that’s a good idea,” Norma replied. “But today’s coffee is on me. Free coffee for the
superheroes of the computer age!”
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