Atego has launched Atego Process Director, a web-based environment for process definition, management and deployment. Process Director delivers a highly scalable, extensible and pragmatic range of new web-based process-oriented capabilities for operational, engineering and development process authoring, roll-out, management, governance measurement and optimization. Its thin client user interface runs on contemporary browsers and also supports mouse-free environments such as Windows Touch, iPad and the iPhone, proactively getting process deployed.
Atego Process Director is pre-loaded with a selection of industry best practice processes, roles, deliverables, techniques, tools and risks for systems engineering, software engineering and project management; organizations can also import their existing process documentation, author new processes and merge all three. This means that companies can use their own processes, as well as industry standard processes, and custom-configure any process to suit their specific needs. Processes can be authored with Process Director’s online process editor or any MetaWeblog API compliant tool, for example Microsoft Word and Microsoft Live Writer.
Process flows are created with the revolutionary Step Editor’s full drag-and-drop graphical process designer. Each Process Director project (or program) is then based on an underlying process library, which is automatically tailored to the projects individual circumstances with a question-and-answer wizard. This approach to process configuration delivers true agility, rather than a ‘one size fits all’ process. Projects can then be managed with a mix of Process Director’s task estimation and allocation, Microsoft Project Plan generation, metrics gathering and collaborative process improvement discussions. Atego Process Director and Atego Process Consumer’s Library Structure Views, Navigation Trees and Process Diagrams provide simple process visualization and understanding.
Wolfgang Patelay, Editor Print & Online 