OpenText ProVision for Enterprise Architecture
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U.S. Air Force Customer Success Story
The United States Air Force selected OpenText ProVision to help them to understand their organization in order to enhance its effectiveness and agility in support of mission-critical operations.
Challenge
Over the last several years, the Air Force has been undergoing a transformation so that it can run more like a business—to become a leaner, more effective, and more agile organization. To do this, Air Force leaders implemented a campaign to change business practices to accelerate the implementation of technologies needed to meet pressing requirements.
The Common Integration Environment (CIE) was targeted for improvement because over the last several years its workload substantially increased. While there have been many attempts to document and enhance the CIE business process, most of these efforts focused on the customers’ perspective. Lacking in-depth CIE team input, the end result had always been an incomplete view of the CIE business process.
Solution
OpenText ProVision for Enterprise Architecture
Value
With Lean Six Sigma, the Air Force’s CIE is attaining higher levels of process excellence and rapidly achieving its quality objectives. OpenText ProVision and OpenText MBPM are integral to this effort. The cost of the CIE Business Process Re-engineering Transition Plan was approximately $90,000. With an average time savings of 30 percent due to the implemented improvements, it is estimated that the re-engineering plan will save $750,000 a year in staff time. That translates to an annual ROI of more than 700% and is equivalent to adding approximately three staff positions.
About the Organization
Throughout its history, the United States Air Force has remained the world’s premier air and space power because of its professional airmen, its investment in war fighting technology, and its ability to integrate people and systems together to produce decisive effects. To achieve its mission, the Air Force has a vision of Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power. The vision revolves around three core competencies: Developing Airmen, Technology-to- Warfighting, and Integrating Operations.
