Websphere Business Modeler 6.1 Certification: Demonstrate the effects of simulation settings on simulation outputs

IBM Certification Test 992.3 - Simulation

Demonstrate the effects of simulation settings on simulation outputs
1. Simulation scenarios
2. Related links

Demonstrate the effects of simulation settings on simulation outputs

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.

Simulation settings control the behavior of your simulation runs so that your simulation snapshots and results can be useful reflections of real-world behavior.

The values of simulation settings affect the details of simulations you run which will be reflected in any dynamic analyses you run against the simulation outputs.

There are many simulation settings that affect simulation outputs. Here are a few examples:

Simulation scenarios

The WebSphere® Business Modeler simulation scenarios present illustrative examples of the use simulation in simplified real-world situations. Although the situations presented in the scenarios are simplified, they are reflective of some of the possible techniques and uses for the simulation capabilities. The scenarios are not in any way an exhaustive set of examples of product use, but you can use them to get some ideas of how WebSphere Business Modeler can be used to answer questions about your process models.

Each scenario makes use of a modified version of the ABC sample to generate its data. You can download the scenario model from the Product Library Tutorials and Samples page. The sample model contains the original process, as well processes containing the modifications described in the scenarios.

Scenario: Scaling a process past its capacity
In this scenario, simulation is used to identify and address problem areas in a process when the rate of tokens arriving for processing is increased past the current capacity.
Scenario: Generating cost data for analysis
In this scenario, simulation is used to identify the cases that contribute a high cost to the process.
Scenario: Changing resource requirements
In this scenario, simulation is used to see the effect on overall cost and resource availability when a part of a process is updated to reflect a new company procedure.

Parent topic: Simulating processes