Uma abordagem de monitoramento, controle e medição de processos de negócios em tempo real: o caso do CTIC/UFAM

Abstract

Numerous events and fast changes in the business environment influence the operations of the companies and lead them to manage their real-time business processes. In this scenario, the monitoring, control and measurement practice of business processes gain importance, because business processes need to be monitored in real time, controlled through the substitution of manual processes by automated processes, and finally measured so that process performance indicators aid the decision-making process. To meet these challenges, this paper proposes an approach to measure performance indicators in real time. The research methodology was developed using action research from the perspective of participant observation to improve the process of availability of services of I.T. in the Information and Communications Technology Center of the Federal University of Amazonas. The main contribution of this paper was aimed at answering essential questions in the scope of the process through the environment visual control (visual management) to produce an appropriate situational awareness, establish metrics that align metrics with the process goals for decision making, allow knowledge about the resources used in the availability process, fundamental for the definition of capacity management strategies, and finally, automation, in order to avoid process failures, besides being used as base for process monitoring. In conclusion, this research succeeded in achieving its main goal, in view of the description of the approach and the positive application in the availability process maintained by the Infrastructure Coordination of the Information and Communication Technology Center of the Federal University of Amazon.