Web Seminars

Sharpen your iGrafx software skills on your schedule. Review our mini-training product demos to refresh your iGrafx process mapping skills, uncover advanced mapping and modeling features, understand our simulation capabilities, and more.

If you're interested in hands-on training, check out our public training schedule in a city near you.

What's New in iGrafx 2007 - Demo
This one hour recorded event will demonstrate key new iGrafx 2007 features including:

• PDF publishing, hierarchical numbering, new global page setup, and shape-to-shape and bookmark linking capabilities
• Extended Lean Value Stream Mapping, Cause & Effect, FMEA and Prioritization Matrices
• Enterprise Modeling and Lifecycle Management capabilities

Process Mapping
In this 60 minute recorded demonstration, gain a high level understanding of creating a Process Map in iGrafx.
Topics covered include:

• Quickly and easily creating a process map with swimlanes (departments)
• Manipulating departments, shapes, connection lines, text
• Utilizing decision activities in the process
• Ease of using automatic on and off page connectors
• How data can be captured and entered within the process
• Linking, including creating hierarchy within the process map and linking to external files and web pages
• Sharing iGrafx process maps through web and presentation
• New iGrafx 2006 Features
• Recorded Questions and Answers

Advanced Modeling & Analysis with iGrafx
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In this 40 minute demonstration, we show you how to use some of the advanced iGrafx features to more accurately define your process models and enable improved process analysis.
Join us and improve your iGrafx skills. Learn how to:

• Apply external data to drive transaction generators
• Use transaction attributes to define behavior
• Set up and use monitors to capture transaction statistics at an activity
• Create and broadcast messages between parallel processes
• And MORE

Applying iGrafx to Lean
In this 26 minute webex demo, you will learn how iGrafx 2007 supports your Lean initiative by helping you document, analyze and share your processes through Value Stream Mapping, Cause and Effect diagrams for 5 why analysis, Layout diagrams to understand process flow and more.

Simulation
Join iGrafx for a product of demonstration of iGrafx Process for Six Sigma. This demonstration will walk you through features available in FlowCharter, Process and Process for Six Sigma. Watch this demo if you are interested in:

• iGrafx Process Mapping with swimlane diagrams,
• iGrafx simulation, and/or
• Six Sigma analysis using DOE and Fit Data through integration with MiniTab

Six Sigma Analysis with iGrafx Process for Six Sigma
In this 40 minute demonstration, we show you how to use iGrafx to help you down the DMAIC path. Watch this demo and see how iGrafx supports your Six Sigma success by delivering the ability to:

• Perform Six Sigma analysis with iGrafx
• Use empirical data for more accurate analysis
• Conduct multi-factor, multi-level DOE
• Integrate with statistical packages such as JMP or MiniTab
• Create other critical diagrams -Cause & Effect, Pareto, FMEA, Value Stream Maps, etc
• Export Reports and Data to Excel, JMP or MiniTab

Seminars

Lean

Lean VSM 101: Introduction to Lean and Value Stream Mapping
Join iGrafx and Gemba Research for the first of a series of educational webcasts on Lean principles and Value Stream Mapping. This introductory session is designed to help you understand basic Lean principles and why you need Value Stream Mapping to help you reach your overall Lean objectives.

Lean 201: Creating Your Value Stream Map from Paper to Computer
Join iGrafx and Gemba Research for Lean 201 - our 2nd educational webcast on Lean principles and Value Stream Mapping. This session is designed to help you understand the process to create your Value Stream Map and why it is important to have both paper and electronic versions.
Note: You must have version 9 or later of Microsoft's Windows Media Player to view

Six Sigma

Case Study: Increasing the Customer Satisfaction Rating of an IT Helpdesk
Is your helpdesk, external or internal, successfully meeting the needs of its customers? How would it hold up in a customer satisfaction survey? Join iGrafx and VR Data Systems for a case study detailing the steps it took to increase the customer satisfaction rating of a New York based large financial institution's IT Helpdesk using Six Sigma methodology.
Note: You must have version 9 or later of Microsoft's Windows Media Player to view this file.

JMP & iGrafx: Making Effective Business Process Decisions
iGrafx Process 2003 for Six Sigma -plus- JMP® statistical analysis software combines business process mapping and simulation with statistical analysis using an easy-to-understand visual framework. See how it is possible to recreate any business process, run what-if simulations, and conduct in depth statistical analysis of the results without the cost of a real world test. The result? Business process improvement options you can trust.

BPM

Automating Business Processes from Definition to Deployment
This informative session will take you through key considerations when deploying a complete BPM solution from Business Process Analysis to Process Automation and Process Control. Through the seamless integration of iGrafx Process 2003 and Plexus eFIRST process, we can demonstrate a powerful combination of tools to meet your rapidly growing demand for BPM.

Process Improvement

Measuring the Impact Your Sales and Marketing Processes Have on Your Financial Statements
Mike Webb of Sales Performance Consultants, Inc. will present the basics of a process approach to marketing and sales and illustrate how these processes can impact far more than just the top line. An iGrafx simulation case study will demonstrate how changes in the sales process translate to dramatic impact on a company's financial statements.

Reduce Costs and Improve Service Through a Process Approach to Quality
The telecommunications industry has faced incredible challenges in the past couple of years. Pressures to attract and retain customers, demands to improve employee and shareholder satisfaction, cost reduction, consolidation, changing technology and legislation, and stricter controls have all contributed to an environment of rapid change. In this interactive web-seminar you will see how one company has helped dozens of leading telecommunications service providers improve their bottom lines by focusing on and improving core business processes.

Make Your Processes Yield Higher Productivity Now
Business is increasingly complex and organizations need to react faster with fewer resources. In this web-seminar you will learn how Promax Automotive uses iGrafx and a process management approach developed by 4aBetterBusiness to reduce costs, increase productivity and increase customer satisfaction.