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The HTML editor is not only used in TopEase Designer. In TopEase Webexplorer, too, it will be possible to edit all text fields of an object in the future using the HTML editor – subject to the relevant authorization profile. The changes made will be saved in the TopEase model on the server.

In addition to the formatting options, the HTML editor also offers the option of creating object links to other objects in the TopEase model.

With TopEase myZone the WebExplorer offers a functionality to personalize your WebExplorer view. Depending on the portal settings defined in the TopEase XChange Administrator, every user of the TopEase WebExplorer has a personal myZone section where he can add those TopEase objects which are of particular importance to him. This can be done by means of the TopEase Designer or by selecting the “add to myZone”-icon (), which is provided with every object in the Webexplorer.
With myZone the TopEase user always has all relevant information at hand without digging in the complex structures of a comprehensive enterprise model.

Apart from modelling via object templates, the TopEase Designer will also support graphic modelling in the future.
The new graphics editor enables processes, activities and value chains (VCs) to be graphically modelled and linked to each other as shapes – comparable with modelling in Microsoft Visio or iGrafx Flowcharter. Needless to say, the TopEase Designer automatically sees to it that the corresponding TopEase objects are correctly managed both consistently and methodically. The drafting and modelling of processes and VCs will be substantially facilitated by the option of graphic modelling.

TopEase 6.2 supports BPMN.

The central administration of access rights is especially important when TopEase is used in large companies. Through the direct linking of TopEase to LDAP, authentication for TopEase users and user groups can now be managed on the central LDAP server. Changes in access rights take effect in real time, so that rights can be assigned to or withdrawn from a user at any time.
This LDAP integration also facilitates a single sign-on: when logging on to the system, the user is automatically authenticated also for the use of TopEase models and TopEase Webexplorer models.

TopEase Watchdog monitors the status of the TopEase XChange server and provides information remotely about the execution of scheduled server jobs. When TopEase Watchdog is started, a corresponding icon is displayed in the Windows system tray. As soon as server problems occur (availability, job execution, etc.) this is interactively displayed for the user. TopEase Watchdog thus makes it substantially easier for the TopEase administrator to monitor the TopEase XChange server. And server downtimes are reduced.

More and more TopEase customers maintain TopEase models in which tens or hundreds of thousands of objects are stored with multiple links. To manage this quantity of data, TopEase XBench Version 6.2 supports the use of an external, relational database as an alternative to the data repository integrated to date. This means that it is possible to maintain and handle models containing a substantial quantity of data without any restriction to system performance.

Through the use of a database, several scattered TopEase models can also be maintained on the same database. In a multinational company, for example, staff in Zurich can work on a server model in Zurich while staff in London can use a server model in London. The data for both models are saved in a central database in Frankfurt. The model data in London and Zurich are always kept up to date and consistent through the replication mechanism of the database. In a first step, Version 6.2 of TopEase XBench supports the use of Oracle databases.

Version 6.2 contains a new, extended cost management feature with which e.g. process costs, infrastructure costs, organizational costs, etc. can be easily administered. Costs are automatically aggregated and converted by means of parameterizable modelling rules. The powerful integrated Chart Library also permits a user-friendly, graphic evaluation of the relevant data.