The Arena product family: enterprise modeling solutions

Organizations throughout the world are quickly moving to adopt process modeling and simulation as an integral part of their business decision making and continuous improvement initiatives. With wider acceptance of simulation, these consumers are demanding tools that support a breadth of applications, scale to fit different needs through a project life cycle, and integrated with corporate modeling and database systems. Systems modeling fulfills these needs in the Arena product family, encompassing Arena^R Business, Standard, and Professional Editions for mapping processes and simulating discrete and continuous systems; Callm^R for call center analysis; and HiSpeedm^TM for high speed production line modeling. These products complement each other in meeting the various needs for simulation in an enterprise via a common software interface and compatible features, providing a natural growth path as simulation needs expand. The paper introduces the Arena suite of products for modeling and simulation, highlighting product architecture and technology features that are targeted toward successful deployment of simulation and Arena throughout an enterprise