Predefined description elements ensures easy-to-understand process structure and takes away time consuming debates about how to document and structure process descriptions.

Integrity checks ensures consistent process descriptions.

Symbolic references between process description entities ensures no broken links.

Multiple, consistent views of the processes are generated automatically. Examples of views are: workflows, disciplines, roles and type of elements.

Pictures are integrated to process descriptions.

A complete and fully index is generated to quickly search and find process description elements.

Standard description elements guides process writers.

Trivial, but time consuming activities regarding formating and layout are minimized, more time can be spend on process content.

Focus on process structure and description instead of spending time resolving broken links and/or non-existing descriptions spread across multiple documents.

Simply use drag'n'drop functionaly when creating references.

Easily integrate and enable existing process diagrams from e.g. MS Visio.

Just change the name or description of an element and all references, trees and overview tables, tool tips, etc are consistently updated to reflect the changes.

The following output formats are generated:

• Web site deployed to web server or as files.
• Web site deployed including web server and database.
• PDF file for printing or distributing process.
• Input to Callis Performer to activate process descriptions.

Using these output format options, consistent process descriptions can be provided to employees with no access to company intranet, to external auditors or to business partners, customers or subcontractors who should follow or know your processes. Just ship the processes on a memory stick or dvd

Callis Author is knows the structure of various standards and models e.g. ISO 9001:2008 and CMMI.

When writing the process, elements in the process description can be mapped to specific requirements in the standards.

This mapping between the organizational process and various international standards provides for automatically generating compliance reports that will give external auditors a quick and consistent overview of the organizational process in relation to a specific standard.

Artifact mappings can also be maintained, and used to generate process implementation indicator templates (PIIDs).

In some cases, different processes are needed across the organization, e.g. based on project size, type, domain and technology. Callis Author handles this with the concept of packages.

Organizational standard processes can be created by assembling project specific packages and packages with common process elements to a new standard process.

Process descriptions are available in XML format and can easily be exported from Callis Author. This ensures that the effort used when documenting the processes are not lost if the company chooses another process writing tool.