Several root-cause analysis techniques such as Pareto diagramming and Fishbone analysis are employed to assess the pathologies within a process and determine which areas need to be improved. Simulation modules are being integrated with process capture tools and sold as a complete BPR tool sets. However, many of these tools require special design skills and operations management background. These techniques can be supported by tools range from the I-CASE that have data flow diagramming capabilities to IDEF tools that use the IDEF1X data modeling technique. CASE based information engineering tools allow the system analyst to model the data requirements of the redesigned process.
Available tools facilitate reverse engineering of legacy code to new system design specifications.
While this area has received less interest by vendors, some tools to assist in these activities are beginning to emerge. Survey results indicate that the ABC technique is incorporated into many of the integrated BPR tools. For mechanistic and structured processes, tools for monitoring process performance through statistical process control are available.