BowTieXP Standard

BowTie Viewer

The BowTie Viewer allows you to not only view BowTies, but also change the diagram in different ways to suit your needs.

Case Overview

Case overviews provide perspectives to complement the BowTie, allowing you to take the perspective of the accountable people, or see a list of controls, to name a few.

Diagram Filter

The diagram filters allow you to customise what you see and filter out information that is not relevant for you. Filtering on job title or other criteria is also possible.

Reports

A long list of reports allows you to export the information in BowTieXP to Word in any way you like.

Risk Matrices

Assess your consequences with risk matrices. Four areas (people, assets, environment, reputation) are predefined and with the ability to assess both inherent and residual risk your risk matrix was never so complete. Risk matrices are completely customizable to your company standard.

Diagram Editor

The editor allows you to edit diagram information and view individual element information.

Document Links

Add company standards, procedures, checklists, reports, or anything else to your BowTie.

Management System Integration

An essential part of any management system is a record of activities. BowTieXP allows you to map those activities onto a BowTie.

BowTieXP Advanced

BowTieXP Advanced was created for the serious BowTie user. It has features that cannot be missed in the full scale implementation of the BowTie methodology in any organisation. All of the features of BowTieXP Standard are included in BowTieXP Advanced. Advanced also has extra reports, case overviews and the following features.

BowTieVista Search

Advanced search means getting advanced information. BowTieVista Search gives you contextual information and allows you to link elements right from the search window.

Excel Import

Having to enter your whole management system one activity at a time can be a time consuming effort. BowTieXP Advanced allows you to import Excel sheets and quickly populate your case file.

File Comparison

It can be a difficult task to discover differences in BowTies without the File Comparison functionality. It allows you to compare different versions of your case file to see what changes were made.

SOOB matrix

SOOB stands for Summary Of Operational Boundaries and it's purpose is to give three different overviews.

• The first tells you which operations can be performed simultaneously.

• The second tells you which operations you can perform, with a control under reduced effectiveness.

• The third provides an overview of which operations you can perform given that there are certaion operational risk factors, such as heavy wind or rain.

These three views can be combined or isolated, and both give you an operational map of what you can and cannot do under certain conditions.

Search & Replace

Quickly changing a term in you whole case file is easy with Search & Replace functionality.

Relationship Models

The BowTie diagram is the most communicative diagram, but there are other types of Relationship Models that you can draw, to highlight information from a different perspective. A Top Events with all the accountable parties attached to it, or all Activities, for instance. Linking operations with hazards for a more global picture and many more.

BowTieXP Navigator

BowTieXP Navigator is a viewer that allows you to view the information in a BowTie case file, run reports and consume the information in all available ways, without being able to change the case file. Ideal to ensure the integrity of your BowTies. To be able to incorporate the feedback that Navigator users might have, there is the possibility to add actions to the BowTie.

Add-ons

The BowTieXP Add-ons are designed to broaden the scope of what you can do with BowTies. The Add-ons are for users that want to  use their BowTies to aggregate incidents, collaborate with multiple people, develop quantification models and more. They can be individually activated in the software.

SharePoint Enterprise Add-on

Managing your BowTies when you are working with multiple people can be a difficult task. Fortunately there are solutions for this. Microsoft SharePoint is one such solution. The SharePoint Enterprise Add-on integrates with Microsoft SharePoint to allow you to manage BowTies online and collaborate more easily while still ensuring that your BowTies are consistent.

Sharepoint Explorer

The Sharepoint Explorer allows you to check out, check in, determine version numbers, get previous versions and compare versions. Create workflows and ensure BowTie file integrity.

API

Developers who like to create custom solutions can program against our API.

Web-viewer

A great looking web-viewer that you can install on your SharePoint server allows you to quickly access your BowTies in a browser. Information can  be shared effectively with this web-viewer, while retaining total control.

BowTieXL

For those customers that want the possibility to create quantitative and semi-quantitative analyses, built on the BowTie model, Governors has developed BowTieXL.

Spreadsheets

The spreadsheets display BowTies in a spreadsheet format. It allows you to create your own quantitative models.

User Data

User data allows you to add your own variables to the BowTie. These can be used to do calculations or to store extra information in you case file.

BlackBowTie

There are several ways to use the BowTie method for Incident Analysis. The most common one (Black BowTie) is currently supported by BowTieXP.

Tripod Incident Analysis

Black BowTie theory is based on the Tripod theory. Using the Tripod Causation Path you can not only define how a barrier failed but also why it failed.

Incident Trend Reports

There are several ways to aggregate the information over multiple incidents. Categorisation of Latent Failures in Basic Risk Factors, but also frequency trend reports.