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With ARIS 9, you gain powerful tools to browse, analyze and evaluate all relevant information in ARIS to increase the value of your BPA, EA and GRC initiatives. You can:

  • Access data in the ARIS repository easily to conduct comprehensive analytics using a three-step approach: Query – Template – Result
  • Define queries with the help of a graphical query builder and define how the data will be visualized—for example, in Microsoft®Excel® spreadsheets, Microsoft®Word documents or ARIS MashZone dashboards
  • Browse the database in real-time regardless of ARIS model definitions
  • Design, save and update customized viewpoints based on browsing results

Ad Hoc Analysis

Visualize complicated interrelationships in a database with just a view mouse clicks either automatically or step by step. The interrelationships are represented graphically as an analysis path.

With the analysis you can for example, answer the following questions:

  • Which functions do my employees carry out?
  • Which position in the company is not occupied?
  • Which employees use which application systems?

Depending on your question enter the name of a database group, model or object or a type as a starting point. This allows you to define the analysis as easily as defining a route in your route planner. If you run the analysis automatically, you can insert any steps you want the analysis to run through. Several targets are also possible.

You can however, also define the analysis path step by step. The possible successors of an item are displayed in thematic groups.

The interrelationships are displayed graphically as analysis paths on the tab of the analysis. Analyses can also be combined by subdividing several analysis paths.

All analysis items and connections from the method filter you logged on with are considered. The symbols are not displayed here as ARIS symbols. This happens in the analysis output.

To facilitate working with complex analysis paths you can filter the displayed content in different ways.

When the analysis fits your requirements you can output the entire analysis or parts of it as a table or graphic and add graphic objects or text. All ARIS symbols are displayed in the output with the symbol defined in the method filter. The various outputs are automatically saved with the analysis.

Ad hoc analysis

Queries

You can create stakeholder oriented analysis use cases to show interrelationships between database items as graphics and in a spreadsheet with the help of queries. Queries are defined based on graphics. For the use of complex calculations a spreadsheet output template can be defined based on the query definition.

Once a template is created and saved, queries can be started for every database of an ARIS Design Server context-sensitively on groups, models and objects.

Query results can be exported to Microsoft®Excel®spreadsheets. You can also define a dashboard link to feed Mash Zone with data from the repository directly without Excel® based reporting.

If you have any questions regarding those new analysis capabilities, please comment.

Stay tuned for the upcoming posts about the new functionalities in ARIS 9! The next one will be about the new UI and pictogram symbols.

by Etienne Venter
Posted on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 21:36

Nice article, thanks for sharing.

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by Erik Iglesias Abella
Posted on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 10:31

Waw! Maybe finally ARIS is improving something K.O. that we requested more than 10 years! :o)

Is please somewhere some more detailed material about this functionality? I can not see the full functionality and the pictures are not detailed enough and it was for me always critical in ARIS... (there is still a long way to walk about ARIS output functionalities, but ... at least ... :o)

Thank you.

Erik.

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by Nina Uhl
Posted on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 12:17

In reply to by dezden

Hi Erik,

If you have detailed questions, please let us know. There is no detailed book or similar yet. In case, you want to see something live, I recommend to visit one of our events nearby. I am sure the Czech colleagues have something prepared for you.

Another idea is to come to our Internation User Group Conference: http://www.softwareag.com/corporate/community/usergroup/annual_conference/default.asp

Best regards

Nina

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by Fernando Trapnell
Posted on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 13:51

Hi Philipp and Nina, 

Nice article... 

I would like to know about the ARIS BI Modeler, can you tell me if it is compatible with SAP BW 7.3? and more important, Is this functionallity present in ARIS version 9??



Best regards..

 

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by Alexander Bielowski
Posted on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 10:09

Starting with ARIS 9, the BI Modeler supports BW 7.3

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by Namrata Mishra
Posted on Fri, 01/10/2014 - 06:38

Can u please tell from where can i get some more information regarding the "QUERY" feature as in how can we create a query for our database.

Regards,

Namrata

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by Nina Uhl
Posted on Fri, 01/10/2014 - 13:55

Dear Namrata,

Please use the "Help" in ARIS to find out more about this new feature and how to use it.

Regards

Nina

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by Cenker Civelek
Posted on Mon, 06/16/2014 - 16:52

Hello;

Can you please give more details abut the main difference between Query and Ad-hoc analysis?

 

Thanks in advance.

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by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Tue, 06/17/2014 - 09:34

Hello,

The main difference is this:

A query is something you develop and store for later reuse or even publish for use by everyone. Thus you can re-perform the same query strategy many times on different starting objects. This way you can prepare certain evaluations across your meta-model, which you are frequently interested in.

With an ad-hoc analysis you have prepared nothing, but you start from some object or model and drill your way through the models along the relationships. You can get immediate results even without much knowledge of the meta-model.

Regards, M. Zschuckelt

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by Veselin Stoyanov
Posted on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 10:15

Hello Community,

Is there a logical explanation for getting the following error message when trying to run a query or ad hoc analysis:

Unable to find items!

I am logged in with Entire method and the Queries do work on other ARIS databases. On few of them, however, the query is not able to find any objects when searching in the "Start" query field.

I hope there is a logical explanation that I am not seeing right now.

Thank you in advance.

Veselin

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