ARIS BPM Blog

Thanks to everyone for having participated in our ecard competition - we were so happy to receive 19 ideas!!! The voting for the best ecard has ended and we are finally announcing the three winners: Home of the models from Kiril Popov with 26 % of the votes

The ER diagram has been introduced by P. Chen in 1976 [Chen76] and has been widely used for conceptual data modeling ever since.Today, there are many variants of the ER diagram, four of them are available in ARIS (see Figure 1).

Why conceptual data modeling? Data modeling has a long tradition and is still very important today. Data modeling has become popular at the beginning of the 1970´s when databases entered the software market, and data were no longer designed according to an application´s needs and stored in separate files.

Recently, I announced that we’d like to release a new version of ARIS Express. Main point was just to increase the stability and the starting procedure, which has caused some trouble recently. So, what’s new?

We set another record! So let us all celebrate another special moment in the history of ARIS Community and welcome member #200,000! 3.5 years after having launched ARIS Community we have reached the amazing number of 200,000 users. This proves that we did the right thing and that you all agree with us: BPM rocks!

MWD advisors have recently published a report on Software AG´s business process modeling tool, and I would like to share it with you today.

Are you working with processes in an SAP environment? Dealing with SAP Solution Manager blueprints? Want to learn more on ARIS and SAP? Don't miss the unique opportunity and learn how your SAP processe can do more. On November,7th (Time: 11:00 AM EST / 5:00PM CET) Marc Vietor will give an overview over the new functionalities in the upcoming ARIS 9 release and show how it will even better support best-in-class SAP solutions. Register here:

ProcessWorld is your only opportunity to see it first: get the big news on big product releases ... Last chance to register for ProcessWorld 2012! ProcessWorld 2012 is the only event that’s fully focused on what’s new with ARIS, but also webMethods, Adabas and Natural. So don’t miss out: See new products, new features! You’ll also:

Analysts have recognized ARIS for decades as a market leader. Our upcoming release, ARIS 9, builds on this experience—and adds improved usability, social collaboration, smart analysis and integrated governance. Discover how ARIS 9 release will:

What does it take to become a truly process-driven organization? Software AG experts know - and they've shared their insights in the new book, " Intelligent Guide to Enterprise BPM". Now you can get the highlights of the book in just 60 minutes. By attending this webinar, you'll learn how to:

If you were visiting ARIS Community in the past hours, you may have seen a message "Access denied" if you saw something at all. ARIS Community crashed completely. Good news: This wasn't a hacker attack! There were just too many visitors accessing the page at the same time.

Prologue If there were several dozens of activities within an enterprise, life would be simple, albeit not necessarily profitable for process professionals. However, since there are thousands of them, hierarchies of activities and/or processes should be used to comprehend such a crowd. ARIS Process Hierarchies

Today, I am very proud to announce that the Intelligent Guide to Enterprise BPM has been published! Get it now free of charge at: www.intelligentguidebooks.com

I have been wondering, when analyzing your processes and identifying potential improvements, how do you do it? Maybe some of you are using ARIS Business Simulator or ARIS Easy Simulator to find bottlenecks and take decisions based on qualitative Business Process Analysis. But how do you make sure that your KPIs and overall objectives will actually be met with a change of that process? I am interested in learning more from you and your experience - all this in order to make ARIS' simulation and analysis capabilities even better than before.

Day three of Sapphire Now in Orlando, fourth keynote today featuring Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board and Vishal Sikka, SAP Executive Board Member, Leading Technology and Innovation! TIme and speed ARE the top topics today in really every sense!