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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!

Last week, I was at the International User Group meeting in Berlin. It was great to meet so many (ARIS) users, and many of them are also member of ARIS Community of course! If you missed the event, make sure to take a look at Sebastian's coverage of the ARIS User Group meeting.

In the afternoon, several customer presentations take place to foster knowledge exchange between the participants. As I have to leave early, I will only cover this presentation by Bjørn Storø of Statoil from Norway. Statoil is a company of 20,000 employees in 34 countries working in the oil and gas production. They operate 80% of all oil and gas production in Norway with many off-shore facilities. Their main business drivers are

Now comes one of my favorite topics: our online communities. Gerd Schneider presents the various channels we offer so that you can directly interact with our experts. Get a first overview by visiting the Social Media Center. Gerd first provides a short overview of ARIS Community. Many people in the room already know it :-) Afterwards, he shows the other communities for Adabas, Natural, webMethods, and CentraSite.

Dr. Dominik Vanderhaeghen now presents how unified process intelligence can help us to run our business not on Trial & Error. Instead, we want to be able to learn from what we are doing so that we don’t repeat the same errors over again. A key ingredient provided by unified process intelligence is providing pictures of the current situation so that we understand what we are in.

Before we go to the next session, I want to share a picture of the conference location. Berlin has many nice places, but I think this part at the Spree river is especially lovely. In the back, you can see the ABION hotel, where we are located.