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Our dear ARIS Community got a bit old and is in need for a facelift. As you are the primary users of ARIS Community, we are very much interested in your ideas and suggestions. For example, what are your answers to the following questions:

It’s spring, so take the chance and send love from here: http://www.ariscommunity.com/bpm-postcard/aris-sap-love Write, send & enjoy! Josèphe

Prologue As stated in the first installment of my Fire and Ice cycle, its ultimate objective is to facilitate preparation of EPCs for BPMN-based automation. However, I strongly believe a different architectural approach to process modeling is needed, too. Here is why. Process Classification Framework

We are proud to announce the new MashZone Viewer for iPad! You can use this great new viewer to access your dashboards created with ARIS MashZone also on-the-go. Visit the App Store to download the free MashZone Viewer now This new tool allows you to get exactly the data you need – whether for critical business decisions, spontaneous presentations, or mobile analysis - even when you are on the move. You have complete control over your corporate performance indicators.

“We take great pride in being recognized as a Leader,” said Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board, Software AG. “Once again we have proven that ARIS is the established standard for Business Process Analysis. With the combination of ARIS for business modeling and webMethods for BPM execution, Software AG closely aligns business and IT departments around a shared vision for process improvement.”

Happy new year to all of you! I hope you are starting well into 2012! For a good start into the new year we have a new e-card for you... Probably you have a friend, colleague or someone else to whom you can address this birthday card! You can check our new ecard here, and - by the way - we have one for every occasion!

I used to be in a band in New York City. Tried to land a record deal… didn't get it. Tried to get some of our songs in movies and television… actually had some success. Somehow I found my way to the intersection of Business and Software. So what do rock music and operational excellence have in common? Read on!

The popular family of 2minutes videos has another member: Process Transformation. Invest 2 minutes of your time and get an idea what Software AG´s Process Transformation is all about. Got more time?

Prologue. It took a while, but we finally reached a detailed level, where most of the BPMN treatments begin. In the previous installments, modeling of interactions between participants (Conversation) and pools (Collaboration) was taken care of. Now, modeling of the process itself is the subject of a quick overview. Its elements will be discussed using a part of a full process model, to be revealed later. The basic process elements are presented on the picture below.

This post is being written live from the ProcessForum in Moscow where I just spoke about Enterprise BPM and its impact on the organizational ability to change. Talking about change, last time I was in Moscow was in 1985 and it is unbelievable how the city progressed since then… It is also great to see that here are about 400 professionals from all over Russia to exchange and to learn about new BPM trends.

A new ARIS Platform release is now available. ARIS Platform is now cloud ready. We have certified our platform to run on Amazon Web Services and VMWare. In addition, there are several new features, for example:

German version below... I am very happy to announce that it was proven once again that ARIS is the number one BPM tool.

Nina: Please introduce yourself. My name is Alex Osterwalder from Switzerland and I work on business models and “Business Model Innovation”.

Collaboration Prologue. In the previous installment of my blog, the conversation diagram for ACME was introduced. Such a diagram provides the highest level view...