ARIS BPM Blog

“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...

Prologue The previous installment, devoted to BPMN 2.0 positioning and status, was a mere warm-up i. Now comes some hard stuff, that is, how one can really use BPMN 2.0 - herein referred to simply as BPMN - for business-oriented modeling in practice.

Question 1 So with this type of model structure -- all steps in one EPC -- how do you reuse parts, globalize, etc? Whether this is an IT type model or a business process model reuse and globalization need to be considered. Let's say that our Brazil region for whatever government regulation needs to add three steps. How do you represent this? Also, say we operate in 20 countries and all 20 have their own couple of steps that "have to be" included. How is this handled? Question 2

What we often hear: Software AG´s product portfolio, solutions, services etc. are complicated and hard to understand! But: Spend just a few minutes and watch our 2minute videos and understand more about what we are offering and how we can solve your company´s problems. In this post, we present the ones for Enterprise BPM, Complex Event Processing and Process Intelligence. Just 6 minutes and you have understood three of our major topics – that´s almost not enough time to enjoy some popcorn!

Next time we talk about processes. But to prepare you a little - here are the 4 stages of the processes for ACC (ARIS Competency center). Core Team Development Content Development Operational Readiness Deployment I have attached an extremely detailed process EPC which I actually use for ACC development. So this is not teaser of anything - this is the real Dune from Frank Herbert. (this is the spice - you be the worm)

There was some requests for creating an index so that the readers understand what are all the steps of a ARIS Competency Center Development - how many articles will I publish? (depends on how long I get paid - oh lord - here he goes again) This set of solution should be pretty scalable and actually can be used for many tools like solution manager etc.