ARIS BPM Blog

This year at CeBit, we had a lot of interesting topics to present. Clearly, the most frequented areas at our booth were the workstations where we demonstrated and explained our new Enterprise Business Process Management positioning and one of the key concepts of our new combined offering, called Model-to-Execute. This article is the first in a series that we are going to publish over the coming weeks. We’ll start off with an overview of EBPM and Model-to-Execute and subsequent articles will drill down further into different aspects.

This post is aimed at helping users and potential users of simulation make good use of the software. There is plenty of advice and guidance that can be offered, particularly to people new to simulation, clearly this post only scratches the surface. The content here is also largely independent of software, so it does not refer directly to functionality within ARIS Business Simulator. Business Value

Talking about risk management is currently impossible. Not talking about risk management as well! In a year where we have seen shortly after the financial crisis the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and in a years span the earthquake leading to tsunami leading to Fukushima - in such a year talking rationally about risk and risk management feels cynical. Not forgetting the not less important events in the middle east and northern Africa.

I come from the Semiconductor industry. Talk about a group that needs to measure nearly *everything*… Every time I talk with high tech companies, I’m amazed at their ability to come up with meaningful metrics to explain and track all parts of their business, from Moore’s Law to the trends monitored in Tashiro Charts. Which makes this corollary to Matt Green’s post on February 14 th all the more puzzling.

Some weeks ago, we asked you to vote for the best article of 2010. Check this poll to see the results of the voting. Again, we like to thank all authors for the great work they contributed. And please note, that are the best articles out of more than 2,000 articles published here on ARIS Community in 2010!

In a global ranking of top growth tech companies by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Software AG took place 7. The ranking shows the list of tech companies with biggest growth (revenue, sales, stock price, etc.) in 2010. The list includes many manufacturers of semiconductor equipment and some usual suspects like Apple and Dell.

Software AG’s ProcessForum takes this year place in Houten. Today, about 210 attendees (including 30 partners) met in Houten. After a very inspiring presentation of Ivo Totev, Chief Service Officer Software AG, ABN Amro presented their Architecture achievements of the last years. Henk Houtzager, Head of IT Strategy, Innovation & Architecture, took the audience in his journey of the integration of Fortis and ABN Amro.

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Today’s ProcessForum in Brussels, Software AG’s annual local Business Process Excellence event, had a great keynote. Software AG’s Chief Service Officer, Ivo Totev, gave a very inspiring presentation. One of his topics, is the crucial role of Processes; the Agility Layer of today’s companies. It’s the successor for the alignment between the Business Model (all about the markets, products and differentiating innovations) and IT (realizing automated business processes).

After the first successful initiative in the area of report and macro scripting in ARIS, I have started a new tutorial initiative on how to create your own reports with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor in ARIS. In the coming articles you can learn some interesting facts about how to develop scripts in ARIS with the WYSIWYG editor.

On ARIS Community, you can share your ARIS Express files by uploading it. Your model is directly embedded in your post and other people can use the interactive model viewer to view and zoom your model. They can leave comments and you can alter the model to incorporate their thoughts. You can also embed a model available on ARIS Community in your personal page like a blog or homepage. All you need is a short snippet of HTML code. To get this code, proceed as follows:

In my previous blog posts, I have discussed the principles of the Enterprise BPM Framework and the definition of BPM maturity levels. The Enterprise BPM Framework can be used to; Discover the business issues and improvements (using the BPM Maturity Model) Discover the BPM projects and tools (using the BPM Framework) Discover the BPM stakeholders (using the BPM Stakeholders Map) Discover the BPM benefits (using the BPM Value Map)

While my last article explained how to determine your process costs and times by means of ARIS scripts, I will now provide information on how to obtain an exact calculation of the process costs by using ARIS Business Optimizer. The problem that needs to be solved for every process is to find out what are the individual cost items and to determine the amount of costs for the functions and cost centers. ARIS Business Optimizer provides a rules set that you can use to this effect.

When I started to delve into the ARIS world some years ago, I was surprised that it is very common to have several ARIS databases. This came as a surprise, because I always thought the main idea of all this modelling effort is to create a unified enterprise model stored in a single repository. Still, many customers use different databases to document different domains like sales and product processes.

The SAP LEAD Training Program offers Enterprise Architects the opportunity to become a Value Architect, Process Architect or even a Lead Enterprise Architect. The SAP LEAD Program is aimed to further integrate business architecture and IT architecture into a coherent Enterprise Architecture. For details see white paper: ( http://www.sap.com/netherlands/services/education/brochures_whitepapers/pdfs/SAP_Education_LEAD-Program.pdf)