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The functional view Currently within many organizations, many process maps are created based on the hierarchical functional view of the business areas like Sales, Procurement and Finance. These process map can be used for the synchronization towards SAP Solution Manager (SSM) to create a functional decomposition within the SSM blueprint structure. This works fine if you have only have one scenario (like standard order) but gets difficult if you want to include other scenarios (like third party order, consignment order).

Dear members, We are currently about to embed a completely new feature in our rich client products, which is intended to boost collaboration capabilities between BPM stakeholders significantly. It’s a type of session sharing where you can invite your colleagues ad hoc in a well-directed way. This can be useful in many situations where you need instant feedback, e.g.: a sign-off of a model aligning a process or organizational change walk-through of some models with affected process workers-

***VNSG-theme day 'Real World BPM'*** On the VNSG (Dutch SAP user Group) Theme day ‘ Real World BPM’ in the Netherlands, top speakers will present their vision and experiences with BPM in a SAP environment. The day will be started by Frank Luyckx who will introduce the different BPM presentations using the SAP BPM framework of the VNSG BPM user group.

Day 1 - Opening session Nearly every seat of the biggest theater of the famous Palais du Festival in Cannes was taken when Gartner started the conference with the opening session. In my opinion there are a lot of things Gartner is known for, but the most impressive one is how they actually organize events. Very professional, very structured and perfect in presentations. Especially the opening session reminds me of concerts where an impressive intro runs before finally the band appears.

SOX is in a way the mother of all internal control regulations. Although not the first internal control regulation by a long way, it is the one that has had the greatest impact in terms of its magnitude and its (global) area of application. Enacted in 2002 by the US Congress, it eventually led to the coining of the term Governance, Risk & Compliance, or GRC.

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Hello Community, I´m happy to see how diligent some of our members are but there´s still room for more! Remember the prizes (a Nintendo Wii and BOSE headphones) and invite your colleagues, friends and family to participate in our successful and exciting BPM online community. Share our content and spread the "We love BPM" spirit. Rules can be found here.

For German speaking IT industry insiders this is going to be a must read – otherwise you will not know what people are talking about these days when queuing during coffee brakes or choosing their party small talk topics.

One week ago we started our "Recruit a member" campaign where existing community members recruit colleagues, friends and whoever else loves BPM and have the chance to win a Nintendo Wii Sports, and the new members have the chance on the brandnew headphones from BOSE; read the rules here!

ARIS Community is growing and growing, every day. We are very happy about our almost 60,000 members, their posts, comments, networking and use of ARIS Express. But there's still room for more!

The introduction of a new software process in an organization is a difficult and often risky proposition. This is especially true when adopting agile processes like Scrum that usually imply radical departures from traditional team structures, cooperation styles and relationships. Unfortunately, descriptions of software processes (like this BPM-based view of SCRUM) focus on the sequence of process activities and on the artefacts generated in each activity but they mostly ignore the social aspects of the process, such as:

From time to time we receive emails from companies asking if they are (really) allowed to use ARIS Express for commercial projects. It seems they are surprised to receive such comprehensive software free of charge. Let’s take a closer look at the answer to this question.

Dear Community Members, as promised at the just finished webcast "Reduce Costs by Application Portfolio Management with ARIS" please find at this post the files you need to repeat the demo yourself. The demo uses the following components of ARIS Platform:

By combining ARIS for business modeling with webMethods for BPM execution, it is finally possible to transform organizations in even more strategic ways, while closely aligning business and IT departments around common, achievable business goals: • Establish efficient processes that align business and IT around organizational goals • Define role-based workflows that address who should do what and when