ARIS BPM Blog

I am a strong believer that software vendors should eat their own dog food. This also applies to IDS Scheer. Therefore, I already started some months ago to visualise the daily usage of ARIS Community using the now released ARIS MashZone product. Today, I want to share the experiences I gained while creating this community performance dashboard.

TO GAF, or not to gaf? Well, the community of enterprise architects says “TOGAF”. And analysts consider the latest release of TOGAF specification, version 9 positively too. So what ARIS Platform has to offer to its users?

Reuse is a key enabler for improving business efficiency. It’s a global market – we can’t afford to do things differently in every country and for every product, but at the same time we want flexibility and innovation… and we don’t want to keep paying to have new processes and IT systems developed. So we have to reuse everything we can, but in practice reuse is harder than it sounds, both conceptually and managerially. So although the concept of reuse has been around for a long time, do we understand what process reuse means?

How about an Apple iPod Touch 8GB? That it´s your chance to win an iPod! All you have to do is to help improve ARIS BPM Community. Would you like to help improve ARIS BPM Community? What are your ideas how ARIS BPM Community should look like? How are you using ARIS BPM Community? We are interested in answers to those questions so that we know how to extend ARIS BPM Community in the future. We set up an online survey to gather your ideas.

Ich möchte Ihnen eine Lösung vorstellen, die wir, d.h. unser Partner IDAP und wir von der IDS Scheer, für die mittelständische Industrie entwickelt haben. Auch ausgehend von einigen Publikationen im Internet (z. B.

I n my previous blog post I have discussed the principles of BPM maturity models and the definition of BPM maturity levels. ( see http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/frlu) A BPM maturity check can analyze your current BPM capabilities. The goal can be to benchmark with other companies within the industry segment in order to assess the quality of the BPM project portfolio and define the BPM strategy.

Would you like to help improve ARIS Express? What are your ideas how ARIS Express should look like? How are you using ARIS Express? We are interested in answers to those questions so that we know how to extend ARIS Express in the future. We set up an online survey to gather your ideas. We would be very happy if you take the time and answer the few questions. It will take not more than 5 minutes.

Yesterday, we had a special day here at ARIS product development. For a full-day workshop, all developers and development managers of our modelling products met to present the latest features. Additional units dialled in, because we also have development offices all over Europe, not just in Saarbrücken, Germany. There are some strict rules for this workshop: First, number of Powerpoint slides must be reduced to an absolute minimum. Second, only those features are allowed to be demonstrated, which are not yet shipped to any customer.

Dear community members, I just uploaded a customer benefit story of last year’s Business Process Excellence (BPE) Award for Business-Driven SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) & Enterprise Architecture Management Winner Océ Technologies B.V. They reduced their process variants by 30% in the offer-to-cash process. In this detailed presentation, Jo Bleser, VP and Program Manager, SPINE program, and Louis Anderson, corporate application architect explain how they achieved great benefits with their SPINE program and using ARIS.

Happy new year Risk Management! Unfortunately for that the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times!" comes true in 2010. We already noticed a lot less pressure on the GRC market than on other segments during 2009 what satisfyingly lead to positive results for that solution. But obviously not only compliance topics that are demanded by regulators are still seen as business critical but also the risk management approaches of the companies get more and more under scrutiny.

Dear ARIS community members, Business Process Management has attracted a significant amount of applied research that significantly influenced the direction of BPM. Examples for this influence can be found, among others, in the areas of BPM maturity models, process modelling notations (eg EPC, BPMN) and process execution. The most significant gathering of the BPM community that is dedicated to reflecting on and extending the BPM body of knowledge is the international BPM conference.

I would like to share my pleasure over the success of last week´s action with the "I love BPM" fan kits! 30 fan kits 1 post 1032 views (until today) 48 comments delivery to 17 countries Thanks to all who participated - we love BPM! ;-)

Couple of months ago I invited you to review 10 different definitions of the term “Enterprise Architecture”. While the current leader is the definition of Gartner Group (which is one of my favorites too), it still gives a pretty high-level introduction to the term. How should the created key principles and models be structured? So that they can be efficiently communicated to support better decision making on enterprise´s change?

TechCrunch is currently reporting that the social network site BeautifulPeople.com has kicked out 5.000 members, because they gained too much weight over Christmas. That got me thinking if we should also kick out ARIS Community members if we notice they make a syntactical mistake while modelling a process model?!