ARIS BPM Blog

The first entry over on the ARISalign blog was called "It's nice to have friends" and here we are now with our new friends from the ARIS Community. This is very exciting and I can not tell you how pleased I am about this. For starters I would like to make you aware of a big event that is happening next week Tuesday, March 2nd:

Whiteboards are probably one of the most effective tools to sketch your ideas or to brainstorm with your colleagues. Often, whiteboards are combined with post-it notes to visualise ideas of different people. Whiteboards and post-it notes are also used in many business process management efforts, for example to define the initial process design or to extract process knowledge from process participants. It is also a great tool to come up with improvement ideas. In sum, whiteboards and post-it notes are usually used before process modelling.

BPMN 2 is the new and heavily extended version of the popular business process modelling notation by OMG. Most major and minor vendors in the BPM space committed to support this standard, so does IDS Scheer. Some weeks ago, we updated our professional products and added BPMN 2 support. Today, we make BPMN 2 modelling available to everyone with the release of ARIS Express 2.0.

... well, I don´t know why IT Analysts from Gartner call their tool vendor evaluations “magic”. But for me, it´s clear:

Some time ago, I blogged about our new process-oriented industry solutions, based on SAP, named Industry.PerformanceREADY. Two of IDS Scheer’s Industry.PerformanceREADY industry solutions have now been certified by SAP Austria. They are now labeled " Qualified SAP Business All-in-One Partner Solution".

Ich möchte ein Projekt vorstellen, in dem es um die Harmonisierung der Kernprozesse einer Unternehmensgruppe ging. Dabei wurden insbesondere Vorgehensweisen aus der Designphase der AVE Vorgehensmethodik in einer auf das Projekt zugeschnittenen Weise umgesetzt. In geringem Umfang aus solche aus der AVE Strategiephase.

I would like to present a solution, which we, that is to say our partner IDAP and ourselves, IDS Scheer have developed for the medium-sized industry segment. Based on several publications on the internet, we wondered what we could do to provide optimised process support and an ideal one-stop product for medium-sized, metal productive and metal-working companies.

Schwer prognostizierbares bzw. sehr schnell veränderndes Kundenverhalten, wie es derzeit in der Metallindustrie beobachtbar ist, setzt eine sehr flexible Produktion voraus. Auch hat der Anspruch an die Produktqualität, kurzen Lieferzeiten und gleichbleibenden, wenn nicht gar sinkenden Abnehmerpreisen, zugenommen. Lean Management ist eine Strategie, diese Markterfordernisse zu antizipieren. Auch wenn Lean Management schon seit ca.

" Software AG + IDS Scheer - Reaching new heights in Business Process Excellence”: under this motto, IDS Scheer and Software AG are addressing their customers and prospects at this year’s CeBIT.

Die Liquidität eines Unternehmens zu verbessern erfordert, sich mit dem wahren Ursachen des „Problems“ Bestand im Unternehmen auseinanderzusetzen. Eines der größten Probleme ist dabei, überhaupt eine Übersicht über alle relevanten Bestandsdaten zu bekommen, da die Daten i.d.R. in verschiedenen Datenbänken hinterlegt sind.

Hi everyone, The ARIS Express survey is closed now and we got a great deal of responses, which will definitely have a direct influence on the further development of ARIS. SO THANKS TO ALL OF YOU TAKING PART IN THE SURVEY!

English: We are happy to announce today’s launch of the new group “Process Consulting for Metals” within ARIS Community. This group offers an international communication platform with process know-how around the metal production and metal working industry.

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?