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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?!

I almost can´t believe it but today ARIS Community can welcome the 20,000th member! Since the launch in May 2009 you created 31 groups, 1673 posts, 3542 comments and discussed many BPM relevant subjects. 2000 people access the platform daily and 100 ARIS Express models have already been uploaded. Also, 15 Wallpapers were published, iPods were raffled and BPM addicts all over the world are networking busily. We also had one proposal of marriage. ;-)

In 2009 more than 3,600 people have registered for the IDS Scheer Webcasts. I would like to thank all participants and of course all speakers and colleagues who contributed to the success of our Webcasts.

Social Media means: user-generated content, wisdom of crowds, a high level of interconnectedness, real-time communication, viral effects…. A few well-known...

It is Christmas time! Back then, when I was a child, my parents asked me for my Christmas wish. One of the bad things about growing up is that nobody is asking you for your wish anymore and you have to find an excuse on your own to buy this fancy new geek device...

Some weeks ago, my fellow colleague Roland ( @rolandwoldt) pointed me to the book “Getting Real” written by the well-known web design company 37signals. The book talks about their approach to manage web development projects. In that context, getting real means:

My research colleagues and I have launched a new website where people can test their comprehension of BPMN models at http://www.bpmn-selftest.org/. The website is part of a research project of HU Berlin and TU Eindhoven.