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IDS Scheer is currently working on an all new procduct: ARIS MashZone. It enables departmental users to create MashApps (composite applications) for evaluating a range of data. Employees gain better insights and have more freedom when it comes to preparing/presenting key performance indicators relevant to the decision-making process.

How to use ARIS and Oracle software solutions to implement BPM solutions and execute business processes? How can ARIS be combined with Oracle technologies to implement a SOA approach? What are the benefits of the new ARIS Innovations for Oracle users? We are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV (episode 15) today. During ProcessWorld in Prague I had an interview Ashish Mohindroo, Senior Director Product Marketing at Oracle, regarding ARIS and the integration with Oracle.

Finally you finished a long and resource consuming BPM project successfully. New processes, new roles and rules were defined. Everything is specified – the processes are defined as they should be performed in the future. But how to avoid, that your process are putted beside in a closet and never watched again?

How to use ARIS for large customer scenarios? Which industry reference models are offered by Accenture and how can you benefit from the reference models to boost your projects? We are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV (episode 14) today.During ProcessWorld in Prague I had the chance to interview James Adamczyk from Accenture regarding the use of ARIS for their High Performance Business Models and at Accenture's customer projects.

A critical success factor is commonly defined as a factor that ‘has to go right’ to ensure success in achieving a certain goal. Initially defined by Ronald Daniel from McKinsey in the early 60s and later famously refined by Jack Rockart from the Sloan School of Management in the late 80s, critical success factors studies have become a popular item of investigation not only for Information Systems researchers, but also for analysts, vendors and users.

In other articles (e.g. “Data modeling in ARIS”) I spoke about the different abstraction layers that we use in IDS SOA methodology. Again the picture with a...

On September 22 there was such a pleasant sunny day at the ARIS User Day hosted by IDS Scheer in Saarbruecken that it was easy to motivate the audience for the afternoon presentation of Rob Davis entitled "

6.000 members in ARIS community! Get ARIS Community ringtone & screensaver! Dear community members: is there anybody in this BPM community who believed that we would achieve 6.000 users that fast? Within less than 2 weeks we doubled this magic KPI. All of my plans and goals we agreed upon at the beginning of this endeavor in May, now look rather ridiculous. But better this way ... Seems that we met a strong demand. Thank you all for contributing!

Yesterday evening Karl Wagner and Michael Poppitz presented ARIS Rocket Search.

ARIS User Day 2009: The presentation proceeding today's Hand-On Session on our ARIS Solution for GRC started with a humorous analogy. It was claimed that the appliance of a SEP-field is common practice in the GRC community.

The first day of ARIS UserDay 09 draws to a close and before attending the evening event themed “Firework of Innovations” I want to give you a short overview of some SAP-related issues, that I saw today. “Experience ARIS as the central pillar of your Process-Driven SAP projects” was the title of an interesting session presente

In the morning, I didn't noticed that we also booked some billboards around our office to guide people coming by car. I think that is pretty cool, isn't it? ;-)

Can't remember how many phone calls and emails it took me to get my new DSL Internet connection finally working. I don't want to blame them here, since everything is working now fine. But just a few minutes ago I learnt that in Switzerland my DSL order could have been handled so much smoother. If I only knew that earlier...

Maybe the most exciting presentation this morning was about ARIS MashZone. It was given by Dr. Helge Hess. Helge started by outlining some trends we noticed in the past years and which finally led to ARIS MashZone:

The keynote of Dr. Jost was directly followed by a presentation of ARIS Express given by Karl Wagner. Karl only had a few slides and instead used most his presentation time to do a live demo of ARIS Express. I have been at the demo booth of ARIS Express in the morning and there are some repeating questions, which were also addressed by Karl.