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The key to effective ITSM is ensuring that there is clear accountability and roles defined to carry out the practice of Service Operation. A role is often tied...

Many people understand the need for BPM, but what do you use to convince senior managers that there are real, quantifiable, benefits from investing in implementing BPM? In this Webcast I will focus on understanding the nature of BPM and the short, medium and long term benefits of implementing it.

Everyone wants a good process. Our businesses would be more profitable if we had them. But do we know what a good process is? Would we recognized one if we saw it? And how do we ensure we can design them?

The ITIL Process Map is the starting point for all drill-down activities within the ARIS ITIL Reference Model. The Process Map structures all ITIL V3 processes and functions along the different ITIL Service Lifecycle Phases. For all processes and functions more detailed models depicting further information have been assigned.

What is ITIL?

I just returned from our weekly ARIS Express status meeting and I want to give you an update about the current progress. Not even 2 months ago, we released ARIS Express to the public, but there are already 10.000 registered copies. People from all over the world are using ARIS Express and share their models here in ARIS Community. Currently, you can also win an iPod Touch if you share your ARIS Express model with ARIS Community members.

Here at ARIS BPM Community and ARIS BPM Blog, one would expect that we all have a common understanding what ARIS stands for. However, the term “ARIS” is like a chameleon, changing its meaning constantly depending on the context it is used in. For example, we use ARIS to refer to the software provided by IDS Scheer, but we also talk about the enterprise architecture framework ARIS and the modelling language ARIS. Those different meanings are all correct, but let’s try to be more precise.

At the 14th of October the second BPM theme day for the SAP user group was organized in the Netherlands. The theme of the day was: Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer? More than 260 participants visited this BPM theme day although it was at the same day as the SAP World Tour (with 400 participants) was held. This means that BPM is getting more and more important for the SAP customers. The agenda highlighted the main topics of the day: the cooperation between ARIS and SAP and the added value of ARIS.

Tired of navigating to websites before searching them? Do you want to search the ARIS Community from your browser directly? Well Firefox users can do this using an Add-on named Add to Search Bar. Once installed there will be a new context menu item when clicking onto the ARIS Community search box.

Customer: “I want to automate my processes in a heterogeneous environment.” IDS: “No problem, but if you describe end to end processes you have to decide what...

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.