ARIS TV now available as special group at ARIS Community

Dear ARIS Community and ARIS Blog readers, After a longer time of silence we are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV ( Episode 11: CeBIT 09 Review) today.

ARIS TV now available as special group at ARIS Community

ARIS TV - Episode 11 - CeBIT Review 2009 and new ARIS Innovations

What are the new ARIS Innovations and what happened during CeBIT at the IDS Scheer booth? After a longer time of silence we are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV (episode 11) today. Okay, I have to admit: CeBIT was in March and it is really a little bit late for a direct feedback and review. But unfortunately, there was no time to produce and publish this video earlier. But of course...

ARIS TV - Episode 11 - CeBIT Review 2009 and new ARIS Innovations

Prof. Scheer again elected President of BITKOM

Today I would like to ask the ARIS Community to join me in congratulating Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer who has been elected President of BITKOM today for another period of 2 years. For those who don’t know: BITKOM is the voice of the information technology, telecommunications, and new media industry in Germany. BITKOM represents more than 1.200 companies, with 900 direct members, including...

Prof. Scheer again elected President of BITKOM

1.000 members

Today is a very exciting day, because today member 1.000 registered at the ARIS Community! We were confident that there is a public interest in a community for ARIS and BPM geeks, but we are absolutely overwhelmed by the incredible uptake so far.

1.000 members

A BPM/SOA Example To Learn From

Bridging BPM and SOA is a hot topic these days. But really good examples from organizations that have succeeded in getting business and IT efficiently aligned are still rare.

A BPM/SOA Example To Learn From

BPM people have the most important job in the crisis!?

At least this is the opinion of David Norton, Research Director for Gartner. During the “ARIS Process World On Tour” stop in Munich, I had the opportunity to join David’s presentation ”Benefits of BPM in a crisis ”. The presentation started with a review of research conducted by Gartner. According to the results, business leaders' priorities are quite clear: Cutting operating costs and increasing...

BPM people have the most important job in the crisis!?

The resurrection of SOA

At the beginning of this year Anne Thomas Manes wrote in her blog "SOA has become a bad word. It must be removed from our vocabulary".

The resurrection of SOA

Why Companies Do Need Enterprise Architecture at Downturn?

Take it or leave it, but often EA is referred as a lengthy initiative with very unclear and practically not very applicable results. Like a set of references architectures, which in practice turn to be 80% different from architectures of actually deployed solutions or a set of principles of building new data centers, which are too high-level and theoretical, so any solution built do comply with...

Why Companies Do Need Enterprise Architecture at Downturn?

Automatic Process Discovery with ARIS PPM: “It’s about behavior!”

In these economic times, most enterprises focus on their core competencies and understand that there is a close relationship between financial success, the efficiency of business operations and the satisfaction of their customers. True to the motto “What can’t be measured, can’t be optimized”, the ability to monitor and analyze organizational performance becomes more and more important. Companies...

Automatic Process Discovery with ARIS PPM: “It’s about behavior!”

ARIS within SAP projects

Many SAP project managers are struggling with the question whether they should integrate BPM within their SAP projects. For them the ROI of BPM for their project is not obvious. The Enterprise BPM framework, as introduced in my previous blogs, provides an overview of the utilization of BPM within SAP projects. The decision whether BPM should be incorporated within the SAP projects should also be...

ARIS within SAP projects

Webcasts – Interactive and directly accessible from your desk

The latest Webcast has been arranged for the second half of the year. Check it out here .

Webcasts – Interactive and directly accessible from your desk

Review BPE Award ceremony

Yesterday, IDS Scheer announced the 2009 Business Process Excellence Award Winners in the wonderful location Lenbach in Munich. The BPE Awards are presented in several categories to customers with outstanding projects, a high degree of innovation and resulting in improved business performance. It was a very nice evening with a special dinner, good drinks and live music. I met very interesting...

Review BPE Award ceremony

Keynote by Dr. Jost at ProcessWorld in Munich

Today, ARIS ProcessWorld on Tour started with the stop in Munich. The first keynote was given by IDS Scheer's CEO Peter Gerard. Afterwards, Dr. Wolfram Jost gave his keynote about ARIS innovations.

Keynote by Dr. Jost at ProcessWorld in Munich

Already heard of the ARIS Enterprise Services Integration?

It is the new functionality of ARIS for SAP to speed up your SAP projects and enable alignment of business process requirements and SOA! Read this blog from Josèphe Blondaut from IDS Scheer AG and Stephan Schluchter from SAP AG, introducing the new integration.

Already heard of the ARIS Enterprise Services Integration?