ARIS BPM Blog

Last week we conducted the first part of ARIS Express beta test. We released the beta version to more than 700 registered beta testers. More than 60% of the registered beta testers already gave ARIS Express a test drive and reported the issues they found. To all beta testers: Thank you for your contribution!

Today, ARIS is used by many partners to enhance their offerings. Getting to a state where every major middleware vendor is using and recommending ARIS, was a long way to go. Today, I like to share with you the history behind Oracle BPA Suite, which is an OEM version of ARIS sold by Oracle. In 2004, the ARIS Implementation Platform consisted of only two parts: ARIS for mySAP and P2A (Processes2Applications) approach. The latter mainly referred to ARIS UML Designer and business process based software engineering.

Finally, ARIS UserDay ´09 has been kicked off! I am looking forward to the “BPM is coming home”-event on September 22-23 at the IDS Scheer headquarters in Saarbruecken. It´s the chance to see where ARIS comes from, meet the development and get in touch with all responsible and experts.

What is the future of BPM and ARIS? What are the major trends in the BPM market and what are the most influencing technologies? We are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV (episode 13) today.

At the 25th of June 2009 SAP kicks off SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management in the Netherlands. During this event several speakers introduced SAP BPM. Harald G. Nehring, Platform Marketing SAP NetWeaver, gave an overview of the BPM Market and Thomas Volmering, Lead Product Manager Business Process Management told about the SAP roadmap for Business Process Management. Ron Tolido, Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini presented Enterprise Architecture in relation to SAP NetWeaver BPM and SAP customer Stedin presented the results of their customer case.

What is the offering behind Industry.PerformanceREADY from IDS Scheer? Which industry solutions are already available? What is the additional benefit beside a pre-configured SAP system? We are providing you with a new episode of ARIS TV (episode 12) today. It took me a little bit longer to upload the video to Youtube ... I had some problems with the network configuration. IT happens ;-)

Markets are changing, technology is changing, and - of course - Business Process Management is changing. In the course of the past few years, employees have evolved from wageworkers to managers. Therefore, BPM today is a routine job for each employee. This, of course, has an impact on how Business Process Management is lived in organizations and how technology can support this “way of life”.

After the successful implementation of ARIS IT Inventory at multiple customers, we want to give some feedback and insight into specifics that should be considered when preparing or implementing ARIS IT Inventory.

In the past, IT integration business was easy. IT systems needed to be integrated, for example interconnecting two enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. To solve this, an interface between both systems was established and the work was done. Ok, I know this was not really easy either, but at least it is less complex compared to what we are trying to achieve today: business/IT alignment.

The automatic reaction of businesses to the current economic crisis is to seek ways of cutting costs. In many cases, however, they do so blindly and without really knowing whether such measures will deliver the desired results, i.e., allow them to survive. In my view, these organizations are going about it the wrong way: the key to survival and maximizing market potential are investment and/or developing growing business areas.

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In my previous blog post I compared the search results of Google trends for cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) and service oriented architecture (SOA). You will ask yourself why did I compare SaaS, cloud computing and SOA?

In the first part of my blog about Industry.Performance.READY, I gave you more general information about our new industry solutions “IndustryPerformanceREADY”. In the next lines, you can read how process-driven SAP implementations via Industry.PerformanceREADY work in detail. I will show you the necessary steps with an example from a company of the discrete manufacturing branch.

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.

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...