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Skip this part if you already know about Process Intelligence For those of you who don’t know about process intelligence, here is a short introduction to the...

Today I want to share some thoughts with you about data modeling in ARIS, because this topic is frequently discussed here in the community and also is subject of many internal discussions.

Find your topics of interest in the ARIS UserDay 09 agenda – now online!

In my last article I gave you an overview about the features of Oracle BPA Suite (OBPA) if you consider it as a single modeling tool. Now I want to explain how the ARIS products and OBPA are playing together at customer side. Positioning and field aspects

Today is a big day for us, because we just released a new and important feature here in ARIS Community. As of today, you can upload and share your BPM models with everyone. Just create a model in ARIS Express, save the file, and upload it to ARIS Community. To have a running example, see the model on the left. The model shows the structure of the German government as of today. There is also a link added to each person to get further information. For example, select Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and press F7 key.

Implementing an SOA often proves difficult in practice and, ultimately, it’s not possible to deliver on all the promises associated with the subject. Failing to close the gap between operational and IT departments is one of the most common problems encountered, with the service-oriented application landscape not being fully aligned with the organization’s business processes.

In little more than three years, Twitter, the free, real-time, short-messaging service (up to 140 characters, so called tweets), has become one of the dominant communication tools in an increasingly Internet-dependent world. Like other social networking tools, it has quickly monopolised a specific form of interaction, in this case micro-blogging.

With 92 percent, a clear majority of the respondents of the survey believes that EA should be determined by the vision, strategy and objectives of the company. Yet, only 40 percent of them actually included objectives and policies in their EA program. The alignment of business and IT is seen as the most important argument for organizations to start using EA. At the same time, connecting IT architecture and business elements, and arriving at important decisions about structure and layout on that basis, is found to be one of the biggest problems confronting businesses.

Developing a solution to get from ARIS models to execution took some years and last week I presented some episodes from this time. As an example, I looked specifically at the development of Oracle BPA Suite, which includes an OEM version of different ARIS Platform products. Today, I want to give you some details about Oracle BPA Suite.

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 ;-)