ARIS BPM Blog

Some time ago, Sandy Kemsley posted an interesting blog entitled "Do BPM vendors eat their own dog food?" which discussed whether BPM vendors use their own products, and if so, to what extent. This intrigued me, so I decided to find out for myself how much we folks at IDS Scheer use our own products for process intelligence purposes.

Research studies (EFQM) and survey reports (McKinsey) towards the ROI of BPM show increased revenue with 35% and reduced costs with 30% and an agile organization which is able to quickly adapt to changed market situations. But how can you determine the actual BPM benefits for a specific company and at which BPM costs?

Today, I will continue with my serial about ARIS User Groups worldwide. And I won't go far away: I will give you a picture about the German internet forum www.aris-user.de - there were also comments from other readers of our blog what's with German initiatives.

Every process manager knows that BPM is not a project but a journey that you take to create a flexible and agile organization that can renew itself like a Phoenix. This journey is dependent on the current situation of the organization (Maturity). To measure the current situation there are many maturity models available on the market like EFQM, OMG, Baldrige, COBIT, and CMMI, Hammer and Gartner. All these BPM maturity models have a lot of commonalities but they also have their own objectives.

On Thursday February 26th, Professor Scheer made an appearance on the FOX Business Network’s "C-Suite Sit-Down" segment, which is dedicated to attaining the insights of leading executives on topical issues affecting the economy...

When you are doing Business Process Management, you are usually trying to optimize business processes according to certain objectives. You might be interested in the processes and their execution being flexible, effective, efficient, compliant, simple, fast, inexpensive, and so on. There are a lot of factors influencing the quality of a process with respect to these goals and one of these is the competence of people doing the actual work.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a key enabling factor for companies. Jim Sinur from Gartner talks about the top five benefits currently delivered by BPM. I will analyse and discuss them now. A previous Gartner survey said that BPM:

I'm sure that's why IDS Scheer had the confidence and optimism to take a booth at CeBIT again this year, despite the financial crisis. After all, it's the world's biggest IT trade show.

Now that I have addressed the context and concept of Process Intelligence, as well as its benefits and application areas in the banking industry, I will finally look into three cases to il

After having explored how Process Intelligence complements conventional business intelligence and reveals process behavior, I will now look into its benefits and application areas.

Last week I gave you an impression how BPMN looks like in ARIS. In the previous post, I mostly covered standard modelling features, but this week I will take a look at the more advanced features like BPMN process simulation and syntax checking. There was also an interesting question about how ARIS is handling BPMN sub-processes, which I cover first.

If you search the Internet for ARIS and BPMN modelling, you will find a lot of misinformation stating BPMN is not a first class modelling language in ARIS. This is surprising, because the various ARIS Platform products already have BPMN support since a long time. In the following, I will give you a brief overview of the BPMN modelling capabilities of ARIS.

In my first post I have stated that Process Intelligence puts the banks back in charge. I will now elaborate on how this latest form of business intelligence works.

As confidence in the banks declines, the hunt is on for innovative tools to increase transparency and improve business performance. Process Intelligence is a new technology offering a glimmer of hope in sombre times. The benefits of Process Intelligence are twofold. It is of fundamental importance to both performance improvement and risk management, because it improves our understanding of how results are actually achieved.

A few weeks ago, I gave you some insight into the ARIS User Group in France – the French Club Utilisateurs ARIS. If you look across the Atlantic Ocean, you will find the ARIS User Group for the North American continent which was established in July 2004 and is still being led by its founding chairperson, Deb Boykin of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.