ARIS BPM Blog

For those of you not directly involved with OMG, it might be interesting to know that since some days a first public submission for BPMN 2 is available on OMG's homepage. This is of course not yet the final specification, but at least the overall picture gets clearer now. You will notice many open issues while browsing the document.

What processes have to change when the oil price increases by 20%? How do we react to an upcoming hurricane in Louisiana? What impact does the strike of one of our main suppliers have on our process landscape? While process modelling is increasingly popular, most organisations design their business processes in complete isolation of such changes in their environment.

From September through December 2008, the Process Intelligence Roadshow will be on world tour with exciting customer presentations and live product demonstrations, plus a few surprising digressions from the main topic. The focus of all presentations is on combining Business Process Management and Business Intelligence to create Process Intelligence.

Would you like to get the big picture on how ARIS and SAP can be combined for an optimized BPM approach? This episode will provide you with an excellent overview of the tool architecture and use within an SAP and ARIS-based BPM environment presented by a subject-matter expert from SAP, Thomas Volmering...

The second day of the business process management conference in Milan was started by the keynote talk of Prof. Rosemann from Queensland University. Prof.

Today, the international business process management conference in Milan, Italy started. It is one of the most important events in the world focusing on new scientific work in this area.

The blog posts form my colleague Sebastian ( and here) and the comments to it suggest that this is an interesting topic. There are many right answers to the same question.

In my previous post I provided an overview of business to IT transformations. I pointed out that most tools actually do not provide a transformation, but instead push technical details to the business level and misuse a business process modelling language like BPMN as a visual representation for BPEL.

There are many products available on the market promising to automatically transform business process models (like BPMN or EPC) into executable ones (like BPEL or XPDL). Such transformations should help to bridge the gap between business and IT. But are those transformations really helping? Let’s have a closer look!

I stumbled on this post on the SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) life blog about implementing controls and Segregation of Duty (SoD). Although the post is quite old (19.05.2007), I felt it contained important points that I wanted to report on. First of all the post gives another argumentation for the need for controls (for me, the need for policies can be justified in a similar way). The authors reports on experience with controls and SoD.

I am attending ARIS ProcessDay in Singapore. Right now Evelyn Stier is talking about Business Process Management Governance at Siemens. A big organization such as Siemens has to be flexible, but at the same time needs to ensure that governance processes are implemented. In 2001, Siemens started a process standardization program. One central framework was created to describe the processes in the company.

I am at the first ARIS ProcessDay in India. Right now, Bryan Frew is talking about the BPM initiative at Commonwealth Bank Australia. The bank is the oldest and biggest bank in Australia. They got ARIS in 2003 for a compliance initiative.

The basis of IT landscape planning and IT architecture management is a well documented IT system landscape. At the end of the day, the quality and completeness of system descriptions determine how soundly and effectively the IT planning processes can be executed. My experience shows that collecting all system descriptions is a difficult task that we face time and again when it comes to developing the IT strategy for the following year.

I am at the Gartner SOA Summit in Tokyo in the Session held by Mr. Phifer from Gartner. He is talking about the application platform trends of the next years. Here is his message in a few sentences: Good times in economy are over for a while. IT budgets are being cut. Focus is on cost savings.

Many analysts and customers wonder how Microsoft’s SOA strategy will evolve in the coming months and years.