ARIS BPM Blog

Business process management (BPM) is now getting adopted by many companies. In itself, BPM provides many possibilities to improve business processes, customer orientation, aligning business and IT, and increasing the flexibility of an enterprise. Still, we at IDS Scheer already try to envision what might come next. Here, the usage of Semantic Web technologies like reasoners, ontologies, and mediators promises boosting business process management to a completely new level of possibilities. This approach is known as semantic business process management (SBPM).

At ARIS UserDay and ARIS ProcessWorld I got at the Process-driven SAP booth some questions about the role of ARIS related to SAP Netweaver BPM. In presentations on ProcessWorld and the blog of Eric Brabaender was already mentioned that ARIS can be positioned best as “Business to Model” and SAP Netweaver as “Model to execution”, so complementary products...

How to develop a BPM roadmap and how to integrate BPM with SAP's Enterprise SOA approach? What is the role of ARIS within SAP-related projects? How is ARIS related to SAP NetWeaver BPM (a.k.a. Galaxy)? Where can you read more about BPM?

Business process management is all about people. This is also true for IDS Scheer itself. Therefore, from time to time we will show here in the ARIS BPM Blog those people and their interests. Today, we start with a report about an endurance run with over 12.000 participants two weeks ago.

If you are responsible for Business Process Management in your company, what are the right services to offer? How can you identify your BPM maturity level and identify potential strategies to improve your BPM system? Professor Michael Rosemann will give you more insights into one of his BPM research fields...

Would you like to learn more how SAP is managing their BPM approach? Would you like to see an example of an excellent BPM organization? Would you like to understand how SAP is internally using ARIS Process Performance Manager to measure and control their end-to-end business processes? Today we provide you with a new episode of ARIS TV. In episode 5 I had the chance to interview Mark Scavillo, Head of Process Governance at SAP AG...

Last month I listened to a webinar hosted by the International Business Rules Forum. It was one of the few webinars before the forum starts on October 26 in Orlando. The BRF’s theme this year is "all around agility".

I am really happy to share with you the great news: IDS Scheer has joined recently The Open Group! You may wonder (if you are a bit outside Enterprise Architecture community) what this group is?

This article is a continues the previous article about business rules and vocabularies. Just as business processes and data form an important asset for any organization, they form the central asset for a rule-enabled organization, too.

I survived the evening event at Kosmos, a former movie theater which is now a great party location in the eastern part of Berlin. After just a few hours of sleep, I was sitting in the presentation held by Ian Charlesworth from Ovum Research. He offers us an analyst perspective on the merger of BI and BPM.

After the enterprise architecture overview in the previous presentation, the presentation I am currently attending focuses on IDS Scheer's approach to enterprise architecture management.

I am currently attending the presentation by Forrester. Henry Peyret presents the latest trends in enterprise architecture and some consequences.

The main focus of ARIS ProcessWorld and ARIS User Day is on sharing best practices between ARIS users by having many different presentations and discussion rounds. As there are so many ARIS users around, it is, of course, a good idea to also ask them about how they experience the usage of the different ARIS products. This is done during the conference in the ARIS Usability Lab…

If I am not live blogging from ARIS ProcessWorld, you can find me at the SOA booth in the exhibition area, where we demo our SOA product. It seems the interest in SOA is growing. Many people are passing by who have read about it and who want to see what’s behind. One common question is about a very short introduction to SOA. So let’s try that here as well…

I am writing live from the Business Process Excellence Award. Each year, the best BPM projects receive an award from IDS Scheer. The award is being presented in six categories. The first category is Enterprise BPM. This year's winner is Boehringer Ingelheim. The company created an international BPM framework and achieved an improved business process performance.