ARIS BPM Blog

The IDS Scheer ProcessWorld has started with a Keynote speech by Professor Scheer. The keynote room of the Maritim Hotel in Berlin is completely filled by the audience. As a passionate jazz saxophonist, he starts, of course, with a short jazz play introduction with the song "Milestones".

What do business performance management and soccer have in common? In the final keynote during ARIS UserDay, Dr. Helge Hess and Jörg Klückmann showed where both topics fit together. Read on to learn how both domains benefit from real-time analytics.

Today, the amount of hybrid products is increasing. Hybrid products consist on one hand of a physical good like a wind mill and on the other hand of services around the physical good. SKF GmbH and H2O GmbH are currently presenting the results of a research effort supported by the EU Commission to create an integrated reference model for maintenance processes around industrial goods.

I am currently attending the Six Sigma roundtable during ARIS UserDay. In contrast to ordinary presentations, this is a discussion between five Six Sigma experts. They are sharing their experience of introducing Six Sigma in their organisations and the motivation for it.

Today I joined the customer experience session by Rob Davis at ARIS User Day. Rob is a well known and renowned expert in process modelling. At British Telecom (BT), he’s been working as a principal consultant for process architecture, design and modelling for many years now.During this time, he has gained lots of experience in the sage of ARIS by building up a common process management approach at BT, one of the world’s leading telecom providers.

One of the key feature of ARIS UserDay is the many hands-on sessions where users can try the latest version of the different ARIS products. Today in the morning, the hands-on for ARIS SOA Architect and ARIS Business Rules Designer took place.

Today we provide you with a new episode of ARIS TV. In episode 4 I had the chance to interview Karl Wagner, Head of ARIS Product and Solution Management and R&D. We discussed all the new and beneficial features of the new product releases with version 7.1 within ARIS Business Performance Edition. We also received the first feedback from our ARIS TV audience...

Another interview with Rob Davis in Split to learn from his experience. In this episode Rob gives a short overview on how to avoid typical pitfalls when you start a major BPM initiative using ARIS as a modelling tool. He offers some expert tips and explains how to make your BPM project more successful. He formulates several questions that everybody should ask himself when starting a project.

This episode gives a short review and impression of ARIS ProcessDay in Split in May 2008. Furthermore it contains an interview with Rob Davis (Principal Consultant for Process Architecture and Process Modelling for Brtish Telecommunication plc. (BT) in the UK) about the 7 pillars of a successful Business Process Management. Rob explains about the importance of a process architecture and the typical roles and responsibilities within a BPM organization.

I am very proud to inform you that today we launched the first episodes of ARIS TV. ARIS TV is IDS Scheer's new YouTube channel that will be completely integrated into the ARIS BPM Blog. On ARIS TV we will provide you with interesting topics regarding Business Process Management and ARIS. ARIS TV will offer interviews with BPM experts, ARIS customers and thought leaders in the area of Business Process Management.

6 days left until the ARIS UserDay in Berlin, and the tension is building! Any last-minute changes delay printing or booth set-up, the final lists need to be compiled, registration figures seem to change daily, and there are thousands of details that mustn’t be neglected. For my part, I can’t wait to be on my way to Berlin at last, getting everything ready that we’ve planned for the attendees.

In my last post I have covered the basics of EAM. We also have established that you need and EA or EAM for BPM. BPM comes in two forms: Business BPM and Technical BPM. Business BPM uses business lingo to describe business architecture – activities, processes, organizations, products and all sorts of resources etc. Technical BPM describes the execution of business processes; usually what we understand as workflow or SOA.

Business Rules Management (BRM) is a recognized approached for achieving business agility that made its way in the last 20 to 30 years and allies management disciplines and results from the research community on business rules. Now, business rules are changing the way organizations think about their business.

Based on the rumours from last years' SAPPHIRE regarding the upcoming SAP modelling tool "Galaxy" and its integration with ESR as well as the possibility of process execution I joined this year in Berlin two presentations on SAP's new announced BPM product. One presentation "Next-Generation BPM on an Open Business Process Platform" was held by Thomas Volmering, responsible head of product management for SAP BPM and Ralf Heindoerfer, Development Manager SAP NetWeaver Business Process & Event Management at SAP.