ARIS BPM Blog

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.