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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This week I was at SAPPHIRE Europe in Berlin and again I have to admit that this is a very impressing event with its about 9000 people being a part of this European SAP community. This years' theme of SAPPHIRE was "Business Beyond Boundaries" and Henning Kagermann started his Keynote with a very nice video intro with soccer artists that show a joint and artistic soccer play at a lot of different...
My previous post about the future of BPMN created quite some noise in the community. It seems there are many people out there having some great ideas how to move forward BPMN. One clear issue to be tackled in BPMN 2.0 is the missing exchange format. Some readers suggest using XPDL for this purpose. Let's take a look at it and see if this is a good idea.
Today: Knowing HOW is half the story! Many factors like laws & regulations, changed customer requirements, information technology trends, market changes can slow down companies, or even risk their economic success. Improving Business Process enables them to stay ahead. However, since the world is still turning around, it´s not a one-time improvement project, but a continuous approach: “BPM as a...
In order to provide today’s operationally savvy executive with the command-and-control cockpit that is needed to run an effective organization, I propose that we must first consider the three basic components that are the foundation of any organization: people, processes and technology.
