Hi,
I am looking for a tool that does business process simulation. When I view the ARIS 9 videos, I see the simulation ability and it looks promising. I did have a couple of questions though...
- Can you add in your own custom values to be collected during the simulation? For instance, I would like to add in a variable for cost of a product. Based on the simulation, I want to be able to see the product cost at the end of every run. Some paths through the flow could produce a single product, some multiple. Does it support something like this?
- Can you run simulations against BPMN 2.0 flows?
- One more side question: Does ARIS support the import and export of BPMN 2.0 models? I did some of this with Aris Express, so I just wanted to confirm.
Thanks!
Tony
Ralf Angeli on
Hi Tony, here are some answers to your questions:
ad 1) Custom values are not supported. The simulation in ARIS works with a predefined set of attributes. For cost information you can specify cost per activity execution as well as cost per hour spent by a resource. As a result you'll get cost information for human resources, functions and processes, both accumulated and per instance. So getting something like cost per product unit could be a bit difficult, unless it is directly related to the cost of a process instance.
ad 2) Yes, BPMN 2.0 flows are supported in addition to EPCs.
ad 3) Yes, you can import and export BPMN 2.0 models with the BPMN file format.