ARIS now free for research and education!

This would be a truly great news. As I'm new to ARIS-related products, could you please enlighten me which particular products are included in the aforementioned policy?

Many thanks.

Dear Dr. Huy Tran,

just take a look at the pages linked above. It has a detailed description of all possible products. Basically, you can get ARIS Business Architect, ARIS Business Server, ARIS Business Publisher, ARIS Process Performance Manager, and ARIS MashZone for free.

The University Relations team also provides various bundles, e.g. a virtual machine consisting of our modelling products plus learning material and lecturer notes.

Thank you very much.

Huy

Good afternoon!

At  unpacking ARIS-PDA archive there is a mistake: the archive is damaged. Download for the second time - the same. With ARIS Arсhitect everything is normal.

how it can be corrected?

Thanks

Hello everybody,

The corrupted files are deleted now. I re-uploaded the working ones. Furthermore I downloaded them from the ftp-server just like you do and the files extracted just fine for me now.

So you can start your downloads again ;)

Hope the files will work for you this time, too. Please let me know here if they do or do not.

Cheers

Moritz

All is good now! thank you very much!

One question: how I can change license key for ARIS Business Publisher? I have entered it incorrectly.

Hello Oksana,

Sorry but I don't get your question completely. Did you change the password for it already or can't you just remember the given one?

Cheers

Moritz

Sorry. I meant a license key.

I have the download link for ARIS Business Architect will receive via e-mail, this does not work, what can I do?

Hello Mr. Schön,

I understand your Problem has been resolved via email? If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

We recommend opening a new thread in this group though instead of using this one, as the topic of this thread is the announcement of the new offering.

Regards,

Tim

Dear,

for my master thesis I am doing a comparison of business process simulation tools. I wanted to include Aris business simulator in this study, so I have downloaded the Educational Package for students. After succesfully downloading i have encountered some problems:

-first of all, I can't download the VM player from their site. Although it is on their site advertised as free for trial, I think they recently decided to remove it as a free download. I've registered and all, but when I click the download link the page just refreshes. Also in another overview of their free download products, VM player is not listed.



-afterwards, I have managed downloading VM player from another source. But when I try to open Virtual Machine as displayed in the manual, I get an error. ("Error while powering on: The file specified is not a virtual disk)



I am now trying to download the files again on a different computer and will retry the whole process again tomorrow.

Can somebody help me whith these problems? Or is there another way to get the Aris business simulator module, because I don't need the other modules included in the Educational Package.

Thank you in advance

Dear Mr. Beerten,

I had a look at the VMWare website and I was unable to download the player as well ("Unable to process your request"). I don't think this is because they don't allow it though, but because of technical troubles, as everywhere I checked it is still listed as free. While this is the case, there are many alternative download sites you can easily find using google (chip.de, computerbild.de and heise online are just some examples, all links lead to the download).

I downloaded the ARIS Education Package from the Servers and started it in my VMWare player and it works perfectly fine. Here are all the steps you need to take to get your AEP to run correctly:

• Download all 4 parts (AEP-PDA_student.zip.001 - AEP-PDA_student.zip.004) of the virtual machine from the servers as indicated in the email you received.
• Extract the archive using 7zip. (Rightclick AEP-PDA_student.zip.001, select 7zip - extract files)
• Open the file AEP-PDA_1.2_Student with your VMWare player.

Unfortunately, the ARIS Education Package: Process Design and Analysis is currently the only way to get the ARIS Simulator.

Thank you for the help, but I keep getting the same problem. 

I download the 4 parts in the same folder, unzip the first 1, I get the AEP-PDA_1.2_Student vmx and vmdk file. Then when I try to open it withe the VWWare player (downloaded from computerbild.de) I always get the "Error while powering on: The file specified is not a virtual disk" message. Still don't know what I am doing wrong...

btw, is it normal that the size of those 2 files are 0 and 4 kb? Or is this a sign that there went something wrong with the unzipping?

Thanks in advance.

I think thats where your problem is. One of the files should be multiple gb. Maybe try a different unzipping program? 7zip worked fine for me.

I finaly found it! I noticed that the second zip file was only 700 something MB in stead of 1 GB, so there must have been a internet connection error while downloading the 002 file. After downloading it again, and following the steps, it worked fine. Thanks for all the help and patience. I can already say that for support the Aris tool is getting good marks in my thesis.

Hi,

We are an IT consulting company and We are holding a training session for 5 of our staff involving the ARIS ABD ( Business Designer) module in our office. The trainer is from an external organization whom we have hired for the two days of training.

There has been a problem because we do not have any ARIS licenses for the training period. The 5 Participants work at a client site who hold the ARIS licences and we obviously will not be able to use the client's license here in the head office.

The trainer has asked us to organize 5 licenses for the two days of training somehow.

Is there anyway we could receive license for just the 2 days of ARIS training.

Or, can you make this education version of free Aris Available to us for 2 days - 30th April and 1st May 2012?

The training will be held on April 30th 2012

Your response is greatly appeciated, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Soujanya

This is a much needed 'service' for the universities.  I have quite a few expressions of interest from my academic contacts, so this is great!

Thanks.

Hi.

I am having trouble obtaining the software as I am unable to provide your company with a staff profile URL. As we are not a university, we do not have staff profiles on our web site (http://qtac.edu.au). Therefore I am unfortunately not able to set up a profile web page on the QTAC web site. No one is permitted to do this.

The institution which I work for (QTAC) is funded by all the Queensland (Australia) tertiary institutions (ie. universities, TAFE colleges, etc) and takes care of processing applications for those institutions.

Therefore I am not a teacher or a student, but an IT Staff member (Business Analyst) and technically where I work is not a university, but it is recognised as a educational institution in this country (hence the edu.au domain on our web site http://qtac.edu.au). We also therefore qualify automatically for all educational pricing on software and hardware.

Can you please advise any other way I can provide evidence of my employment here? I offered confirmation from my manager (manager of IT) or the CEO her but that has been rejected.

Regards.

Don Adams.

Dear Mr. Adams,

Our University Relations ARIS licenses agreements only include research and education purposes, such as use in a lecture or a thesis. Use of ARIS to improve university IT systems, for example, is considered commercial use. If you wish to use ARIS for those purposes, contact your local Software AG Sales Representative.

Best Regards,

Tim

Hi, 

I thank you for the opportunity to use ARIS free of charge for education projects but I have some problems with the installation.

I've tried for several days to download and install the PDA Faculty package but everytime I have the same problems "header zip damaged" and it is not possible to open the file. I've tried with winzip,  winrar and also with izarc. I've downloaded the five files several times and tried even more.

Please you can support me and suggest a solution. 

Thank you

Best Regards

Mariangela

Hi Mariangela,

Please note: this is not a support thread so please try to keep on topic. If you experience difficulties with one of the provided services, feel free to open a new topic in our section or use this thread: http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/mojoxy/2012-03-20-university-relations-qa

Thank you

Moritz

Great news.

Does this offer also apply to staff members from the HR and financials department?

Hi

I have one question. Now I have written a text book (in Korean) for business process reengineering. I want to use the ARIS Business Architect to explain how to create and manage business process models in the text book. Is it possible to include some screen captures of the ARIS Business Architect in the text book under University Relations ARIS licenses? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Best regards

Seung-Kil Lim

Hello,

I have been using Aris for my studies and I find it extremely useful. I would like to extend my license since it will expire in March and the email I received from you states that I could extend it. 

How do I do that and for how long will I be able to use it ?

Thank you so much

Hi

my licence come to end i want to renew with but  server only propose 9.6 licence

how CAN i   get aris pda 7.2 licence?

Best regards

Hey,

You can find some help in the FAQ.

But we recommend to migrate to the  ARIS 9.

Cheers

Kai-Hendrik