Darja tried to initiate a discussion about AI here in the community in January:
https://ariscommunity.com/users/osipova/2025-01-24-aris-ki#comment-31552
where Alexander was skeptical and I more optimistic.
Releasing SR28, again one of the top topics is the AI companion for generation of models based on text, and for improving the search functionality. Did you already make experiences with AI companion (unfortunately only available in the Enterprice Cloud version). Do you use it in a productive environment or experimentally only? What do you think, is this the future? Does it replace process modelers, perspectively? (same question for programmers replaced by generative AI). Or is it an unrealistic wish of managers hoping to reduce manpower for the IT and process department and for modelers reducing the sometimes more laborious effort to interview expertes, organizing workshop and so on to develop Is- and Should process models?
My view: The actual status of the AI companion as seen from the demos generating models (I have no personal experience as I have no access to the Enterprise version) is still not more than a first approach. I am still optimistic that the AI support will be enhanced dramatically in future. But: My actual experience as lecturer, trainer and coach in the BPM area is, that the problems in the day-to-day work in many companies are much more basic and (by the way) often not tool specific. I commented - as answer to a blog article - not to forget these process modelers in the release planning and asked for an "ideas release" for ALL ARIS products, implementing the sometimes very small requests documented in the Ideas Portal which often have the potential to improve the usability of ARIS, actually more than the AI experiments.
Regards
Klemens
