Realtime and ad-hoc collaboration in ARIS

Hi!

Very interesting feature!

Answering on your questions:

1. About ARIS Express. IMHO, it doesn’t make sense to add this feature to AE because AE cannot be used in serious process modeling projects. And AE is ‘eating’ too many resources of PC now to support also this feature.

2. Skype scenario would be nice! (select model -> select user -> make ‘call’)

3. Very interesting question! But we should answer on two:

3.1 Number of users. Average number of ARIS users is 4-5 for Easters Europe company, and as a rule all this staff is concentrated in same department / same office. Do you need this feature at this case? I think no (IMHO).

3.2 Purposes of using. IMHO again, but I think this feature would be nice for ‘online’ model check, for example by PM. But for model building it can be useless, because it is impossible for different Business analysts build the same model at the same time :)

I agree in regards to AE - the use case for AE is the casual modeler that might not use this type of collaboration.

<offtopic> If we start a wishlist here - I would love to see the asynchronous collaboration features of ARISalign in the professional ARIS installations. An alternative would be to include social networking open source SW as an add-on to an ARIS installation (e.g. WordPress with BuddyPress on Publisher server). This would be very helful for the org change management activities in a project. </offtopic>

Thank you Alexander,

I appreciate your input. I understand your arguments - if typical Express use cases are in general geographically restricted (especially in one office ;-) )  this feature wouldn’t add value. We’ll check this in our further analysis!

@Roland: I like your idea for process portals based on publisher, would make it by far more interactive.

Hello Karl,

This is a feature in the right direction, collaboration across a team and teams is key in any project. What would however be nice to see is a solution based more on the model of the different web based collaboration suites currently available. Say Google Docs for example where an entire team can share document and model data in real time and in a shared environment allowing for check ins and chek outs including versioning control. Google Wave (wave.google.com) is another  collaboration site which also includes a model designer although a bit limited but the idea is there.

Hello Jo, I also believe that all the new collaboration possibilities - synchronous and asynchronous ones - will offer a new ways of driving BPM projects. We will take your ideas into account when we further discuss our offering in this area, this won't be our last collaboration piece, I’m pretty sure.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

Hi Karl,

1. It makes all thesense to extend the collaborative feature to Aris Express, since in small team which are beginners with the software is is key get help or peer review of the modeling , or to do in a team the modeling together.

2. Answered in item 1

3 the members of the stakeholders team , but managed by the organizer that can or allow them to do it.

Hi Karl,

When will be available the collaborative feature to Aris Express?

kind regards

Dear Victor,

That discussion is 12 years old. Since then the commercial ARIS product has been evolved a lot. ARIS Express' architecture doesn't offer user management, hence, a collaboration between users couldn't be established without that.

If you need collaboration for your joint modeling project approach, then have a look at ARIS Advanced which offers that: ARIS Pricing - ARIS Cloud

Cheers
Runè

Dear Rune,

Thank you  for your reply.

Victor