Commercial use of ARIS Express? Yes you can!

Am I correct in assuming that should IDS make the licensing terms for ARIS Express more restrictive (eg start charging for it), go out of business or stop releasing it for any reason, the software would effectively become useless to users overnight, or until their PC's running ARIS Express fail (due to the license restriction on transferring the software to other machines).

This would make long term reliance on the software (albeit free, but not open source), a risk.

Any organisation needs to understand the value of their software, once the supplier is no longer around.  And preferably have assurances of that position prior to it happening.

Hi Bob,

thanks for bringing up those important points. It is true that we have the right to discontinue ARIS Express. On the other hand, it will not happen that we start charging for ARIS Express. In those cases, please consider that IDS Scheer/Software AG is a professional global company and not just a minor player in the BPM market. If we discontinue ARIS Express, we will provide a meaningful upgrade path to similar offerings so that work by our users is not lost.

Hello Sebastian

" title> " title>Interesting post this.

" title>Following the example you cited the university, where a private organization can install the Express Aris with a single account and, for example, provide the software on an intranet page?

" title>There are limits users to access the software with the same account?

" title>Thank's



Celso

Hi Celso,

no, it is never permitted to use a single account for multiple installations or an installation, which is accessed by multiple users. The license terms make no difference between private and commercial use, so all rules apply to both entities.

So yes, there is a limit of how many users may access the software with a single account. The limit is exactly 1.

Thanks Sebastian!

Hi Sebastian -- Incase I want to use ARIS Express on my Business Laptop / Desktop and also on my Personal Laptop / Desktop (at home)?...

• Can that be done using a single ARIS Community account 

OR

• would that require 2 separate ARIS Community accounts (which is very very inconvenient)?

Hi Shankar,

in that case you only need one ARIS Community account, because we say one account per individual using ARIS Express is needed.

Thanks Sebastian -- that clarification is much appreciated :-)

Hi Sebastian,

I have two questions:

1) Is there any limit of how many models / objects can be created inside ARIS Express ?

2) Can I export a model created in ARIS Express to another person who uses a full (or more complete) ARIS Version ?

Thanks in advance,

Vladimir

Hello,

i have the same question: it´s possible to export models created in ARIS Express to a full ARIS Version ?

Thanks and regards,

Anja

Hi Vladimir and Anja,

ARIS Express has no built-in limitation in terms of number of models or objects. But I expect that at some point you will run out of space, because the canvas size is limited. But from a technical point of view it should be no problem to add 10,000 objects to a single model.

ARIS Express stores its content in so called ADF files. You can either send those files to someone else also using ARIS Express or you can upload them into our professional products like ARIS Business Architect. In fact, this is already done by some organisations to collect input from departments about their business processes before they consolidate it in a central repository.

Hello,

I can not import models constructed in Aris Express for the Aris Architect on a machine that does not have the Aris Express installed?

Thanks!

Hi Celso,

the import should work without ARIS Express installed. It is probably related to a different problem.

Hi Sebastian,

We significantly use the Commercial Version of ARIS at our firm and for our clients.. And it is only logical that we use ARIS express as the offline editor, and as a replacement for Visio.. and to promote ARIS and familiarize users with the standards and features of ARIS..

I understand that the current licensing doesnt allow more than 1 user using the same account.. But this is a significant bottleneck in us promoting the use of ARIS Express .. whilst the registration might be only a 5min effort.. but from a user perspective why would they want to take the extra effort, when they already have MS Visio installed.. 

Is there a contact i could reach out to for further deliberation on this? (my personal email address is aswin.rajan@gmail.com)

Thanks

Ash 

Hi Ash,

I contacted you by email.

Hi, AG Team!



My name is Antonio and i work in a federal government entity in Brazil.



I'd like to install and use the free ARIS Express app on my job desktop for running internal projects and normal activities of processes modeling in the entity's areas/departments.



Could you please objectively confirm that we are allowed to instal and use this app (and related ARIS Community accounts per each user/installation) with the exclusive purpose mentioned above having no apparent problems of violating any prohibited commercial use situation referred in the software terms of use (http://www.ariscommunity.com/terms-of-use#terms)?



Thanks in advance!