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Hi Team,

 

is there possible to import a process diagram from SPARX EA to aris architect?

by Ralf Angeli
Posted on Wed, 02/02/2022 - 11:38

Yes, you can export from Sparx to a file in BPMN 2 XML format and files in this format can be imported by ARIS.

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by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:03

In reply to by sugantha

Hi,

what do you want your FAD to be in Sparx EA? BPMN is only about the process. If you want to map the other entities to UML classes you might first map your FAD objects to UML classes in ARIS UML Designer. From there it should be possible to export them as UML models. On the other hand: Once you learnt that ARIS comes with an integrated UML modelling component maybe there is no need any more for Sparx EA?

Besides the technical question: Why are you trying to depict the same things in two different tools? What is your business need?

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by sugantha chinnaswamy Author
Posted on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 08:44

In reply to by M. Zschuckelt

Thanks!!

 

my project team wants me to design a process in SPARX EA tool and export that diagram in ARIS -- I did export XML from sparx ea but unable to find to upload the file in ARIS .. Can you please assist me on this?

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by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 09:39

In reply to by sugantha

Hello,

sorry, I misunderstood your request. When Sparx exports an XML file in BPMN 2.0 schema you can import that to ARIS in the context menu of the group where you want the BPMN model to be.

Do I understand correctly you have further (non-BPMN) artefacts linked to your process in Sparx EA, that you want to see in FADs? Then I ask again for your business need why you want to keep this model data as a duplicate in Sparx EA? First thing you would have to duplicate is the library of objects you want to link, e.g. application system types, roles etc. and the second thing are the relationships between process steps and those objects.

 

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by Carsten Pitz
Posted on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 10:08

In reply to by M. Zschuckelt

In my experience Sparx EA is quite allowing while ARIS is rather strict. This leads to my question:

How does the ARIS importer deal with non-conforming constructs?

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by M. Zschuckelt
Posted on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:12

In reply to by pica

Hello Carsten,

the file should be conformant to BPMN 2.0 specification. There are extensions that are part of the specification, where tool implementations may put further information that is not part of the BPMN standard, but tool specific. Afaik ARIS will accept such extension information it does not understand, retains it and if you export the BPMN file again also produce the extensions again, so a roundtrip with a third-party BPMN 2.0 conformant tool should be feasible and has been demonstrated.

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