Idea for approval workflow enhancement - what do you think?

Hi,

Let's leave aside the question of how the ideas portal works itself and how those ideas become alive (it seems Klemens Hauk had a good note about it).

All those aka-APG/ARIS-governance stuff will not work in the real world, and that is why:

1. Usually, ARIS operates in an IT environment where the Enterprises already have different workflow/docflow tools. And those tools cover not only one process flow but also everything - SOPs approvals, policies approvals, various applications, etc. Therefore, having a separate tool that covers only a small area of all those business needs... is very questionable. Most clients experiment with APG and then return to their ordinary tools, linking them to the ARIS portal as necessary. 

2. If you are not going to use a proper full APG (but something primitive like in ARIS Advanced), in 99% cases the APG process will be far from reality, because a real Governance process contains many reviewers, co-reviewers, co-approvers, different loops, and complicated logic. Could it be covered with a simple task, such as 'confirm' or 'not confirm'? Of course not. Why do we need it then? 

3. And if we are talking about a proper APG... if you would count how much it costs to execute one process instance in APG (take server cost + license + training + maintenance + coding + support)... usually it is far from appropriate. 

So, IMHO, I don't think ARIS should play in the field of Process Governance automation. There are so many areas of improvement where ARIS should take attention.

Regards 

Hi,

APG is not at all the point here- the idea is only to reduce the number of clicks and to improve usability for ppl who own a task.

If you have improvements concerning the APG- feel free to raise ideas yourself.

Best,

Veronika