In this tutorial, we will give you an overview of the model-to-execute functionality and highlight the main features.
These features support:
- Business blueprinting that is to say the modeling, review and validation of the business process as an event driven-process chain, so called EPC in ARIS
- Solution design including the transformation of the EPC model into a BPMN model
- Share with IT - the hand-over of the model to IT, its reception and change if necessary in webMethods.
- As well as the synchronization between ARIS and webMethods – this means the update of the business process model with the technical changes and vice versa.
We will demonstrate this based on an example. Our demo company United Motor Group wants to bridge the gap between business blueprint and IT automation. The event-driven process chain represents the business blueprint on the to-be process Car loan application as designed by the financial services department
Look now at the transformation of the EPC into the more technical BPMN notation.
Go to the ribbon BPM and select generate BPMN. As a result you can see the created BPMN model opened.
This is the basis for technical enhancements in ARIS, the so called Solution Design.
It is now ready to be shared with IT to complete the process automation project.
Select the menu entry Share with IT in the BPM Ribbon.
At this point, the built in workflow exports the model to webMethods and informs the relevant person via email about his implementation task.
The process was successfully transferred to webMethods and is now ready for technical implementation. For this it can be first reviewed and enhanced.
Here you can see how the developer adds a new technical task. This change can be synchronized back in ARIS.
At the same time, there may be some changes in the business modeling. As you can see the business analyst also adds a new task directly in the EPC and then updates the corresponding BPMN model.
To review and update the business process model with the changes, you can see the list of differences. You can accept or refuse them by selecting the task and choosing the entry “accept replacement”. In this case, you can do this for task one AND also for task two.
You can also transfer these changes from IT into the EPC in the so called split view. To do so, click on “align processes” and select “align with EPC”. Choose the task and transfer the change. Now the process is aligned in ARIS and can be updated in webMethods!
Now you know more about how ARIS supports the conceptual process design, prepares automation projects in webMethods and keeps it all in synch.
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