Hi,
I was wondering if someone could give me some guidance on a particular topic in ARIS. I am tasked with building out some documentation on an industry, and in turn, overlaying our company's service capabilities on the applicable functional areas/process. I have built out most of the function trees and now need to figure out how to visually tie our services/products with the various functional areas.
Does anyone have expertise in this area? In my mind I was visualizing a user being able to hover over a particular part of the function tree and the applicable services our company offers would pop-out or enlarge. Is this possible in ARIS? I'm open to any suggestions.
Keep in mind that I am a new user to ARIS and have only been using it for a few months. My previous experience to BPM has been in Vizio.
Thanks!
Mike N.
Hello Mike,
there are two options you should evaluate. The key question to be answered is, how you want to model your company's services. ARIS offers the object types "Service type" and "Capability". Both may be connected to Functions with the "supports" connection. From my experience, "Service type" is more likely the one you will get happy with. The capability object type to some people seems a bit biased to be used as "IT capability" by the connection options it has.
As to the "pop-up" or "enlarge" features: The standard ARIS way is to create "Assignments" to each function, i. e. you assign a dedicated model to each function of type "Function allocation diagram" (FAD). You navigate to the assigned model with the "Assignment" icon of the function symbol. In such a model you can place almost anything that is connectable to a function (and that your filter permits).There you would model the support of the Function by a capability or service type.
If you already have ARIS Connect 9.7 in your company, you also have some options to create beautiful custom views on your functions without the necessity to navigate to the FAD. Then the FAD is the modeller's view and in Connect you get the user's view. But I'm not too familiar with this functionality, yet. And it requires administering the ARIS Connect profile, if you do not find your desired view out-of-the-box.
Regards, M. Zschuckelt
