BPMN 2 is the new and heavily extended version of the popular business process modelling notation by OMG. Most major and minor vendors in the BPM space committed to support this standard, so does IDS Scheer. Some weeks ago, we updated our professional products and added BPMN 2 support. Today, we make BPMN 2 modelling available to everyone with the release of ARIS Express 2.0.
The new version of ARIS Express (you can find upgrade instructions here) supports modelling collaborative process models using swimlanes. This collaboration diagram is the most commonly used BPMN model type. Besides modelling a process between different parties, you can also use it to model your own private process as shown in the example process attached to this post.
As before, you can also share your ARIS Express BPMN 2 model with other users of ARIS Community by uploading it to the site. There is another article describing in detail how to upload your ARIS Express model to ARIS Community.
We hope the release of ARIS Express 2.0 will speed-up BPMN 2 adoption in industry. We are eager to know if you are using BPMN already or if you are interested to start using it in the future. Do you speak BPMN 2 already?
WIth the introduction of the bpmn model type, can I convert this to an EPC? Specifically the bpmn has the symbol for subprocess, which I read to be used the same as a process interface. As ARIS Express EPC does not have the Process interface and this is sadly missed by my modelers, if I introduce them to bpmn can they accomplish the same results?
(yes this is a shameless request to get the process interface symbol into the ARIS Express EPC)
thanks
donald
Hello, I recognised that aris express support subprocesses in the bpmn and the tool allow to zoom in and out to subprocesses. Why I can't do this with activities in the epc? Or did I missed something? The implementation of the bpmn is a nice feature... thanks!
Thomas
Hi Donald,
pecifically the bpmn has the symbol for subprocess, which I read to be used the same as a process interface.
A sub-process and a process interface are total different things. For details about the process interface see
http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/weerakhan/2009-10-15-how-use-process-interface-properly
A subprocess is defined by the BPMN 2 spec as:
A Sub-Process is an Activity whose internal details have been modeled using Activities, Gateways,
Events, and Sequence Flow. A Sub-Process is a graphical object within a Process, but it also can be
“opened up” to show a lower-level Process. Sub-Processes define a contextual scope that can be used for
attribute visibility, transactional scope, for the handling of exceptions (see page 283 for more details), of
Events, or for compensation (see page 314 for more details).
The construct of a process interface could be compared to the intermediate link event in BPMN
As ARIS Express EPC does not have the Process interface and this is sadly missed by my modelers, if I introduce them to bpmn can they accomplish the same results?
If you want to use process interfaces for navigation, then you could use intermediate link events in combination with the link attribute which would refer to the other model.
A comparison of the use of BPMN instead of epc for process modelling was already discussed in a post:
http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/ivo/2009-06-28-bpmn-orand-epc
(yes this is a shameless request to get the process interface symbol into the ARIS Express EPC)
Nice try :), but please have a look here
http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/dja001/2009-07-29-missing-object-process-interface
Regards
Jens
Hi Debdoot,
Visio files? I got something for you:
How to import Visio files: www.ariscommunity.com/help/aris-express/36552/
Standard model type mapping: www.ariscommunity.com/help/aris-express/37050/
These links describe the import of Visio files into ARIS Express, but in ARIS Business Architect, current Service Release SR05, you are able to import Visio files as well but also to create your own mapping between Visio and ARIS objects!
Please be aware that you can only import "VDX" Visio files from Visio version 2007.
Bye,
Frank