The following article will explain how you can use ARIS Business Simulator for simulation purposes within your company. Based on the more general article on the subject of simulation published by Geoff Hook I would like to share personal experiences relating to project work that involves the use of ARIS Business Simulator (formerly known as ARIS Simulation).
Having business processes designed as EPC (see Nina’s post ) we now move forward in the EBPM lifecycle (see Thomas’ post ) towards their implementation. Understanding BPM as a management practice, this certainly includes both organizational and technical implementation projects.
Hi all, There are only five weeks left to ProcessWorld Berlin 2011 and we are busy as a bee planning and preparing to offer you a great event. Here the latest ProcessWorld news:
On April 1st, I fooled readers of ARIS Community by claiming that in the next service release ARIS is abandoning the EPC notation and forcing its users to go with BPMN 2. I didn't imagine the April's fool to work that well, because it would be a very unprofessional move by a tool vendor to de-support the method he marketed for more than 10 years. We are not unprofessional and we won't do that -...
The previous part focused on areas such as expressive power, readability and enterprise architecture. This one, written jointly with Roland Woldt , dwells on a few more aspects such as semi-structured processes, exceptions, loops and data handling.
After having read the overall story about Enterprise BPM and the role services play within this approach, I would like to dive into the modeling aspect of Enterprise BPM .
Software AG was among a comprehensive set of tool vendors that Forrester invited to participate in its The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011. Last week Forrester published the result and you will find Software AG ranked as a leader! In this new Forrester Wave™, Software AG was given the HIGHEST score for strategy, which proves that Software AG is on the right track...
+++ THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO COMMENTED/READ/TOOK PART! WE HAVE REACHED THE 98,000 SO THE GUESSING IS OVER! +++ The answer is MEMBERS! It is hard to believe… Since the launch of ARIS Community in May 2009 we reached more than 91,000 members! I cannot hide it: we are proud of this. And the consequence of this is that we will welcome member no. 100,000 soon! But the question is: WHEN? What do you...
In the initial article of the EBPM blog series Thomas Stoesser explained, that Model-to-Execute (M2E) resembles a methodology focused on process automation that is driven by requirements and definitions coming from process transformation efforts. But how will these business requirements be communicated to IT? To answer this question I’d like to categorize requirements in the context of M2E into 2...
There were several posts and discussions on the topic of "BPMN vs. EPC". One of them is quite comprehensive and its discussion thread very interesting. But there are still many important points untouched and I'd like to share some of them for those facing a choice of business process notation.
One of today’s biggest challenges of CIOs is to transform IT into a flexible construct which is able to react fast on business changes and meet business expectations. At the same time CIOs have to cut cost with the result that they have to deliver more with less. But managing IT just by its cost is out-dated. The only chance to deal with this challenge is to increase operational efficiency of IT...
In the last decade new technologies and market needs fostered globally distributed teams and processes. We see an increasing number and impact of distributed teams in our own ARIS development as well as at our customer’s site. These changes speed up and are supported by new technologies like Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 or the well known Social Networks that are used to for business contacts.
In a few days we will release ARIS MashZone 2.1. This version introduces a range of new features. Some of these are for example, new visualization opportunities for Google Maps™ or customizable chart colors.
Today, we introduce a new series at ARIS Community: Interviews with BPM experts . As the first one, we are happy and proud to introduce Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl , the colleague that became second at the first German BPM championship !
Complex Event Processing (CEP) gained more and more attention in research and practical usage during the last years. Several engines and languages have been created and adapted in order to handle complex events. To describe the aggregation of simple events to more complex ones, these engines use technical and formal languages which are difficult to handle for business experts. Hence, business...
