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“Implementing Internal Control: Overcoming the Practical Hurdles” was the title of the first session I attended to today. Ron Hartman (Manager Control Corporate HCME) showed insight together with one of my IDS colleagues Michiel Jorna ( Sr Consultant IDS Scheer The Netherlands) in Hitatchi implementing Internal Control supported by ARIS .

Beside some really nice impressions of Denmark’s capital city Copenhagen, being at ARIS ProcessWorld on tour gave me the opportunity to hear some really interesting thoughts and to have some nice discussions with people from all over the world until now. What I have in store for you in this article is the keynote of Dr.

On Wednesday ARIS ProcessWorld on tour opens its doors for the third time this year. After two great events in Munich and Prague, ProcessWorld is now coming to Copenhagen. Never before have so many BPM-, EA-, and ARIS experts gathered in the Nordics at the same time.

For the first time I joined Gartner’s Symposium ITexpo in Cannes. The event took place in the pretty famous Palais des Festivals de Cannes. The only difference: Where normally stars like Andy MacDowell or George Clooney walking smoothly over the red carpet, now Europe’s IT crowd jumping from workshop to presentation and from roundtables to the showrooms. At least a bit of Hollywood flavor came up...

The key to effective ITSM is ensuring that there is clear accountability and roles defined to carry out the practice of Service Operation. A role is often tied to a job description or work group description but does not necessarily need to be filled by one individual. The size of an organization, how it is structured, the existence of external partners and other factors will influence how roles...

Many people understand the need for BPM, but what do you use to convince senior managers that there are real, quantifiable, benefits from investing in implementing BPM? In this Webcast I will focus on understanding the nature of BPM and the short, medium and long term benefits of implementing it.

Everyone wants a good process. Our businesses would be more profitable if we had them. But do we know what a good process is? Would we recognized one if we saw it? And how do we ensure we can design them?

The ITIL Process Map is the starting point for all drill-down activities within the ARIS ITIL Reference Model . The Process Map structures all ITIL V3 processes and functions along the different ITIL Service Lifecycle Phases. For all processes and functions more detailed models depicting further information have been assigned.

What is ITIL?

I just returned from our weekly ARIS Express status meeting and I want to give you an update about the current progress. Not even 2 months ago, we released ARIS Express to the public, but there are already 10.000 registered copies. People from all over the world are using ARIS Express and share their models here in ARIS Community . Currently, you can also win an iPod Touch if you share your ARIS...

Here at ARIS BPM Community and ARIS BPM Blog, one would expect that we all have a common understanding what ARIS stands for. However, the term “ARIS” is like a chameleon, changing its meaning constantly depending on the context it is used in. For example, we use ARIS to refer to the software provided by IDS Scheer, but we also talk about the enterprise architecture framework ARIS and the modelling...

At the 14th of October the second BPM theme day for the SAP user group was organized in the Netherlands. The theme of the day was: Will the CIO be replaced by the Chief Processing Officer? More than 260 participants visited this BPM theme day although it was at the same day as the SAP World Tour (with 400 participants) was held. This means that BPM is getting more and more important for the SAP...

Tired of navigating to websites before searching them? Do you want to search the ARIS Community from your browser directly? Well Firefox users can do this using an Add-on named Add to Search Bar . Once installed there will be a new context menu item when clicking onto the ARIS Community search box.

Customer: “I want to automate my processes in a heterogeneous environment.” IDS: “No problem, but if you describe end to end processes you have to decide what middleware infrastructure will be the ruling one.” Customer: “I use SAP applications, some own developed applications and as middleware IBM WebSphere plays a role. Therefore no system has the lead.” IDS: “If an end to end process runs from...

IDS Scheer is currently working on an all new procduct: ARIS MashZone. It enables departmental users to create MashApps (composite applications) for evaluating a range of data. Employees gain better insights and have more freedom when it comes to preparing/presenting key performance indicators relevant to the decision-making process.