ARIS BPA Primary Use Case
We have used the platform to describe purchases and the organizational structure in the company.
I personally use it at home as well as in the company. I received a key for the application, which I won based on a competition when version 7 of ARIS was being tested. I sent in some test cases where I had several failures during that test.
My organization's market is only in the Czech Republic. We don't have any experience using the solution globally.
View full review »We have three main use cases. The first is that ARIS is our central repository to document our standards, meaning our business processes, our organization, our data, and our IT capability landscape.
The second use case is to manage our application landscape. We have all the applications that we use inventoried in ARIS, about 3,000 of them. It's used to manage all the information related to those applications, such as where an application is used, how many users there are, what the current version is, as well as the contracts connected with this application and who the product or solution owners are.
The third use case is process mining. We are using ARIS to reconstruct a process as it has been effectively executed and to automatically calculate some key performance indicators.
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Bora Perzic
Enterprise Architect EA Tooling (APM) at Acrostine
Over the years I have used ARIS in many ways depending on the project, and I have experience with many different versions of it. I've used versions seven, eight, and now ten. About ten years ago, I worked on developing ARIS and its standardization for six months.
When I first started using it, I used to build a center of excellence for a global project. We used it to document the expansion process of our company to the global market. There were a lot of Visio files and it was quite disorganized since anyone could edit the files however they would like. We tried to turn the Visio files into something more formal. For a year, we used a low-end tool to document the process. With ARIS, we documented around 2,000 processes. We used it to organize and create a publishment where people could find what they're looking for.
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The core use case is rooted in a non-financial risk program. For people reading who aren't involved in financial services, there are both financial risks within financial institutions making credit and lending decisions and non-financial risks, which are similar to those faced by many enterprises. These are the elements within life which can negatively impact a business that are not related to finance. A really good example is COVID in the last couple of years, which caused fundamental shifts in operating models. Therefore, our program is seeking to address the non-financial risks within our environments, which is being done through initially capturing the processes that power the bank.
At the end of November, we recently completed a migration into the cloud solution provided by Software AG. As a consequence of that, we jumped a number of versions to 10.15.
It is a private cloud SaaS solution provided by Software AG.
View full review »It's mainly used for our customers. The biggest plus point was interfacing with JDE or SAP. With a click of a button, you can import all the current processes the company is using in your chosen notation.
View full review »We have three main use cases. One is process management and the second is ICS (internal control system). Our third use case is very important for us: to evaluate the operational risk situation of our company, not only of the company itself but of the whole group. It was one of our requirements to find a system that could, on the one hand, evaluate risks for each company in the group, and on the other hand, conglomerate these risk situations for the whole group.
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Andrew-Lim
Managing Director at Optus
ARIS was used to capture current business processes in ARIS EPC through a series of workshops. Level 1-3 VACD, Level 4 EPC (Event-driven Process Chain) and FAD (Function Allocation Diagram), Activities, Roles, Metrics, Risk and Control, RACI, etc.
It was used to operationalize new business processes and also in preparation for a case management system migration to Salesforce. The management, team leader, and staff were trained to read the EPC process model and taught how to navigate ARIS in the production environment.
View full review »Most of the use cases I worked with were for documenting processes and trying to do some visual analysis with the stakeholders involved in those processes. It was a very convenient way because the solution has a repository. It's an integrated database where you can see a lot of interconnected views of your whole enterprise, including applications, roles, processes, documents, risks, and controls.
You can model everything about your enterprise in an interconnected repository, which you cannot easily do with other document-based tools like Visio. An object you place in a document doesn't really have any connection to the same object with the same name that you place in another model.
The solution's flexibility, reporting, and ability to customize your set of models, connections, objects, and attributes was really a positive thing. That's why many customers use ARIS BPA, and we recommend it for those scenarios.
We use BPA for modeling and documenting in a central repository. We are customers of ARIS and I'm a process professional.
View full review »We use the solution to collect information, design, publish, and validate the process. We can implement the process according to the improvements that can be retrieved. We monitor the process before the four phases of discovery, design, publishing, and implementation.
View full review »I have been working with ARIS across different projects in several companies, including a project where we implemented ARIS.
In my current company, we use ARIS for business process mapping, capability management, and process analysis. In some of my previous jobs, we used it as a tool for quality and compliance management, because processes are obviously the basis for audits. In this respect, ARIS always came in very handy.
View full review »We use ARIS BPA for process modeling and the repository of our processes.
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Kim Holm
Interprise Architect/Chief Architect/Project, Portfolie manager at KLH-Consulting
The primary use for the solution is as an enterprise architect tool, but in the start it was about processing; modeling all kind of business processes. And that was before I even mention BPMN. Today, we have switched to using BPMN to do all the different kinds of business process modeling.
This product is supporting it very well.
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Beenish Mustafa
Consultant at KAFD DMC
We are modeling different processes and documenting all of them using the solution.
We use it for creating a structured record of our processes and for updating them. We also use it to analyze how strategic changes in our company may impact these processes.
We work with the cloud solution. We don't have to have anything installed on our computers locally. We designed the processes and the framework ourselves.
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Jon_Robinson
Director at Celeris Software, Inc.
ARIS BPA was underutilized because they used the ARIS modeling paradigm, including value-added chains, EPCs, and functional allocation diagrams.
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Harald Sommer
Organizational Development Officer at OeKB
We use BPMN for process design. We check our processes. There is the start event, then there are the tasks and steps as well as risks on the steps and controls. In the end, there is a result event of the process. There is a hierarchy model through the processes themselves to locate, classify, and build a whole tree off of the complete process design. So, we try to get the complete process model in all the layers. It is not only about flow diagrams. You also need the hierarchy system in the process design to get an idea of which business area it is, which products we handle there, etc. This is to get some kind of a systematic approach to a wide area of the complete company, e.g., which services are delivered from whom and how it is organized.
We separated the fields. We had some kind of internal control system, which was one use case for us. We had risk management and how to get a picture up of the actual risk evaluation. We had the policy management separated. We started process management. This is all integrated on the technical side and the tools' side. We tried to get the different solutions out of the one system to see them as different solutions with different responsible people with different roles behind them.
It fits all together, so there are no completely loose ends, where there is one philosophy and one architecture behind it. We managed to get it a little bit separated, but it has good connection process management, internal control systems, and a risk system. It is very well-integrated.
We are using Connect and ARCM. ARCM is the ARIS governance, risk, and compliance module to do workflow-orientated stuff, e.g., how much is your risk.
Another use case is value chain processes. These are in a hierarchy built up through the company and our business use cases since we have export and capital market services. At the bottom, we decided to use only a business process model notation (BPMN), which made it possible for us to integrate on this flow chart. This integrates risks and controls directly on a flow chart, making it easier for non-super process experts to get an idea of the steps, controls, and risk as well as how this all fits together to get a good overview at the starting point when working with these processes.
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David March
CEO at Exergy Energy
Our customers have generators on their facilities, and we manage those generators to provide services to the grid and reduce their costs. It involves peak shaving and that sort of stuff. We use ARIS BPM to essentially automate the communication to the grid and the generator and then update all of the account information regarding those transactions.
View full review »We use the platform for document automation and capture all the processes.
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Vice President Change Management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use ARIS BPA for various operations and processes.
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NeerajRana
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
ARIS has many modules starting right from strategy to dashboarding. However, the primary focus of using ARIS is for Business Process Modeling/Analysis - although it is not just limited to process but can cover the entire enterprise architecture for an organization.
We have used ARIS for multiple projects with different objectives, including E2E process modeling, managing IT application landscape, support for eTOM frameworks, managing risk/compliance, rules modeling, et cetera.
We have leveraged it for multiple client engagements with different objectives of the program, including digital transformation journeys, IT landscape rationalization, process transformation, process improvement, process automation, S4/HANA Migration, process rationalization, legacy modernization, and much more.
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reviewer1731534
Global Process and Control Improvement at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I work at a beverage manufacturer. We use ARIS BPA to design and publish our core processes.
View full review »The tool defines the processes. It's the documentation of everything.
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AnkushJain
Principal Consultant - DPA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I am part of an IT service organization and working in capacity of Advisory Consultant where various customers seek advice for Business Process Analysis. The primary use case is Business Architecture Modeling, however, I've suggested ARIS BPA as an upstream to many implementations.
I have used ARIS Architect, Designer, and ARIS Connect for various other models to complete overall Enterprise Architecture Modeling be it Applications Models, Information/Data Models or Technology/Infrastructure Models.
ARIS-Solman Integration is another useful use case when it comes to ARIS BPA.
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Mxolisi TrevorNgwenya
Financial System Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for enhancing systems.
View full review »The process modeling capabilities are what we use this for primarily.
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Aysin Yilmaz
BPM Assistant Manager at TEB
I used to work for the company who set this solution up for customers. However, I am now an end-user, and perform the role of system architect.
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reviewer2239197
Junior Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
We use the product for modeling business scenarios and processes. It helps in designing BPMN and functions.
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reviewer2208987
Founder & CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
In Dubai, telecom uses it, and banks just for business process optimisation. We just got until the start of the other products with areas like process performance. They called it PPM, and we didn't have projects for that. But mostly, we used it for those basic projects of optimising the business process and documentation.
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O.Michael Olaiya
Process Transformation Lead at Jaguar Land Rover
It is used primarily as a process documentation and repository platform. It's also used to organise desktop procedures.
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Mohammed Sulty
Principal Consultant at Palmira
Most of my projects are in business process management and digital transformation. I'm using this tool for authentication.
We're heavy users. We're using it to manage the marketing use cases, for example, requirements management, subscription planning, project management, and other tools to be deployed in our projects.
The tool to be used in all our projects so internally we're using it for requirements management, project management, and for example, to maintain our ISO certificate.
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reviewer1598529
Estagiária em processos
I am using this solution for a school project. I am using it in my laboratory back in Uni for research.
View full review »We primarily use this solution for process design, improvements, and publishing.
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reviewer1381584
Senior manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The primary use of the solution is to analyze the processes and design.
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Edward Maicelo
Manager at Entel
All macro processes and processes in the area of continuous improvement were modeled in the company. These were done with the primary purpose of documentation and having a centralized place for processes.
Primary use case of the solution is for implementing the digital management system of a company, documenting processes, documents, IT system, roles, and organization, and, of course, their interconnections.
ARIS is really flexible in terms of what you can do to customize your methodology, so it supports various flavors of management system implementations. For example, some companies have a greater focus on Risk and Compliance management, SAP implementations and roll-outs, process improvement and reorganization, etc.
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Wayne Richards
Business Solutions at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees
The reporting by ARIS is clearly helps us see which resources are doing enough.
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reviewer1112451
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One of the main demands that we have at the moment from our customers is not only to map and share their diagrams but also to govern them and automate them. Our major customers come from the banking sector and we also have 2/3 of the telcos and some insurance companies of our country on board. We are a partner with ARIS and I'm the senior manager.
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AmitChauhan
CEO at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
ARIS BPM is an excellent platform to define, design, and analyse business processes. We have used ARIS to establish business process frameworks in organizations based on various frameworks like CMMI, EFQM, Malcolm, etc. Also, ARIS BPM is used to analyse, simulate, and optimize business processes.
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Niels Doeleman
Managing Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and ARIS BPM is one of the products that we implement for our clients.
View full review »For integration purposes, where files or data from different systems are generated and passed on to the next one in the format accepted by that system.
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reviewer1859217
Business/Process Analyst at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use the solution for enterprise process management. It helps us to find gaps and improve the processes.
View full review »Our primary use case is for process modeling.
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Bruno Ricci
Project & Process Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
My first use case using ARIS was in a Brazilian tax project for a global cosmetic company. All the flows had to be analysed by the global team regarding the core model synergy.
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BusArch677
Business Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are now using ARIS BPM long-term. We are using it as the default tool for our team analytics. For meetings, we use ARIS BPM. For some of the meetings, we use EPC, but we're planning to move to ARIS BPM. We also use ARIS BPM as the solution architect with those models.
We are currently reviewing the accuracy of ARIS BPM in moving data to the enterprise for analytics.
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Vedran Zulin
Information Security Consultant
I use ARIS Express mainly for additional presentational graphics. It gets my ideas across more clearly to my colleagues. I use it on my laptop and run it on Windows OS.
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reviewer1559709
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As the name suggests, it is a process performance monitoring tool. It is used for discovering or finding the gap between what has been designed and what has been implemented. This is one of the checks that you can do with the help of BPM, and then you can re-engineer your process in a very correct manner.
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AhmedBadr
Business Process Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I am modeling BPMN in ARIS to be ready to execute on webMethods and describing business requirements in relationship to BPMN’s tasks to technical and business references.
View full review »Used for BPMN training and consulting activities on different customers and several industries, such as health care, financial, and automotive.
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