Over the past few years, ARIS has made its interface more user-friendly and intuitive. There has been a dramatic improvement in the ease of use as well as the accessibility and interconnectivity of information. They've also made it possible to collect data from massive enterprises into one repository. 

When talking about ease of use, you also have to distinguish between the everyday end-users and the people like me responsible for the entire setup and the back-end and the methodology. I'm working for a marketing company with a lot of creative people. They're not that interested in understanding everything the tool offers or what the software is about. They want to go in, consume their content and go out again. 

From this perspective, ARIS has improved dramatically with the new front-end portal called ARIS Connect. This is a great path forward, but it creates some complexities for the administrator because you need to decide which way to go while remaining consistent with what you decided in the first place. But for the end-user, that is a huge win, I would say. We get excellent feedback as well from the end-user about that.

The most valuable feature is the platform because it allows me to access different devices using different operating systems, such as Microsoft or Mac.

In terms of UX design, somebody who has not had experience with ARIS will be able to use it very easily. They will, however, need to have knowledge about architecture and the facilities that ARIS can provide in a business situation.

The most valuable feature is GUI; it is very intuitive and easy to use. You can also access advanced features; for example, if you want to automate the process fully, you can either use other Software AG components or import/export to integrate with other software as well.

The solution's most valuable feature stems from its being very easy to use, making it a very user-friendly tool. I can say the tool is very easy since even a person who does not have any knowledge can easily use it.

The cloud version has the advantage that you can work on it from anywhere. You can add data from your emails that are in the cloud, or use your mobile devices.

This tool has methods for modeling processes, which is our requirement.

If you have previous specifications for UML, EPC, BPMN then all of the models are equal.

In the end, what stands out to me is the ease of using the cloud. I don't see any distinct or unique advantages in business process modeling software compared to other application software. The cloud simplifies operations and removes many operational complexities, which is a significant benefit.          

We had used other products before Aris Cloud and we have chosen to go for the ARIS system. We are quite happy because it's very easy to collaborate with. It's very user-friendly, intuitive for the end-users to use the tool. So we are happy. It's perfectly answering our needs. If I compare again to what I know and what we used in the past, it's a very good tool.

All the features are good. They all compare feature for feature very, very well to other solutions. It can do anything. 

In terms of using the cloud version, if you're somebody who, like myself, has got a lot of experience and understands measures and notations and things, basically it's unrestricted. You can do so many things. There's lots of stuff you can do in there and if you're a good field person and you find yourself re-using things, then it's very nice, it's very easy to use. But unfortunately, when you work in a corporate where you have tons of people and you have people coming in and out, contractors and consultants coming on board, and then it can become messy.

There's a lot that I like about it. The modeling is fairly easy. Although, now that I'm used to the Symbio stuff, I love the fact that the model gets generated because now all your process models, all, regardless of who's working on the system, they look the same. There's no artist type qualification to work in the thing. Whereas in Aris or any of those products, you have to be a bit of an artist to make sure the stuff looks good.

The most valuable feature of this solution is its usability.

Aris Connect opens collaboration opportunities between team members within the organization where they can actually submit change requests, navigate processes, and offer comments. It opens up the potential for BPM within the organization. I didn't see such an angle of a BPM portal with any other products. So I would say that's the best selling feature.