ARIS Business Simulator

Interactive process simulation

See at-a-glance overviews of simulated models, simulation status and evaluations in the form of statistical tables and diagrams. Manage simulation runs via a toolbar, menu or a simple keystroke.

You can stop and start simulation runs, regulate process speed and execute the simulation step-by-step. While the simulation is running, you can animate model objects and see resulting attributes, which are updated continuously for each object.

Extensive data collection

Collect a wealth of statistics during a simulation and then use these stats according to your analysis needs. For example:

• Function stats tell you the number of executions and wait times
• Process stats show the number of completed process instances and throughput times

Central ARIS repository

No unnecessary modeling effort required! ARIS Business Simulator uses process designs and data, such as cost, times and volumes, from the central ARIS repository. Because the tool is fully integrated into ARIS Business Architect, processes captured by ARIS provide the baseline data for simulating business processes.

Process risk simulation

Deal with operational risks in unprecedented ways. Simulation has been used intensively for classic market and credit risk scenarios. Now it’s available to check operational risks along a process chain. You can analyze dependencies between business processes, risks and controls.

Using the standard modeling conventions, you can incorporate risk and control objects into the process models in question. Then, you can add information to further define risk-occurrence probabilities as well as damage distribution values, control effectiveness, sample sizes and damage reduction values.

L-Sim simulation engine

ARIS Business Simulator deploys the L-Sim simulation engine from the Lanner Group, a leading provider of simulation software. ARIS Business Simulator is fully integrated with ARIS Business Architect. No additional software is required, no imports or exports, Just start working!

Easy-to-understand diagrams

Stats are presented in easy-to-understand pie charts, bar charts or line graphs. You can save stats or import them into other programs such as ARIS MashZone or Minitab for further analysis.

Support for resource planning & deployment

Need to know who will be needed, when, where and in what quantity? ARIS Business Simulator can help. You can create organizational charts and further break out human resources by the level of individual roles or employees involved in a process.

You can change various attributes of the modeling objects—which is especially useful when specifying time and cost of a function, defining process execution frequencies and deploying different resource allocation strategies.

Simulate EPC or BPMN models

Use Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) or industry standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) models to represent your workflows. With ARIS Business Simulator, you can analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across your EPC or BPMN models to identify bottlenecks. KPIs can include:

• Process throughput times
• Dynamic wait states (bottlenecks)
• Organizational center utilization and cost rates

Use this information to create reports and charts for qualitative or quantitative analyses.