ARIS IT Architect & Designer

Storage administration

With ARIS IT Architect, administrators can define the repository’s structure, where users centrally store their content and which is managed by ARIS Business Server. You even can create multiple logical databases, making the ARIS repository a “repository of repositories.”

Every logical database can store unlimited architecture descriptions, including information on process, people and technology. Organize content by:

• Lines of business or products
• Organizational or technological domains
• Projects
• Architecture states
• Global or local architectures
• Or any combination of these criteria

Access management

Protect access to sensitive stored content by using built-in user groups, users and rights management. Using ARIS IT Architect, an ARIS administrator can define access rights up to the property level.

You also can integrate ARIS with enterprise directories, thanks to LDAP support. This further streamlines user management of your central source of architectural information.

Scripts management

Easily extend your architecture management system, thanks to a fully integrated design, test and run-time JavaScript environment.

Administrators can manage hundreds of predefined server-side scripts and client-side macros while developers can use ARIS IT Architect to create, implement, debug and execute their ARIS automations.

Count on unlimited capabilities for evaluation, reporting and integration, thanks to native usage of Java and JavaScript, the most popular software programming languages.

Metamodel administration

ARIS Platform comes with a predefined metamodel based on our 20+ years of experience in architecture management. The metamodel includes:

• Hundreds of predefined viewpoints and objects with thousands of relationships between them
• Thousands of predefined properties of viewpoints, objects and relationships

Tailor this rich metamodel to your organization or any user. Without any technical skills, you can simplify the metamodel so that people who use Microsoft PowerPoint or Visio need no learning curve to start contributing to the central architecture repository right away.

Easily extend the metamodel by defining any number of new properties, defining new derived viewpoints and renaming any elements of your specific metamodel.

Multi-language support

Operate in different regions around the world? That’s no problem with ARIS. Choose from 150+ languages. Staff can share architecture descriptions while capturing and viewing them in the local language. This helps avoid duplication of content.