ARIS 9

What’s New

The Power of Social

Use social collaboration to improve your business processes

Social collaboration dramatically changes the way people connect, communicate and collaborate, and it’s impacting the way companies improve their business processes. With the new product ARIS Connect, enterprises can unlock the power of social collaboration for business and IT improvement. Supporting collaboration, anywhere and at any time, ARIS Connect also introduces a new HTML5-based client technology, providing access through smart phones and tablet devices.

Social collaboration brings many different stakeholders with different roles and skills together, each having different expectations and different requirements. ARIS provides every stakeholder with the right tool environment, product perspective, information, data and user interface to address his or her role-specific skills and needs. Stakeholders can adapt the tool to project-specific requirements, from meta models to UI configurations.

With social collaboration, you can:

• Host open discussions about processes, and build and join groups
• View any information in ARIS using your browser
• Visualize processes, applications and any other company-related information
• Watch an activity stream on the network
• Transform process models into easy-to-read Web pages

Built on an agile cloud infrastructure, ARIS Connect scales based on demand, helping you lower your total cost of ownership.

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Process governance
Intense social collaboration needs strong governance. Not everyone should be able to modify every process. We recognized that intense collaboration implies the need for strong process governance. This is why we also extended ARIS Process Governance across the ARIS Platform to make process governance more people-centric.

New ARIS 9 innovations enable you to:

• Control governance processes for Model-to-Execute (M2E) initiatives and IT planning
• Extend control and dashboarding of governance processes
• Use process governance for new cloud-based modeling and publishing

New easy-to-use interfaces

If process improvement is for everyone, then anyone should be able to use the necessary tools. This is why ARIS 9 is easier to learn and use, thanks to a modern UI and clustered functionalities—similar to Microsoft® Office tools and Web browsers. With the new UI enhancements, you can:

• Save time with shorter paths between features, more tips and intuitive handling
• Improve the setup of modeling conventions
• Improve the usage of filter configurations

Different user perspectives and the ability to choose one or more relevant topics—such as Business Process Analysis (BPA), Enterprise Architecture (EA) or Six Sigma®—result in automatic configuration of the UI according to role. This means a reviewer sees different tool capabilities than a process designer. An added bonus: With the new role-based UI, you need to install only one ARIS client.

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