ARIS for Operational Resilience

Organizations worldwide face increasing vulnerabilities due to a growing number of threats and disruptions that are becoming harder to manage. Advanced cyber threats, global crises, and unexpected system failures pose significant risks, threatening not only business continuity but also the very survival of your enterprise. To bolster resilience, it is essential to implement robust measures and controls that not only prevent disruptions but also enable effective adaptation and response when they occur. Your ability to recover from incidents and learn from operational disruptions is paramount. Additionally, navigating new regulations and achieving timely compliance without compromising business performance adds another layer of complexity.

ARIS offers an integrated Process Intelligence and Risk & Compliance Management solution designed to enhance your resilience preparedness. It provides a dynamic and continuous foundation, empowering you to effectively manage regulations and remain agile in the face of evolving challenges.

What if you could?

• Use an integrated solution that provides a holistic view of your operating model (IT, processes, people, data, risk, third parties) and its relation to resilience.
• Manage operational resilience based on business processes, since disruptions impact the way organizations operate.
• Use process mining to measure actual process execution and gain deep insights for swift decision-making.
• Move away from disparate tools like Excel, Visio or PowerPoint for regulatory management and instead use a central tool for managing multiple regulations
• Unify all stakeholders and provide your employees with a single tool for various aspects of managing Operational Resilience.
• Leverage a comprehensive set of capabilities from one tool and a central repository, including documentation, publication, analysis, testing and reporting.
• Reduce the number of incidents, along with associated recovery costs and fines.
• Lower disruption costs through quicker recovery and reduced impact on your organization and customers.

Processes are at the center of your business, connecting everything you do. ARIS offers unmatched transparency, enabling every team member to understand relationships, interdependencies and impacts clearly. This clarity is essential for enhancing operational resilience and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Build a comprehensive process and IT inventory
Easily create a comprehensive process and IT inventory with Business Process Analysis, including all interdependencies and responsibilities. This allows you to define essential processes, important business services, and critical resources, giving you the transparency needed to anticipate and mitigate the impact of incidents or regulatory changes.

Unlock deep insights with Process Mining
Think you know how your processes should run? ARIS Process Mining reveals the truth, showing how your processes actually function. This powerful insight helps identify areas for improvement, optimizing and streamlining your operations.

Proactively assess and manage risks
ARIS enables you to build a comprehensive risk inventory covering operational, financial and compliance risks. Assess and manage risks effectively with seamless integration into your business processes. Reveal potential impacts that can guide you to take targeted action. Additionally, automated workflows streamline issue management, making it easier to document, handle and learn from incidents, improving future risk assessments.

Ensure compliance with seamless regulatory management
Regulatory management starts with a clear understanding of applicable regulations and documenting them in your central repository. Embed compliance requirements into your business processes with ARIS, connecting regulations with your processes, assets and teams, establishing clear guidelines and policies.

Build and maintain an effective internal control system
Compliance is non-negotiable, and with ARIS, you can define and regularly test the effectiveness of your compliance controls. Document results in an audit-proof manner for both internal and external auditors. If controls fall short, initiate improvements using the issue management workflow to ensure your business stays compliant and protected.

Ensure reliable service provider management
service provider management involves coordinating third-party providers to ensure they meet organizational standards and requirements. It is vital for operational resilience, ensuring services are reliable, secure, and maintain continuity during disruptions. ARIS provides end-to-end visibility into third-party activities, helping to identify critical vulnerabilities and understand their impact on operations.

Drive success with reporting and analytics
Continuous improvement requires clear insights. ARIS’s robust reporting and analytics tools allow you to regularly analyze your data, driving ongoing enhancements. Share your success with customized dashboards and generate comprehensive reports for colleagues, management or auditors with ease.