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ARIS

Overview

What is ARIS?

Software AG's Business Process Analysis Platform, ARIS, uses robust architecture and process management / analysis capability to drive integrations with the existing business processes along with information technology and SAP systems.

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Popular Features

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  • Custom reports (6)
    9.8
    98%
  • Standard reports (6)
    9.7
    97%
  • Process designer (6)
    8.2
    82%
  • Dashboards (6)
    7.9
    79%
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Pricing

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ARIS Elements

$100

Cloud
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ARIS Advanced

$200

Cloud
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ARIS Enterprise

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On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

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[12.03.16] Aris Plays Resident Evil 7: The Beginning Hour Demo (Final)

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[Playstation VR] Aris Plays: Resident Evil 7 Kitchen Demo

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ARIS Connect - Simple Modelling Demo

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Pengenalan dan demo Arissto Coffee Machine

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Features

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

9.1
Avg 8.2

Process Engine

Designing and building process models

7.5
Avg 8.4

Collaboration

Collaboration tools allowing BPM experts to collaborate on model design

8.4
Avg 8.2

Content Management Capabilties

Lightweight tool for managing content

9.3
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is ARIS?

ARIS is a solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether documenting the "as-is" state of operations for quality or certification reasons, or designing the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in a transformation program, ARIS establishes a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics across the organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps users to make the most out of processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, and RPA.

The Vendor describes ARIS benefits

  • ARIS is a comprehensive platform for process excellence.
  • Focus on simplicity and ease of use.
  • ARIS covers business & IT architecture from all angles in a structured way, that can be analyzed.
  • Flexible meta model with >100 diagram types out of the box and with custom reporting and analysis capabilities.
  • Customer-driven product development based on best practices.
  • Strong partner ecosystem.
  • Large BPM community (ariscommunity.com).

The vendor states its customers from companies of all sizes and across all industries, boasting more than 10 million users worldwide, improve their processes with ARIS.

ARIS Features

Process Engine Features

  • Supported: Process designer
  • Supported: Process simulation
  • Supported: Business rules engine
  • Supported: SOA support
  • Supported: Support for modeling languages
  • Supported: Form builder

Collaboration Features

  • Supported: Social collaboration tools

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Content Management Capabilties Features

  • Supported: Content management

Additional Features

  • Supported: Customer Journey Mapping
  • Supported: Strategy design
  • Supported: Company and rollout
  • Supported: Model comparison
  • Supported: Process Governance engine (for e.g. approvals, change requrests)
  • Supported: Risk & Compliance Management
  • Supported: Process Mining

ARIS Screenshots

Screenshot of Start page of ARIS Elements.Screenshot of Modeling a BPMN diagram using the web-based ARIS designer.Screenshot of A process landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of A customer journey landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of The steps view of a process model, automatically generated, enriched with multi-media content. An easier way to get process knowledge to employees.Screenshot of A management dashboard in the ARIS portal.

ARIS Video

The ARIS Transformation Suite

ARIS Integrations

  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • SAP Solution Manager
  • SAP EnableNow
  • Custom 3rd party integration via API
  • Alfabet
  • webMethods

ARIS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

Software AG's Business Process Analysis Platform, ARIS, uses robust architecture and process management / analysis capability to drive integrations with the existing business processes along with information technology and SAP systems.

Pega Platform and ADONIS Business Transformation Suite are common alternatives for ARIS.

Reviewers rate Custom reports highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of ARIS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have provided valuable recommendations based on their experiences with ARIS:

  1. Check training material before using the software: It is suggested to review and understand the training material provided with ARIS. This will optimize its usage and help users fully utilize its capabilities.

  2. Consider ARIS over Visio for enhanced capabilities: Users recommend ARIS as a preferred tool for business process modeling and analysis, especially when compared to Visio. They highlight that ARIS offers more robust features and functionalities, making it suitable for automating internal business processes.

  3. Gain thorough knowledge of ARIS's features: Users emphasize the importance of acquiring a comprehensive understanding of ARIS's features. By mastering these capabilities, businesses can effectively address their specific challenges and solve complex business problems.

Overall, users consider ARIS as one of the best tools in the market for process modeling. They stress the significance of proper training, understanding ARIS's extensive feature set, and utilizing correct models and conventions to capture information effectively.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was used to lead the digital transformation of our company, selected and disseminated by digital transformation directorate. The idea was, in our 70 years of organization, almost all processes were knowledge-based, and they were transferred from senior engineer to junior engineer in an oral and experimental way as juniors learned how to carry out business processes they work. The issue was they were dependent on people and were not written or kept in a process map so that anyone could read it. In order to document all of our company's processes and be able to see the ones open to improvement and document them, we ran a program to teach ARIS, disseminate ARIS and make people document all their processes.
  • Process documentation
  • Process mapping
  • Installation of ARIS to users
  • Management of user/architect accounts
In case you have a LOT of processes and know-how of these processes are not documented, thus making your company depend on specific people, ARIS is a good tool to document processes that manage complex relationships between functions, people, IT systems, input and output documents, and scenarios. It is also good for reporting, for example, once you complete documenting all your processes, you can simply get a response to "in what processes is Excel used?" because ARIS will give you just that, and is capable of more.
Process Engine (8)
67.5%
6.8
Process designer
80%
8.0
Process simulation
70%
7.0
Business rules engine
90%
9.0
SOA support
50%
5.0
Process player
60%
6.0
Support for modeling languages
50%
5.0
Form builder
70%
7.0
Model execution
70%
7.0
Collaboration (1)
50%
5.0
Social collaboration tools
50%
5.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Dashboards
70%
7.0
Standard reports
90%
9.0
Custom reports
70%
7.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
90%
9.0
Content management
90%
9.0
  • Documentation of processes made it possible for anyone to see who does what, how and using what systems.
  • Dependency on specific people is eliminated.
ARIS is a much more complex ecosystem than Visio in terms of functionality, being able to create complex relations between people, departments, IT systems, input and output documents, and roles. ARIS handles all these via its library that is defined and created for the whole company. Visio does not have any of those because it does not have such a library. However, this functionality does not come with a great cost of complexity for the user/architect. ARIS is still easy to use just like Visio.
It has good, even complex functionality that is provided by its library and ability to create relations between items, yet it is not hard to use. Anyone can use it in a short time. It provides reporting abilities and good documentation with the availability of exporting options. The only drawback I have seen was user management/login issues.
Kimaya Ghag | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using the ARIS BPA for defining and maintaining repositories for various industries further facilitating projects like portfolio management, enterprise architecture consulting and mainly for SAP and BPM solutioning. It is being used in other geographies too for our organization.
  • BPMN, EPC based modelling of business processes
  • Enterprise Architecture modelling and consulting using support of TOGAF and ArchiMate with extended packages to ARIS BPA
  • Continuously evolving product based on upcoming and current industry trends
  • Supports IOT modelling and also cloud based infrastructure management
  • Defining databases, use of entities and relationship diagrams, define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve.
  • Providing more standard reports and improving on access rights and privileges functionality
  • Based on my experience with the tool it is more suited and user friendly in terms of creating process repositories, architecture frameworks and views.
  • The product does support integration with Alfabet, SAP Solution Manager, WebMethods, Apama etc
  • But these can be supported by attending extensive training provided by Software AG.
Process Engine (8)
62.5%
6.3
Process designer
80%
8.0
Process simulation
80%
8.0
Business rules engine
50%
5.0
SOA support
50%
5.0
Process player
60%
6.0
Support for modeling languages
80%
8.0
Form builder
40%
4.0
Model execution
60%
6.0
Collaboration (1)
70%
7.0
Social collaboration tools
70%
7.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
60%
6.0
Dashboards
70%
7.0
Standard reports
50%
5.0
Custom reports
60%
6.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
70%
7.0
Content management
70%
7.0
  • The technical support is good and response time is good as well.
  • Sometimes continuous upgrade to newer versions makes the customer environment unstable for short duration.

Features like SAP Solman Sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product) and a well defined framework for BPM or any consulting practice across any verticals or domains is useful in a consulting practice, whether it's TOGAF methodology, running a BPM Lifecycle or Six Sigma process analysis.

The vendor continuously brings updated versions to the market with bug fixes from earlier versions and fulfills users'/customer expectations, so they are inline with continuous improvement.

They have the priority request types set already, so in case of a crisis with ARIS (or any major issue) we can reach them by phone (24 hr support or drop them email) ,they are always available to respond.
Yes
Yes
The bug often is fixed in next releases/versions.
Working for multiple clients,we have come across many instances where SoftwareAG, has provided quick support and solutions or in worst case atleast a workaround for problem.
Provided support with ARIS Connect Portal customize build,ARIS implementations to newer versions,ARIS SAP Solmon integrations.
I am a BPM and Enterprise Architect Consultant and hence have been using different BPM and EA tools for consulting practice. Until now I have used Opentext Provision EA,Sparx EA, MS Visio and IBM Blueworks. All of the tools used are good and have their own unique features and capabilities. ARIS BPA is widely used by my current organization for different projects.
  • Sharepoint
  • SAP Solution Manager
  • HP ALM
We had ARIS for SAP Solutions implemented for one of our client.Moving to newer versions can be challenging as we may not have enough root cause data for errors that may be encountered while the integration process.However,we the vendor technical support it is possible.
  • Process Performance manager(ARIS Process Mining)
Yes,vendor support the current integration pack with ARIS Process Mining
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • Javascript widgets
Yes
New releases are only impacted in case if a client has built or done some customize views in there systems.
On regular upgrades the process is smooth most of the times.
There can be chances of downtime extensions in case the infrastructure setup has not been done well as per system requirements guidelines.
  • bug fixes from earlier releases
  • performance improvement
  • better user experience
  • Compatibility with Operating Systems
Yes
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