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ARIS

Score8 out of 10

31 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

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

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features ARIS has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Standard reports

    The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Content management

    Content management tool for storing and managing versioning of electronic documents, images, etc.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Model execution

    Ability to execute model and build code without programming skills

    Category average: 7.3

  • Business rules engine

    Business rules engine allows non developers to change business logic in a model

    Category average: 8

  • Process player

    Step-by-step analysis of model to validate business rules

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about ARIS.
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Great tool for BPM as well as Enterprise Architecture modelling assignments

Incentivized
Kimaya GhagView profile
Senior Consultant in Manufacturing at Capgemini (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Pega Platform, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and IBM Business Process Manager

Other Software Used

SAP HANA, Microsoft Visio, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Usability

Market leading process modeling tool

Verified User
Consultant in Professional Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Queries and adhoc analysis
  • Out of the box and custom reports
  • Table based modeling
  • Simulation
  • collaboration feature

Cons

  • Very high priced tool
  • Ability to import Visio should be improved
  • Automatic layout should be improved

Return on Investment

  • High cost tool
  • Advanced process modeling and analysis tool
  • Flexibility to design multiple models

Alternatives Considered

Blueworks Live, Signavio Process Manager, Microsoft Visio and Celonis

Go to Tool for Process design & Modeling

Incentivized
Verified User
Executive in Corporate (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • transformation
  • process design & documentation
  • improvement
  • Coe set up

Cons

  • Has been used in multiple coe set up programs where ARIS has been super handy to use especially its modeling and documentation capability.

Return on Investment

  • Adaptability can be improved.
  • Compatibility view.

Alternatives Considered

Bizagi Digital Business Platform and Signavio Process Manager

Other Software Used

Signavio Process Manager, Bizagi Digital Business Platform

Great tool for process modeling and analyis

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Professional Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Query feature is excellent to extract information in a specific manner.
  • Ability to create custom reports.
  • Collaboration feature is very good.
  • Semantic checks to check validation errors.
  • cloud based central repository.

Cons

  • Better Visio import.
  • Ability to export to Visio and PPT.
  • Very high priced hence limits its usage across our clients.

Return on Investment

  • Increased process efficiencies.
  • Single source of truth.
  • Better process analysis.

Alternatives Considered

Blueworks Live and Signavio Process Manager

Other Software Used

Blueworks Live, Celonis

An enterprise process modeling tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Clean UI
  • Workflows
  • Dashboards

Cons

  • Process Simulation
  • Custom reports
  • Content management

Return on Investment

  • Best processing model tool
  • Visualisation
  • Reports

Other Software Used

Informatica Enterprise Data Preparation, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Visio

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