With the release of the first version of ARIS Express, IDS Scheer continues to deliver on its promise - as announced in the spring of this year- of making business process management accessible to everyone in the enterprise, not just experts.
The primary objective is to embed the BPM approach throughout the organisation. ARIS Express is aimed at beginners to process modelling and occasional users, as well as universities and students.
The modelling software is being offered as a clear alternative to established corporate drawing tools, such as MS Visio and MS PowerPoint.
ARIS Express can be downloaded free of charge from the ARIS Community site (http://www.ariscommunity.com/aris-express).
ARIS Express is a free tool for getting started with ARIS and is ideally suited for BPM beginners. The simple, innovative modelling interface enables instant results.
The beta test of the product involved up to 1 000 ARIS Community (www.ariscommunity.com) testers and proved highly successful. Users can upload models directly from ARIS Express into the ARIS Community, where the new product and the models created generated considerable interest ahead of the official release.
The release is also important for users of the professional ARIS products, such as ARIS Business Architect and ARIS Business Designer, since it offers a preview of the new user interface and innovative new modelling functions.
Existing customers of professional ARIS products will receive the new functionality via a free service release at the end of 2009. ARIS Express users can upgrade to the professional ARIS Platform products whenever their BPM activities call for more sophisticated functionality, such as multi-user capability, repository support, method configuration, simulation/analysis procedures, etc.
“We're proud to have teamed with the demanding global BPM community to develop a product that is ideally suited for anyone looking to get started with business process modelling. Everyone is welcome to experience ARIS Express and share their experiences within the ARIS Community. ARIS Express from IDS Scheer is the most powerful free BPM tool available,” says Dr Wolfram Jost, Member of the IDS Scheer Executive Board, with responsibility for the worldwide product strategy and development.
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IDS Scheer
IDS Scheer is the market leader in business process management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organisations worldwide. With its unrivalled Aris Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes. Utilising the Aris Value Engineering approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. Thus, companies are able to improve their overall business performance continuously.
About 3 000 employees in over 70 countries serve the company's 7 000 customers. In 2007, IDS Scheer's revenue reached 393.5 million euros. Established in 1984 by Professor August-Wilhelm Scheer, IDS Scheer is listed in the TecDax on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).
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