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In a lot of organizations and lines of business, efficiency and productivity not only depend upon well-structured processes and the best possible IT-support, but increasingly rely upon optimizing the communication between participating teams and groups. This article highlights the way in which these organizational interrelations may be analyzed and visualized in order to increase organizational performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Credit Suisse, a global financial services provider, is currently reengineering its securities platform. For this purpose, the individual applications are transferred into a process- and service-oriented IT architecture. It is noteworthy that the process models developed in a team-effort by Business and IT are being employed directly for process-driven order processing. The ‘Auftragsmanager' (order manager), developed within Credit Suisse, carries out the actual controlling and monitoring tasks. Implementing the ARIS Process Performance Manager (ARIS PPM) completes the Business Process Management control cycle. Our motivation for re-engineering is our conviction that efficient Process Management relies on transparent processes throughout the entire Process Management control cycle, including design, the straightforward execution by IT systems, and analysis and optimization. Alongside the account of the conceptual and technical implementation of the control cycle, the benefits for operations will be illustrated in a case study on stock market transaction processing [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What can methodology and system support, which is designed to assist comprehensive and continuous analysis of company performance, look like? This article will demonstrate what requirements lead to an amalgamation of Business Process Management and traditional Business Intelligence approaches and the resultant new opportunities that arise from this. It will highlight the utilization of the ARIS Controlling Platform components that visualize the performance of a company and analyze early indicators relating to success factors. New topics such as RFID and Compliance Management are integrated into this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management applications serve an essential purpose: they are there to optimally support the business processes of a company. Insufficient consideration of this in a software development project would, at best, lead to second class results and, at worst, to failure. This article shows how to integrate classic business process design into a software development project as an elementary component using ARIS UML Designer. The result is a completely model-based and integrated approach for the development of management applications: from business process analysis right through to system design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The US Army is using the ARIS Business Suite and the SAP Solution Manager to manage its implementation of the Single Army Logistics Enterprise — one of the largest SAP ERP system implementations to date. For the US Army, this approach enables the Army's transformation from a supply-based and often stove-piped logistics enterprise into an integrated, streamlined, responsive distribution-based enterprise that delivers ‘the right support to the warfighter in the right place, at the right time, and in the right quantities.' The article describes how the involved projects are utilizing ARIS and SAP Solution Manager for the management of this complex implementation. The development and use of End-to-End scenarios ensures that the implementation is executed via a process-centric methodology rather than from a component-driven approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]