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Architecture of integrated information systems


ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) is an approach to enterprise modeling. It offers methods for analyzing processes and taking a holistic view of process design, management, work flow, and application processing. The ARIS approach provides a generic methodological framework and a business process modeling tool.

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ARIS started as the academic research of August-Wilhelm Scheer in the 1990s. It has an industrial background and has sold very well globally.

ARIS techniques

ARIS uses a modeling language known as Event-driven Process Chains (EPC), which is an important aspect of the ARIS-model. EPC is central to ARIS and connects all other views, as well as describing the dynamics of the business process.

Recent versions of the ARIS Toolset also support the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) in order to model business processes.

ARIS varies four main perspectives of techniques (see image):

  • Organizational view
  • Data view
  • Control view
  • Functional view

    • It differs from swim lane in that it is process-oriented whilst swim lanes are function-oriented. On the other hand, based on the conceptual description, ARIS can model and structure Business Process Models.

    Furthermore, ARIS has been developed to implement business models in information systems.

    Applications

    As one of the Enterprise Modeling methods, ARIS provides four different aspects of applications:

  • The ARIS concept
  • is the architecture for describing business processes.
  • provides modelling methods, the meta structures of which are comprised in information models.
  • is the foundation for the ARIS Toolset software system for the support of modelling.
  • The ARIS house of Business Engineering (HOBE) represents a concept for comprehensive computer-aided Business Process Management.

    • References

    Architecture of Integrated Information Systems Wikipedia
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