Process conformance

A process conformance check analyzes whether an executed and measured process instance of a production system is compliant with a designed process model in ARIS.

ARIS is the main repository for modeling target (to-be) processes. These reference processes are modeled using the EPC or BPMN model types. PPM is used to discover and analyze executed processes. PPM does this by extracting data from source systems. These source systems may provide function names that differ from the modeled function names in ARIS. In order to monitor the process flow in PPM in line with the reference process, you must map the modeled ARIS function names to the PPM function names and import the target process together with this mapping into PPM.

The ARIS reference model and a mapping of ARIS GUIDs to function names are extracted from ARIS and transferred to PPM. The combination of process type, function mapping, target process, and (optional) ARIS function exclusion list is described here as the process conformance configuration. The process conformance configuration is transferred to PPM and is used to calculate the new conformance measures and dimensions in PPM. The process conformance is calculated when the process data is imported into PPM.

The following figure shows the individual steps for performing a process conformance analysis.

ARIS PPM integration