ARIS and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 communicate via HTTP access. Therefore, the requirements must be met in the SAP system. In general, the system no longer requires transport requests. SAP® JCo is only required for ARIS Architect or ARIS Designer if you want to run executables.
The transport request for synchronization and sapjco3.jar on the server side are needed only for data migration. For details, see Migrating SAP projects to SAP® Solution Manager 7.2 solutions contained in the ARIS installation package, ARIS Download Center or Empower.
If you want to provide ARIS for SAP features, you must configure them regardless of the SAP Solution Manager version that you use.
If you want to use ARIS Advanced Architect, you must provide the SAP® Java Connector (sapjco3.jar) to run executables, and provide ARIS Connector for SAP Solutions to allow data transfer between ARIS and SAP systems.