Structure of the database

Steps | Phases

The database structure for enhanced variant management naturally depends on the conventions that relate to ARIS data in your company. For this reason, the following structure is only intended as an example that must be adapted to your conventions.

Create the groups for the master models and for the individual regions in your database.

In addition, create groups that are intended for the objects to exclude from variant creation, for example, Application systems and Organization. In the exclusion groups, the master owner inserts the objects for which occurrence copies are created instead of variants during variant creation. These objects represent, for example, application systems or organizational elements that occur only once in the company. For exclusion groups, all variant owners get Read privileges via the Variant owners user group, so that the variant owner can reuse these objects in their model variants.

Database structure

User groups in the database

Access privileges in the database

User group/Role

Database groups

Access privileges

User group Master owners

  • Application systems, Organization, and Processes (master)

  • All variant region groups and subgroups

  • Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv)

  • At least Read (r---)

User group Variant owners

Application systems, Organization, and Processes (master)

Read (r---)

Variant owner users

Own variant region groups and subgroups

Read + Write + Delete + Version (rwdv)

To review the roll-out process, the master owners and the variant owners must be assigned the ARIS Aware license privilege. This gives them access to the Variant management dashboard.

  1. Click your name > Administration.

  2. Click User management User management. The list of users is displayed.

  3. Click the user or user group to which you want to assign license privileges. The details of the user or user group are displayed.

  4. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.

  5. Click License privileges.

  6. Enable the Enabled ARIS Designer and Enabled ARIS Aware check boxes.

The user or members of the user group can now model in the database and have access to dashboards.