ARIS process conformance check

From version 10.2, PPM provides a process conformance check. It checks that real process instances measured in PPM conform to a reference process model created in ARIS. In other words, the ARIS process conformance check enables you to determine whether your business processes actually run as designed.

ARIS is the main repository for modeling target (to-be) processes. These reference processes are modeled in the form of the EPC model type. PPM is being used to monitor 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. To be able to monitor the process flow in PPM according to the reference process, it is necessary to map the modeled function names from ARIS to the PPM function names and import the target EPC together with this mapping into PPM for a dedicated process type.

From version 10.3, it is possible to exclude some ARIS functions from the conformance check. This allows you to exclude functions that are not known in PPM. That means that the target (to-be) process contains functions that must be performed manually and that cannot be processed in PPM. This ensures that the conformance check does not classify too many processes as "not compliant".

The combination of process type, function mapping, target EPC and (optional) ARIS function exclusion list is described here as the process conformance configuration.