Lifecycle Models That ARIS Uses
When ARIS publishes a business process to CentraSite, the business process is represented in the registry by a Process object. ARIS requires business processes (Process objects) to be governed by a lifecycle model. CentraSite includes a predefined lifecycle model called BPM Process Lifecycle for this purpose.
BPM Process Lifecycle Model
The BPM Process Lifecycle model defines the following states and transitions:
State | Has valid transitions to... |
Requested | Implementing, Available, Retired, Rejected |
Implementing | Implemented |
Implemented | Testing |
Testing | Tested |
Tested | Available |
Available | Retired |
Retired | Requested |
Rejected | This is an end state. It has no outgoing transitions. |
Certain operations performed in ARIS trigger policies in CentraSite and these policies change the lifecycle state of a given Process object. When a user deletes a business process in ARIS, a policy in CentraSite automatically switches that process to the Retired state in the registry.
When you install CentraSite, this predefined lifecycle model is disabled (that is, inactive). To use CentraSite with ARIS, you must activate the lifecycle model. For more information, see Activating the Lifecycle Models and Design/Change-Time Policies That ARIS Uses, later in this topic.
Service Lifecycle Model
The Service Lifecycle model defines the following states and transitions:
State | Has valid transitions to... |
Proposed | In Design, Rejected, Retired |
In Design | In Development, Rejected |
In Development | Implemented |
Implemented | In Test |
In Test | Tested, In Development |
Tested | In Production |
In Production | Under Maintenance, Deprecated |
Under Maintenance | In Production |
Deprecated | In Production, Retired |
Retired | This is an end state. It has no outgoing transitions. |
Rejected | This is an end state. It has no outgoing transitions. |
Certain operations performed in ARIS trigger policies in CentraSite, and these policies change the lifecycle state of a given Service object. When a user deletes a service in ARIS, a policy in CentraSite automatically switches that process to the Retired state in the registry.
When you install CentraSite, this predefined lifecycle model is disabled (i.e., inactive). To use CentraSite with ARIS, you must activate the lifecycle model. For more information, see Activating the Lifecycle Models and Design/Change-Time Policies That ARIS Uses, later in this topic.
Customizing the Predefined Lifecycle Model for Process Objects
If the predefined lifecycle models that CentraSite provides does not suit your needs, you can customize them or create a new model for Process objects or Service objects. If you do this, however, you must also update the predefined policies that switch the lifecycle state of objects in the registry. For more information about which policies change the state of an object, see Design/Change-Time Policies That ARIS Uses, later in this topic.