Experts in company procedures create business process models that are the designs for business processes. These business process designers define the steps in business processes and dictate the order of the steps and the conditions under which each step should run.

The products that business process designers use to create business process models are ARIS Connect, ARIS Designer or ARIS Architect, and Software AG Designer. The ARIS products offer a wide range of graphical representation tools that enable the designer to focus on the high-level design of a business process without having to get involved in developing the underlying technology. The designer then passes the model to business process developers to implement in Software AG Designer (model-to-execute).