The System attributes model type is primarily designed to perform data export-oriented tasks in ARIS Architect. This model type enables you to arrange entity types, events, technical terms, functions, information carriers, organizational units, and persons in a hierarchy, and specify them uniquely and comprehensively according to their data processing requirements. This data can be typified based on the usual database requirements as primary and foreign keys, as well as descriptive and mandatory fields. To determine the domain types of these data objects, you can assign the System attribute domain model type (see below).

In contrast to ERM attributes, the main feature of system attributes is the representation and management of interface-oriented data. To ensure high flexibility in terms of the contents to be exported, the system attribute objects contain two value fields that can be filled with relevant information.

The following example shows an excerpt from the project header definition of a project defined in ARIS Architect destined for transfer to a project management system.

The System attribute domain model type is used to define the system attribute objects based on the data type; it specifies the domain type (char, int, date, etc.) and field length, for example. It is mainly used to provide information when data is exported to external systems.