Company characteristics, such as processes, structures, and data can be documented in suitable form for training, presentation, and evaluation purposes of any kind. The most important tasks of company documentation are briefly described below.

ARIS support: Objective diagrams can be used for hierarchical alignment of business objectives and the corresponding success factors.

Identification of the functions involved in value-adding activities of a company is the basis for many corporate decisions.

ARIS support: The company functions involved in the value added can be displayed using the value-added chain diagram. This model illustrates both the sequence of consecutive functions, and superior and subordinate functions.

ARIS support: The structure of a company can be documented in organizational charts illustrating the hierarchy and relationships of organizational units.

ARIS support: A function tree can display an overview of a company's individual functions. The functions are divided into object-oriented, process-oriented, or execution-oriented functions.

ARIS support: Depending on the industry sector or process type, business processes can be recorded in Office process or Industrial process diagrams without any need to resort to methods knowledge. If methods knowledge exists and further utilization of process models by SAP® applications, simulations, workflows, etc. is required, we recommend EPCs for modeling purposes or process chain diagrams (PCDs) for weak point analysis.

Process warehousing is the systematic recording, storage, and maintenance of business process knowledge in a repository.

ARIS support: For modeling process knowledge in decentralized units the use of office and industrial process diagrams is recommended, since operationally active employees usually have no methods expertise. For maintenance and administration in the central model repository, converting the models into EPCs is useful, supported by documents, images, and videos, so that the models can be used in more demanding evaluations, such as simulation or process cost management.