ARIS Connect, Software AG Designer, and ARIS Architect
ARIS Connect is a design tool based on HTML5 technology that allows business process designers to design, and optionally collaborate on the design of, business process models.
Software AG Designer is a Java client that enables business analysts and process owners to design and analyze more complex business process models. Software AG Designer offers greater functionality than ARIS Connect, such as the ability to run analyses that identify bottlenecks in business process.
ARIS Architect is Software AG Designer with administrative features, such as database and functional ARIS application management.
The illustration below shows a business process model in Software AG Designer.
Business process models are stored on a central server, and all ARIS Connect, Software AG Designer, and ARIS Architect users connect to this central server. Configuration settings supplied by ARIS Architect users are also stored on the central server, and are propagated to all ARIS Connect, Software AG Designer, and ARIS Architect clients.
After a business process model has been designed, ARIS users can do the following:
ARIS Connect users can publish the model to the rest of the company.
ARIS Publisher, a set of JavaServer Pages that display in a web browser, can also be used to publish models. Anyone in your company who has viewed a published business process model can ask a business process designer to add, modify, or delete a process step to the model.
ARIS Architect users can convert the business process into Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a graphical representation for specifying business process models and the functionality and behavior of process steps, and then share the model with
Software AG Designer business process developers.
ARIS Architect users can share data models, user interface designs, and service information with
Software AG Designer business process developers.
