The ARIS Community: 100,000 members collaborate to drive the knowledge based economy

Software AG today announced that the ARIS Community has passed the 100,000 membership mark within 22 months of its launch. The world’s largest Business Process Management (BPM) Community enables new levels of collaboration among individuals, businesses and universities in analyzing, visualizing and sharing business information. Capturing and collaborating on an organization’s intellectual capital is increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantage and a fundamental step in creating the knowledge-based organization and economy.

The ARIS Community enables extreme collaboration and learning between process beginners and experts and provides a comprehensive information exchange platform. Process models can then be used in Software AG’s webMethods BPM Suite for implementation, delivering the full “model to execute” value chain. New collaborative work practices are key to organizations fully and rapidly benefiting from the business opportunities presented by business process technology. 

“The ability to share content within interest groups and collaboratively create, discuss and share business information - to become knowledge driven - is a source of competitive advantage,” said Software AG’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Wolfram Jost. “Extreme collaboration is the only way, we believe, for companies to develop and realize the full potential of business process excellence. The ARIS Community is a major force in enabling this collaboration. We have also seen the power of extreme collaboration across borders in action in the 1 million strong Terracotta open source community for many years, and we are delighted to bring that experience and expertise into our DNA.”

Marco Gerazounis, Senior Vice President, Software AG Middle East, said: “The rapid growth of the ARIS Community creates new layers of value-added benefits for our customers as it provides a unique platform to take advantage of the power of extreme collaboration across borders. In this regard, the ARIS Community will surely add momentum to our initiatives as we open new opportunities for existing and prospective clients in the Middle East to collaborate in new project opportunities.”

Launched in August 2009, the ARIS Community is now the largest Community in the field of Business Process Management. The members’ backgrounds range from BPM beginners to experts, from university to professional businesses, from occasional users to full-time project teams. The ability to model processes (EPC or BPMN 2.0), organizational charts, data models or to brainstorm, analyze and visualize business information to support process workers - without any initial cost - was a clear success factor for the community.

Freely available software such as ARIS Express and ARIS MashZone allows any employee to capture their individual intellectual capital and information assets such as presentations and spreadsheets and use them as input for a process initiative. The combination of ARIS Express and the ARIS Platform allows organizations to directly reuse these assets by the BPM experts.

Members of the ARIS Community can also use Software AG’s full webMethods product suite to implement process models created through ARIS Express. The community provides a step by step introduction utilizing international expertise and free technology to full Business Process Excellence.  

Business Process Analysis is now available to everyone at www.ariscommunity.com/aris-express.