ARIS Community: 10 000 members in five months

Issued by MicroZone PR for CPI
Saarbruecken, 26 Oct 2009

Ten thousand members and 8 000 downloads of ARIS Express: the new online platform from IDS Scheer, for everyone who wants to know more about business process management (BPM), is proving a worldwide success!

Once a niche topic, BPM now plays an integral part in successful corporate management. Although many user and expert groups have sprouted up around the globe, what was missing was a platform for sharing experiences and discovering new options. Having attracted 10 000 members in just five months, ARIS Community is clearly what both professionals and beginners were looking for.

The new ARIS Community helps BPM experts and newcomers to expand and update their process knowledge, plus enabling them to establish personal links with other BPM contacts. It is currently a meeting point for 20 different groups, including an international university group and national ARIS user groups, for example from France, Portugal, South Africa and Spain.

The ARIS Online Academy provides all BPM beginners with free e-learning courses, while experienced BPM users can find out more about deploying ARIS Platform products in BPM projects. The e-learning content has already been accessed by more than 3 000 course participants.

Less experienced BPM users can discover the fast benefits of ARIS Express, the free beginner's version of ARIS, by downloading it from ARIS Community. A recently launched competition for the most useful and most humorous models created with ARIS Express is another incentive to actively participate in the ARIS Community.

To go to the ARIS Community, visit: www.ariscommunity.com.

“BPM experts and users urgently needed their own platform for sharing expertise. The diverse options of exchanging information as well as process models offered by ARIS Community clearly meet the requirements of a wide range of BPM target groups. At the same time, strict data protection rules ensure that users are not bombarded with spam and advertising,” explains Wolfram Jost, Member of the Executive Board with responsibility for the worldwide Product Strategy and Development of IDS Scheer.

IDS Scheer

IDS Scheer is the market leader in business process management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organisations worldwide. With its unrivalled ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes, allowing companies to continuously improve their overall business performance. Utilising the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. Approximately 3 000 employees in over 70 countries serve the company's 7 500 customers. In 2008, IDS Scheer's revenue reached 399.1 million euros. Established in 1984 by Prof August-Wilhelm Scheer, IDS Scheer is listed in the TecDAX on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Germany).

CPI

Collaborative Process Integration (CPI) is a South African-based company established in 2001 and appointed premium value-added national reseller of the ARIS range of business process management product.

ARIS is a trademark product of IDS Scheer, an internationally recognised leading provider of BPM software.

CPI adopts a collaborative approach to partnership development. This approach ensures that tangible benefit of BPM solutions and enterprise architecture is transferred to its expanding client base and a growing target market.

This approach has also helped the company to secure a formidable alliance with IDS Scheer, including training, support and maintenance for ARIS to the southern Africa market.

Specialists at CPI continue to extract maximum benefit from current and emerging industry trends and apply them to an extensive portfolio of ARIS platforms to suit all levels of business development.

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