Interoperability with ARIS

Both ARIS and Alfabet maintain data about business process models and objects in the IT landscape in order to support planning and management capabilities. From the perspective of business process modeling, however, each tool provides unique functionalities.

• Alfabet focuses on modeling the IT landscape that supports the execution of business processes. The business process model is used to map the applications - existing today or potentially existing some time in the future - to the relevant business processes in order to align IT support with business demands and to plan the development and streamlining of the IT landscape in strategy and master planning.
• ARIS provides a wealth of views and methodologies to plan, develop, and enhance business processes on a detailed level. Entities in the IT landscape such as applications are included as modeling elements in order to map functions in the business process model to the application assets.

The available interoperability between the two solutions allows both ARIS and Alfabet to be used in synergy. Data maintained in either ARIS or Alfabet can be re-used in the other application to ease data maintenance and to prevent data inconsistencies between the complementary management tools. The ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability Interface allows for the regular synchronization of data between ARIS and Alfabet.

• Business process models are created and modeled in ARIS and the information about the business process model is transferred to the Alfabet database to be considered in enterprise architecture management.
• The enterprise architecture is managed in Alfabet. Only information about the IT landscape that is relevant for business process planning is transferred to the ARIS databases. In the standard configuration, information about applications as the central objects in the IT infrastructure is transferred to ARIS.

The ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability Interface enables the user to easily traverse the user interfaces of ARIS and Alfabet. For example, when a user plans a business process model in ARIS, thereby leveraging application assets, the full 360° of the relevant application portfolios is just one click away.

If your company is interested in an integration to ARIS, please contact: Alfabet BD GmbH Support 

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