Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

ARIS (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) is a method for analyzing processes and taking a holistic view of process design, management, workflow, and application processes.

As one of the Enterprise Modeling methods, “Architecture of Integrated Information Systems” (ARIS) provides four different aspects of applications:


 * The ARIS concept is the architecture for describing business processes.
 * The ARIS concept provides modeling methods, the meta structures of which are comprised in information models.
 * The ARIS concept is the foundation for the ARIS Toolset software system for the support of modeling.
 * The ARIS house of Business Engineering (HOBE) represents a concept for comprehensive computer-aided Business Process Management.

=ARIS Techniques= ARIS varies three main perspectives of techniques. Firstly, in modeling enterprise models, ARIS uses a modeling language known as Event-driven Process Chains(EPC), which is an important aspect of the ARIS-model. EPC is the center of the House of ARIS and connects all other views, as well as describing the dynamics of the business process.

On the other hand, based on the conceptual description, ARIS can model and structure Business Process Model. Furthermore, ARIS House has been developed to implement business models in information system.

Scientific papers
August-Wilhelm Scheer, Markus Nüttgens ‘ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management’ Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität des Saarlandes, Im Stadtwald Geb. 14.1, D-66123 Saarbrücken {scheer, nuettgens}@iwi.uni-sb.de

Henk Jonkers, Marc Lankhorst, René van Buuren, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Marcello Bonsangue,Leendert van der Torre(2004) ‘Concepts for Modeling Enterprise Architectures’ Telematica Instituut, P.O. Box 589, 7500 AN Enschede, the Netherlands Phone: +31 53 4850485, fax: +31 53 4850400, e-mail: Henk.Jonkers@telin.nl University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science, Leiden, the Netherlands CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ulrich Frank (2002) ‘Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) Conceptual Framework and Modeling Languages’ Universität Koblenz-Landau Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany E-mail: ulrich.frank@uni-koblenz.de

Thomas R. Gulledge and Rainer A. Sommer ‘Process Coupling in Business Process Engineering’ George Mason University, USA Knowledge and Process Management Volume 6 Number 3 pp 158–165 (1999)

August-Wilhelm Scheer (1996) ‘ARIS-Toolset:Von Forschungs-Prototypen zum Produkt’ Informatik-Spektrum 19: 71–78 (1996) © Springer-Verlag 1996

Reference websites

 * http://www.isgnovasoft.com/business_process_consulting_IDS_Scheer_ARIS.asp
 * http://www.ids-scheer.com/
 * http://www.aris.com/sixcms/list.php?page=subnavigation&article_id=23254&_cat=23253
 * http://www.pera.net/Methodologies/ARIS/ARIS_Paper_by_Ted_Williams.html

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