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ARIS Business Architect for SAP

Implementing and Optimizing Business Process-Based SAP Solutions

To implement their corporate strategy and business requirements, companies need a fast and efficient way of mapping business processes and new business concepts to the SAP environment. Developing a seamless value chain and designing the corresponding business processes is also a key requirement for adopting SAP’s enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA).

ARIS Business Architect for SAP and the ARIS Value Engineering for SAP method provide procedure models, methods, technologies, and reference content that make the flexible enterprise a reality. These are the first of many practical customer benefits to be generated from the strategic development cooperation between SAP and IDS Scheer.

ARIS Business Architect for SAP enables enterprises to define business management requirements from a process perspective. Requirements are mapped using business process models and can be enriched with all the necessary additional information and subjected to analysis. The bidirectional interface to SAP Solution Manager enables the models to be constructed on the basis of SAP reference content for a process-based SAP solution. They can be seamlessly implemented in the SAP Solution Manager.

These process models therefore represent an important aid to making business decisions, while also ensuring that the required processes can be implemented in the SAP system. A special BPEL interface to SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) supports end-to-end integration of existing IT systems.

Your benefits:

  • Process-oriented and model-based requirements analysis and resulting business blueprint plus alignment of business processes with the SAP IT architecture
  • Comparison and alignment of all end-to-end business processes with SAP reference processes using ARIS, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP XI
  • Integrated ARIS method ensures transparent documentation and communication of the processes to be implemented
  • End-to-end process-based tests
  • Training and SAP courses can leverage the requirements defined in ARIS
  • Reuse of SAP process models for other application scenarios (IT architecture management, SOA projects, risk management projects, compliance projects, etc.)
  • Integration of SAP Solution Manager and SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI)

 

ARIS SmartPath

For Small and Medium Enterprises and Mid-Market companies, IDS Scheer offers ARIS SmartPath, a bundled solution of SAP Business All-in-One software with industry content, best practice ARIS reference models and consulting services.

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SAP Solution Composer scenarios
SAP Solution Composer scenarios

Use of SAP reference content during the blueprinting phase

Analysis of SAP scenarios, processes, and process details during the strategy phase, based on the process content of SAP Solution Composer (incl. industry business maps, application maps, configuration processes and process steps, key performance indicators).

Blueprinting phase
Blueprinting phase

Blueprinting phase

While the target processes are being defined, the product content and component-independent process content of SAP Solution Composer can be used in ARIS Business Architect for SAP, as can the configuration processes of SAP Solution Manager.

End-to-end process
End-to-end process

Linking of process and configuration content

The process content provided by SAP Solution Manager is imported into ARIS Business Architect for SAP, where it is transformed into complete end-to-end processes that reflect the business management view. Content that relates purely to configuration is enhanced to include business information, such as, manual operations and their description, executing roles, and data and information used. This process-based requirements analysis is the starting point for the subsequent blueprint.

SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager

Synchronization between ARIS Business Architect for SAP and SAP Solution Manager

Synchronizing ARIS Business Architect for SAP with SAP Solution Manager ensures that all the necessary process information is available for the implementation or upgrade project. Scenarios, processes, and process steps, along with the associated SAP transactions and SAP system landscape, can be imported into ARIS Business Architect for SAP from SAP Solution Manager. It is also possible to reuse the relevant organizational and master data, as well as all documentation in ARIS Business Architect for SAP.

Wizard for SAP-compliant process modeling
Wizard for SAP-compliant process modeling

Wizard-supported creation of custom SAP scenarios

A special wizard is available in ARIS Business Architect for SAP to guide users through the creation of SAP-based process models. This makes it easy to get started with SAP-compliant process modeling and ensures adherence to specific conventions.

Transaction calls from ARIS Business Architect for SAP
Transaction calls from ARIS Business Architect for SAP

Transferring the blueprint documentation into the process structure

The business process models can be used in SAP training courses for all process participants. The ability to initiate transactions and access blueprint documents directly from ARIS gives users a process-based insight into the SAP system. The ARIS process models can also be integrated into the SAP F1 help system.

Enterprise services in ARIS Business Architect for SAP
Enterprise services in ARIS Business Architect for SAP
Since SAP communicates existing and future enterprise services using SAP Solution Composer, this information can be compared with the process models in ARIS Business Architect for SAP. The enterprise services to be implemented can then be analyzed on the basis of the process architecture. ARIS Business Architect for SAP therefore provides a decision-making aid that is rooted in business reality, helping organizations to choose the correct enterprise services.