ARIS Toolset: A software product is born

摘要

The ARIS Toolset represents an internationally successful software system for analyzing, modeling and navigating business processes. It is the result of interlinking the findings of conceptual research, research prototypes, and professional software development. The ARIS Toolset integrates manifold ideas for the description of information systems, repository structures — right up to automated customizing of standard software. These ideas emerged from the work of many people in different research projects. The paper narrates how the lengthy and difficult conceptual work created a foundation of knowledge and experience which in turn produced an “explosion” of numerous prototypes; it also tries to elaborate on the effort it takes to convert prototypes into marketable products.