Date Posted: February 21, 2008
Update: October 6, 2008 New version installs from update site for better configuration management. A new feature enables the automatic refactoring of imported ARIS events with a single click.
What is XML Import tool from ARIS to IBM WebSphere Business Modeler?
This Eclipse plug-in migrates business process models that were generated using IDS Scheer ARIS Platform products to WebSphere® Business Modeler. WebSphere Business Modeler provides robust modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities for accelerating business process improvement efforts.
This migration enables customers to manage their business life cycle by using the industry-leading WebSphere Business Process Management solution, which was specifically designed for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing applications that have a service-oriented architecture.
The main features of the tool are as follows:- You can import various process models that were created with ARIS platform products, such as Event-Driven Process Chains (EPC), industrial and office process models, process chain diagrams, process project chains, and process instantiation models.
- The control flow of the process models is reconstructed and visible in the diagram.
- Business items, roles, organization units, and locations are created and become visible when you view a model in different modes.
- Coloring schemes that the ARIS user recognizes can be reproduced.
How does it work?
The tool uses the XML export capability of ARIS platform products to feed the WebSphere Business Modeler. The import extracts the control flow of the business process model, which is described by sequences of alternating functions and events in ARIS. A process model that contains tasks and subprocesses connected by a control flow is created in WebSphere Business Modeler. ARIS object types are mapped to WebSphere Business Modeler elements based on a mapping defined and used by the import. The accompanying documentation describes this mapping in more detail.
About the technology author(s)
Thomas Gschwind is a research staff member at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and a lecturer at the university of Zurich. His research interests are business process modeling and software engineering.
Jana Koehler is a research staff member and manager at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. She currently works on technologies for business process management and distributed systems.
