Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

The ARIS architecture ( Architecture of Integrated Information Systems ) by August -Wilhelm Scheer (former Institute of computer science at the University of the Saarland ) is to ensure that an operational information system can be fully its requirements.

This regulatory framework is based on a division of the model into descriptive views and levels, which allows a description of each item specially prepared by methods without having to include the entire model. The Methologie serves as a process model for modeling and optimization of business processes. These processes are shown for each description view, starting with the business question to implementation on DV level.

Descriptive views

ARIS is based mainly on his own five- views - Architecture ( ARIS house ). These five views are the organizational, data, performance, function and control view of a process. The classification is to break the complexity of the model in five facets and make it as the process modeling easier.

Each view of the ARIS concept is the model of a business process under a certain aspect again:

• Function view: The processes and the links between them groupings and hierarchical relationships are described in the function view, for example, in a function tree. The terms process and activities are used herein interchangeably. Since functions support goals and are controlled by them, objects of the function view are also assigned.
• Organization overview: All resources (human labor, machinery, hardware), ie all organizational units and their relations, see also Organization
• Data View: All events ( data generating ) and environmental data, such as correspondence, documents, etc., ie all relevant business information objects, see also Entity -Relationship Model
• Performance overview: All services, property and financial services, see the product tree
• Control view: Integration of the previous views in a temporal- logic flow diagram, see also event-driven process chain

Levels of description

Each description view of the ARIS House is divided into three levels of description: requirements definition, data processing concept ( = DV - concept, IV concept) and the implementation level:

Distribution and related work

The ARIS architecture forms the basis of various software products, such as the ARIS Toolset Software AG, which is the owner of ARIS trademarks since the acquisition of IDS Scheer AG. End of 2004 a part of the concept reflected in the graphical process integration of the SAP Exchange Infrastructure.

ARIS is especially in Germany a well-known approach to the description of information system architectures. As a concept, the group management frameworks, however, it is one of over fifty existing market framework for information management. Also on Scheer founded by Institute for Economic computer science in Saarbrücken 2010, the architecture Interoperable Information Systems ( AIOS ) was published. While ARIS describes internal information systems and business processes, AIOS describes how by adapting and loose coupling of information systems enterprise- wide business processes can be realized.

With its " Model -to- Execute" business processes in ARIS to model and technical execution automated in webMethods BPM convict.