This easy-to-follow advanced text is a must have guide and reference for all users who want to increase their ARIS skills, and for those who need to undertake advanced model and database management. It contains tips, techniques and short cuts.

Before You Start Modelling.- Process Capture and Modelling.- The Matrix Editor.- Find and Query.- Model Generation.- Modelling in Rows and Columns.- Modelling Process Variants.- ARIS Evaluations.- Database Administration.- User Administration.- Configuring the ARIS Method.- The Symbol Editor.- Method Filters and Evaluation Filters.- Defining and Using Templates.- Administration Reports.- Model Verification.

ARIS is ranked as the leading Business Process Modelling tool in the Gartner Quadrant for Business Process Analysis and Optimization. The ARIS Design Platform is being used as a business process management (BPM) tool for projects in BPM, quality management, business analysis and design, software development, implementation of service-oriented architectures and so forth. Following on from Rob Davis’ successful introductory text, ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM, this new book covers in detail some of the more advanced concepts of using ARIS Business Architect in the new ARIS 7 Design Platform. Written in a reader-friendly style, it contains detailed explanations of key concepts combined with numerous examples, hints and tips gained from many years of practical experience of using ARIS. Topics covered include: • The Matrix Editor • Find and Query • Model Generation • Method Filters and Method Changes • Templates and Fonts • Reports, Semantic Checks and Macros • Database Administration • The Symbol Editor • User Management This easy-to-follow advanced text is a must-have guide and reference for all users who want to increase their ARIS skills, and for those who need to undertake advanced model and database management. More information can be found at www.rob-davis.co.uk. Rob Davis works for British Telecommunications Plc. He has practical knowledge of working with ARIS in industry for over ten years and has already authored two very successful texts on ARIS - Business Process Modelling with ARIS: A Practical Guide and ARIS Design Platform: Getting Started with BPM.

This practical ‘How-to’ guide contains tips, techniques and short cuts gained from practical experience, to show how to use ARIS as a powerful tool for process modelling Covers in detail the more advanced concepts of using ARIS Business Architect in the new ARIS 7 Design Platform for all users who want to increase their ARIS skills Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras