ARIS — Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

Abstract

The last couple of years have been marked by technology, not by business. Today, companies are realizing that the use of IT must be tackled from a more process- oriented point of view. This new approach is represented by re-engineering and the transformation of business processes. In addition, strategic and technical ques- tions cannot be dealt with separately. In this article, a framework will be presented that encompasses the whole life-cycle, from business process design to informa- tion technology (IT) deployment, leading to a completely new process-oriented software concept. At the same time, the architecture closes the gap between busi- ness process modeling and IT-applications.