The ARIS Community: driving the knowledge-based economy one process at a time

 · 50,000 members in 12 months: the world’s largest Business Process Management Community publishes its first balance sheet
· The ARIS Community enables organizations to retain and reuse their intellectual capital and assets
· Intellectual capital, including an organization’s ability to continuously improve processes, is increasingly a source of competitive advantage
· ARIS Express, the free BPMN modeling tool, offers Business Process Analysis to everyone at www.ariscommunity.com
· Support for BPMN 2.0 allows community members to use process models for execution in the full webMethods product suite

Darmstadt, Germany, August 17, 2010

Software AG today announced that the ARIS Community has passed the 50,000 membership mark within a year of its launch. The world’s largest Business Process Management (BPM) Community enables individuals, businesses and universities to analyze, visualize and share business information. Capturing and collaborating on an organization’s intellectual capital is increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantage and a fundamental step in creating the knowledge-based organization and economy. The ARIS Community enables collaboration and learning between process beginners and experts, provides a comprehensive information exchange platform and free modeling software allowing immediate process design and analysis. Further access to BPM expertise is provided by the complementary social BPM network: ARISalign. Process models can then be used in Software AG’s webMethods BPM Suite for implementation, delivering the full “model to execute” value chain.