OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 February 2009 was announced, that hypermarket chain Lenta migrated from MS Visio to ARIS to document its business-processes

To document business processes Lenta previously used MS Word, Excel and Visio instead of special tools. These tools are not based on process-oriented methodology whereas ARIS platform is known as a best tool in the world for business-process analysis. ARIS provides following functionalities: semantic analysis of business-processes, dynamic modeling, analysis of information systems used, process cost calculation, and other types of analyses. ARIS products support full lifecycle of business-process management from strategy and modeling till implementation and controlling.

Vera Yakovleva, Lenta employee of corporate management system (CMS): “We have considered proposals of various vendors and came up to conclusion ARIS contains all the tools we need. Before use of ARIS we described our processes in MS Excel, Word and Visio. In the beginning we used these products without problems, but we faced low functional possibilities of these products when volume of modeling increased. After deep consideration of business-processes management we need it became obvious we needed unified methodology, single repository for business-process models, and tools for process analysis and effectiveness assessments. Possibility to create our own user scripts was also very important”.

Employees of corporate management system (CMS) of hypermarket network Lenta were trained in ARIS Academy of IDS Scheer. Now they already transferred into ARIS models of business-processes and organizational structures developed earlier. Currently they work on goal tree of the company with help of ARIS BSC. During ARIS project performed with IDS Scheer consultants “Modeling Conventions” document was prepared. The document contains all methodological rules for description of Lenta business areas, allowed model types, objects and object links. “Documentation of company activities on ARIS platform has following advantages: systematic, unified, homogeneous description, its relative simplicity and adaptation for changes, possibility of automated analysis of the description, etc.,” – said Andrey Koptelov, department director for information technologies development and implementation of IDS Scheer Russia and CIS countries, - “But a company can really use these advantages only if it follows regulations of “Modeling Conventions” document – then ARIS power will be used to 100%, and reach functional possibilities of ARIS will provide desirable effect on business”.

It is planned IDS Scheer consultants will audit models developed by Lenta employees in order to render consulting services to these employees related to development of Balanced ScoreCard system for a company.