ARIS Standards and Conventions Manual

1 CSU Enterprise Workflow Project (EWP) Phase 1. ARIS Standards and Conventions Manual Date: 23 June 2014. Version: Software AG. ARIS Modelling Standards and Conventions Manual 17 June 2014. Document Control Document History Date Version Authors Comments/Description of Change 10-Jun-2014 Luke Audie Initial Version for Client review 13-Jun-2014 Luke Audie Changes incorporating review comments 17-Jun-2014 Luke Audie Further Changes based on discussions with CSU. 23-Jun-2014 Luke Audie Further Changes based on CSU feedback received 23-Jun-2014 Bruce Crawford release based on approval of draft.

2 Reviewers Organization Role Name Review Date Software AG Project Manager Raviprasad S Cadambi 06-Jun-2014. Project Manager and BPM. CSU IT Team Lead Bruce Crawford 19/06/2014. CSU Business Business Analyst Sophie Dewar 19/06/2014. CSU IT Team Business Analyst Marian Wolmarans 19/06/2014. CSU IT Team System Administrator Scott Barlow 19/06/2014. Approvers Organization Role Name Date Director, Enterprise CSU IT Team Diane Ireland 25/06/2014. Architecture Geoff Honey CSU Steering Project Sponsor (Executive Director, Division of N/A.)

3 Committee Student Administration). 2014 Software AG. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 57. ARIS Modelling Standards and Conventions Manual 17 June 2014. Table of Contents Introduction 7. Purpose 7. Intended Audience 7. Background 7. Conventions Definition 7. Why Adopt a Common Approach to Conventions ? 8. 1 ARIS Overview 9. ARIS Methodology 9. ARIS Framework / Views 9. 2 ARIS Database Framework 10. Database Naming Conventions 10. Database Folder Structure 11. Artefact Libraries 12. Definition and Occurrence Objects 12. User Access and Authorisation 13.

4 2 ARIS Modelling Design Standards 16. Filter 16. Template 17. Basic ARIS Client settings 18. 3 ARIS Governance 19. Content Release Cycle Management 19. Modelling Governance Process 20. Change Request and Assessment 20. Model Design 21. Audit Trail 21. 4 Model-to-Execute 22. 5 CSU Enterprise Framework 23. Navigation / Entry Models 23. CSU Entry Model 23. Project Entry Model 24. Organisational Modelling 25. Process Modelling 26. Value-added Chain Diagram (Level 1 and 2) 27. 2014 Software AG. All rights reserved. Page 3 of 57. ARIS Modelling Standards and Conventions Manual 17 June 2014.

5 BPMN Collaboration Diagram (Levels 3 5) 28. Function Allocation Diagram (Supporting all levels) 30. Information Modelling 33. Level 1 - IE Data Model (Business Objects) 33. Level 2 - IE Data Model (Entities) 34. Level 3 - eERM Attribute Allocation Diagram (Attributes) 34. Application Modelling 36. Application Domain Model 36. Application Communication Model / Interfaces 37. Application Screens 39. Report Catalogue 42. Project Requirements Modelling 43. Capability and Service Modelling 43. Business Capability Model 43. Business Service Model 44.

6 Common Attributes 48. Common Model Attributes 48. Common Object Attributes 49. 3 Modelling Standards 50. General Modelling Guidelines 50. BPMN Modelling Guidelines 51. Model and Object Naming 51. Model Naming 51. 4 ARIS Reports and Macros 54. Standard Reports and Macros 54. Custom Reports and Macros 55. ARIS Competency Centre (Proposed Future State) 56. 5 Glossary 57. 2014 Software AG. All rights reserved. Page 4 of 57. ARIS Modelling Standards and Conventions Manual 17 June 2014. Table of Figures Figure 1: CSU Process Hierarchy 9.

7 Figure 2: ARIS House representing the Views of an Organisation 9. Figure 3: CSU Enterprise Repository Folder Structure 11. Figure 4: Example Library Folder Structure 12. Figure 5: Occurrence Copy Illustration 13. Figure 6: ARIS Identifiers 13. Figure 7: Example Folder Permissions 14. Figure 8: User Groups Defined in Central User Management 15. Figure 9: Example Attributes Maintained in Standards DB 16. Figure 10: Steps to Update CSU Filter 16. Figure 11: CSU Modelling Template 17. Figure 12: CSU Header Model Location 17. Figure 13: CSU Header 17.

8 Figure 14: Model Status List 19. Figure 15: Object Status List 19. Figure 16: Model Design Governance Process 20. Figure 17: Change Request and Assessment Process 20. Figure 18: Governance Process for Controlling Modelling Activities 21. Figure 19: Changes Stored in Model Attributes 21. Figure 20: Documenting Process Design 21. Figure 21: Model-to-Execute Lifecycle 22. Figure 22: CSU Entry Model 23. Figure 23: Example Organisation Chart 25. Figure 24: CSU Process Hierarchy 26. Figure 25: Example Level 1 Enterprise Map Diagram 27.

9 Figure 26: Example Level 2 Main Process Diagram 27. Figure 27: Example Level 3 BPMN Diagram 28. Figure 28: Example Level 4 / 5 BPMN Diagram 28. Figure 29: BPMN Connection Attributes 30. Figure 30: Example Level 2 4 Process FAD 31. Figure 31: Example Manual Task FAD Diagram 31. 2014 Software AG. All rights reserved. Page 5 of 57. ARIS Modelling Standards and Conventions Manual 17 June 2014. Figure 32: Example Automated Task FAD Diagram 31. Figure 33: Example User Task FAD Diagram 32. Figure 34: Example Level 1 - IE Data Model (Business Objects) Diagram 33.

10 Figure 35: Example Level 2 - IE Data Model (Entities) Diagram 34. Figure 36: Level 3 Example eERM Attribute Allocation Diagram (Attributes) 35. Figure 37: Example Level 1 - Application Domains Diagram 36. Figure 38: Level 2 - Example Application Modules Diagram 37. Figure 39: Example Level 1 - Overall Interface Diagram 38. Figure 40: Example Level 2 - Interface Description Diagram 38. Figure 41: Example Level 1 - Screen Catalogue Diagram 39. Figure 42: Example Level 2 - Screen Design Diagram 40. Figure 43: Example Level 2 - Screen Diagram 41.