EPC in ARIS

Cheat sheet

General Information Value-Added Chain Diagram (VACD) Extend Elements/Satellites Data & Risks
The Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is a The extended EPC elements allow you to detail An information carrier stores
Marketing & sales
modeling notation to describe business processes. the pure procedural description of your knowledge/data.
Pre-sales Sales order
It integrates all relevant business perspectives and Sales
planning
manage- manage- Billing business process by integrating data, risks,
is embedded in the overall process landscape.
ment ment
resources, organizational elements etc. The A cluster is a collection of related
corresponding objects are called satellites. entity types and can be used to
While Value-added Chain Diagrams (VACD) Sales order management
represent business objects.
provide an overview on the functional areas of There are two modeling alternatives:
Sales order
Customer Quotation Contract
processing
an organization, EPCs are used to detail them qualification processing processing
(as-is) 1. Model the satellites directly in the EPC and A KPI instance indicates the
on a procedural level. assign them to the function to get all degree of goal accomplishment.
information at a glance.
Core Elements Event-driven Process Cain (EPC) A risk represents the possible
2. Move the satellites to a Function
The EPC core elements allow you to model the danger of a defined process
Contract Allocation Diagram (FAD) to reduce the
procedural sequence of functions within the processing objective not being achieved.
visual complexity of the EPC.
scope of individual business processes.
A business policy is a directive,
Event & Functions Function Allocation Diagram (FAD) whose purpose is to govern or
An event describes a state that controls or Contract Check sales guide the enterprise.
finalized Local dealer- New vehicle
contract and
influences the progression of the process. ship sales rep
documents
sales contract
A requirement is a documented
They trigger functions and are the results of
need of what a specific
functions. Check sales
contract and
Organization application system, product or
A function is a task or activity performed to documents
service should be or do.
deliver process outputs and support business The organizational unit is a business
objectives. department, that is involved in a task. Enterprise Architecture
Connectors Sales contract Sales contract Positions are the smallest The application system type is he
/documentation
complete
/documentation
deficient
organizational unit in a company and a software system that is used to
Connectors are used to split and join the control are assigned to a single person. support the execution of a function.
flow. Split connectors have one incoming and Regional sales
several outgoing connections. Vice versa for join administrator
Correct
A role typifies individual persons with An application system
connectors. Local dealer-
documentation identical properties such as privileges represents a concrete,
ship sales rep or responsibilities. identifiable application system
XOR (exclusive or) considers exactly one path.
Documentation
Group of people working together. within a company.
corrected
AND considers all paths. A software robot is an
RACI/RASCI Connections
application system type that
The RA(S)CI method enables you to simply
OR considers at least one path. carries out a function autonomously
describe how organizational elements participate
PRO-ORDER
New vehicle (RPA).*
Create sales sales order in completing tasks in business processes. The
Linking & Hierarchy Regional sales
order
Invalid order EPC offers different connection types to connect An attended software robot is
administrator processing
Process interfaces link EPCs on the same organizational objects and functions: a software robot (RPA) that
process hierarchy level and navigate in a Local dealer-
Inform client
New vehicle
carries out R ESPONSIBLE requires human intervention.*
about order
ship sales rep reservation
horizontal fashion. status decides on
A CCOUNTABLE An IoT object represents a type
Lower-level EPCs can be assigned to contributes to
S UPPORTIVE of things that are elements of IoT
functions to describe them on a more and have similar properties.
has consulting role in
C ONSULTED
Customer
informed
detailed level. This provides a deeper process
must be informed about
hierarchy level (vertical link). I NFORMED * Available with ARIS 10 SR8 (April 2019)
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