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Designing more efficient processes lets you respond quickly to changing business or market requirements. Without process design, you can lose out on revenue, customers and more. ARIS business process analysis (BPA) solution, ARIS, helps you manage business transformation.

See how you can design, document, analyze—then optimize—your business-critical processes with the ARIS business process analysis platform.

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The Forrester Wave™: Process Intelligence Software, Q3 2025

Explore our ARIS products

ARIS Basic: ARIS Basic is our starter edition with all the essential features for professional business process management.

ARIS Advanced: ARIS Advanced is the next level of business process management. You gain full flexibility of method and access control.

ARIS Enterprise: ARIS Enterprise offers full capabilities for business process management and enterprise-wide transformation.

Business process analysis your way

ARIS is available in different editions to fit the needs of your organization. Looking to start now with minimal investment? ARIS Basic is designed to kickstart your first process improvement project. ARIS Advanced is designed for those who have reached a level of maturity that requires customization and advanced user management. With ARIS Enterprise you can establish a full-scale enterprise BPA program using the complete ARIS capabilities stack.

Find the $8 million opportunity

Make sure you’re investing in the best solution for business transformation. Forrester Consulting just published the Total Economic Impact™ of ARIS study. See the costs and benefits customers can expect from their investment in ARIS.

Gain clear insights into the business

Want greater end-to-end visibility and transparency within your business operations to future-proof business decisions? Create, analyze and manage your entire process model with ARIS to share your business design strategy with everyone in your organization. Understand interdependencies between organizational structures, needed resources, potential risks and IT. A central repository assures you have access to consistent and reusable data.

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Actionable insights for faster decisions

The best decisions are based on reliable and complete data—yet the volume of business data you have changes daily. You need to transform that data into something meaningful for your business. ARIS makes that possible. Mix documented processes with real measurements from dashboard sources for new insights into your processes and their dependencies. Query, analyze and visualize dependencies to make critical decisions faster.

Be customer-centric

Put customers at the heart of your business. With ARIS customer journey mapping, your processes will result in a positive customer experience. See your business from the customer’s point of view and unveil new ways to satisfy customer needs. Identify gaps, issues and opportunities in your processes that affect how customers feel about doing business with you.

Creating process assets is simple

Discover how ARIS simplifies your daily tasks with its intuitive, user-centric design. Smart modeling supports quick and easy process design to increase efficiencies. Keep business information up to date and connect process knowledge with related documents and information.

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Go beyond simply “process intelligence” and start running intelligent processes.