At CeBit, IDS Prof. Scheer Introduces Workflow Component, Other Improvements, for ARIS-Toolset Software.HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1996--At the CeBIT trade show this week, IDS Prof. Scheer will announce a newly enhanced version of its successful ARIS-Toolset, the company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. . ARIS-Toolset is a family of integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. tools for business-process reengineering and change management. The new ARIS-Toolset Version 3.1 is easier to use and contains modules that expand the effectiveness of the product. One of the most important new modules is ARISatWORK, a fully integrated workflow component for client/server configurations. The module provides the means to uncover structural weaknesses in the organization. It also allows organizations to compare their own business processes to best-practices models contained in the ARIS-Toolset. "With ARISatWORK, ARIS-Toolset users now have access to a powerful tool that can coordinate all aspects of an enterprise's processes," said Dr. Alexander Pocsay, managing director of IDS Prof. Scheer. Other new features in Version 3.1 of ARIS-Toolset include consistency checks, layout and model generation, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 reporting and extended evaluation capacities. More than 1,000 organizations -- such as Mercedes Benz, Amoco, AKZO-Nobel, Dell Computer, Monsanto, Microsoft, Bayer, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida , Volkswagen, Lufthansa, Hoffman LaRoche, Georgia Pacific, Anheuser Busch, PEMEX Pemex officially Petróleos Mexicanos Mexico's state-owned oil company. In 1938 Pres. Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized 17 foreign oil companies to create Pemex, the largest Latin American petroleum company and a major world exporter of fossil fuel. , and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) -- have used ARIS-Toolset to improve processes or implement enterprise-management systems, such as SAP's R/2 and R/3. Since it was introduced a few years ago, more than 5,000 ARIS-Toolset user licenses have been sold around the world. While its initial market acceptance was in the manufacturing sector, today banks, financial services firms, public utilities, hospitals and trading firms are showing increased interest in ARIS ARIS American Religious Identification Survey ARIS Architecture of Integrated Information Systems ARIS Active Rack Isolation System ARIS Aggregate Route-based IP Switching ARIS Agentia Romana pentru Investitii Straine . "The growing use of ARIS in the service sector shows the enormous efforts that are being made to increase the efficiency in these organizations," said Dr. Pocsay. "ARIS is the right tool to uncover areas of improvement for these types of customers." ARIS-Toolset has also enjoyed increased success in countries outside of Europe. IDS Inc., the IDS Prof. Scheer's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. subsidiary responsible for all non-European business, has sold during the past 13 months nearly 1,000 licenses in North and South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. According to Clemens Kretschmer, vice president of non-European sales and marketing, "We are enjoying excellent growth in the markets outside of Europe. We've been forging new partnerships with such companies as IBM, Coopers & Lybrand, Ernst and Young, and AXXIS, a major Mexican consulting company." IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , headquartered in Saarbruecken, Germany. It was founded in 1985 by Professor Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer, an authority on business-process improvement. IDS Inc., the subsidiary, is located at the Chadds Ford Business Campus, Brandywine 2 Building, Suite 307, Chadds Ford, PA 19317; Tel: 610-558-7600. On the World Wide Web, IDS can be found at "http://www.ids-scheer.com". Attention North American editors attending CeBIT: If you wish to meet with executives at IDS Prof. Scheer, contact: Ms. Heidrun Haug hH - Redaktion Fuellmaurerstrasse 10 D-72072 Tuebingen Germany Tel. 011-49 7071 975951 Fax: 011-49 7071 72446. CONTACT: IDS Prof. Scheer Clemens Kretschmer 610-558-7600 or Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Lisa Figlioli 203-625-0082 |
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