Linking business process and UML modeling
If you want to develop an IT system that provides optimum support for your company's business processes, it is useful to start with an analysis of the business processes, in order to derive the corresponding requirements for the IT system. ARIS provides optimum tools for doing this, as it provides integrated business process and UML modeling in a single repository and enables you to link business process and UML content with each other.
You have two fundamental ways of linking business processes and UML:
Assignment of UML diagrams to business process objects
Reusing business process objects in UML as UML elements
For both linking methods, as the user you have a free choice of which specific business process and UML types you want to link to one another. There are no rigid specifications for this in ARIS Method.
You can navigate between the ARIS UML Designer and ARIS Architect/ Designer applications with no problems. Double-clicking an ARIS model in the Explorer tree in ARIS UML Designer automatically launches ARIS Architect or ARIS Designer (if not already running) and opens the ARIS model. Conversely, an assigned UML diagram can be opened in ARIS UML Designer by double-clicking the corresponding assignment symbol in an ARIS model in ARIS Architect/Designer.
The two types of link and the various navigation options are described in more detail below.