Tools

In this chapter you learn about the different tools that the AristaFlow BPM Suite has to offer to manage the lifecycle of a business process. On this page you’ll get a first impression. In the following subchapters we’ll go into more detail and explain the basic functions and the GUI of each of the tools. Finally you will meet the tools again in the tutorials.

Process Template Editor

With the Process Template Editor, or short PTE, you model processes, i.e. schemas.

Activity Repository Editor

In the Activity Repository Editor, or short ARE, you define specific or more general activity templates, that can later be dragged from the Activity Repository Browser (ARB), which is part of the PTE, onto process steps and that present the applications. So the AR-Editor and the AR-Browser are two different things.

OrgModel Editor

With the OrgModel Editor you describe the hierarchy in your company or organisation. Later the respective positions are mapped to the activities in the PTE, so the tasks can be sent to the worklists of the right employees.

Clients

There are different kinds of clients, but in principle it is the tool in which the tasks will be carried out eventually. It also holds the worklists, from where activities can be started.

Process Monitor

It’s quite similar to the PTE. You can look at the history of a process instance and make ad-hoc changes.

Server

The server is the heart of the suite, it’s the place where the process instances are running eventually.