Vendor Analysis
published on Apr 19, 2023
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes Software AG’s offerings and capabilities in process mining and discovery
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s process understanding platform evaluation profile on Software AG is a comprehensive assessment of Software AG’s process mining capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of process discovery and mining platforms and identifying vendor suitability for process understanding RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the process understanding sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Software AG’s process mining capabilities and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, challenges, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the location of delivery centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Software AG’s task mining/process discovery platform.
Software AG’s ARIS suite offers process discovery and mining, automation, business design and strategy, and risk management. This profile will focus on the process mining capabilities of the ARIS suite, i.e., ARIS Process Mining.
ARIS Process Mining supports operational IT systems and files. Log files (e.g., CSV, Excel) can be uploaded using the web interface. Software AG provides multiple means for clients to connect to systems; its portfolio comprises ~450 connectors.
ARIS Process Mining includes an analysis component and the out-of-the-box app, Process Explorer, to visualize discovered processes. It uses the standard map metaphor where nodes are activities and paths are connections between activities, and it has two sliders to control the visibility of nodes and paths that deviate from the most common variant.
Additional functionality of ARIS Process Mining includes:
- Conformance checking
- Corrective action enablement
- Root cause mining
- Process simulation
- Customizable dashboarding.
Organizations searching for an end-to-end capability of discovery and mining to reengineering and orchestration, bundled and delivered from one vendor, should consider Software AG.