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ARIS Express is a free-of-charge modeling tool for business process analysis and management. It supports different modeling notations such as BPMN 2, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC), Organizational charts, process landscapes, whiteboards, etc. ARIS Express was initially developed by IDS Scheer, which was bought by Software AG in December 2010. The tool is provided as freeware on ARIS Community webpage. ==History== ARIS Express was first announced on April 28, 2009 in a press release by IDS Scheer.〔(Enterprise Management Software and Business Solutions Software )〕 The first release was on July 28, 2009 in a public beta test on ARIS Community.〔(ARIS Express beta version released | ARIS BPM Community )〕 Only people, who registered before for the beta test were allowed to download and test this beta version. This closed beta test was followed with another public beta test.〔(ARIS Express beta available to everyone! | ARIS BPM Community )〕 The official release of ARIS Express 1.0 was on September 9, 2009.〔(ARIS Express released | ARIS BPM Community )〕 In this first stable version, features such as Microsoft Visio import were added, which were not present in the version for the public beta test. On February 26, 2010, ARIS Express 2.0 was released.〔(ARIS Express 2.0 online – Upgrade instructions | ARIS BPM Community )〕 Major changes compared to version 1.0 include BPMN 2 support, integrated spellchecking and ARISalign integration. On May 25, 2010, version 2.1 of ARIS Express was released.〔(ARIS Express 2.1 released | ARIS BPM Community )〕 This update improves BPMN 2 support, provides a new online help system for instant feedback, better ARISalign integration and some new symbols in different diagrams. Along with the release, a poster showing the most important modeling concepts supported by ARIS Express was released.〔(ARIS Express poster available | ARIS BPM Community )〕 In addition, an executable setup is provided for Microsoft Windows-based systems. Beginning of July, an update was released as ARIS Express 2.2, providing bug fixes only.〔(ARIS Express 2.2 released! Corrected filter and template available | ARIS BPM Community )〕 ARIS Express version 2.2 is the current stable release. An official press release published mid of August 2010 said there are more than 50,000 downloads of ARIS Express.〔(20100817_Software AG: ARIS Community - tcm:16-74594 Page )〕 On February 2, 2011, version 2.3 of ARIS Express was released.〔(ARIS Express 2.3 released! | ARIS BPM Community )〕 This new version changes the file format of ARIS Express so that models can be shown in an interactive model viewer in ARIS Community.〔(How to embed an ARIS Community model into your page | ARIS BPM Community )〕 The release announcement contained no details about additional features or changes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ARIS Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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