Using ARIS to Manage SAP Interoperability

This paper demonstrates how the ARIS methodology was used to analyze inter-project interoperability and understood, documenting, and analyzing the SMART and SIGMA solutions as the SAP software enables them.

Abstract

SMART and SIGMA are projects that were initiated in 1999 under the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) pilot program. The project boundaries were delineated in 1998, and the software solutions were selected as SAP R/3 in 2000. The project teams are now approaching critical milestones, and it is timely to revisit interoperability issues. While many aspects of the current projects can proceed independently, certain business processes that are shared by the tow projects require additional attention. At the request of the Program Director, we focused on understanding, documenting, and analyzing the SMART and SIGMA solutions as the SAP software enables them. This paper demonstrates how we used the ARIS methodology to analyze inter-project interoperability.