AES sets new standards by combining process and document management

The AES product portfolio covers the entire V-development lifecycle of safety-critical hardware and software: from system design and implementation, through integration and qualification, to industrialization in compliance with all certification requirements. In addition, the company provides support for customized, high-performance embedded solutions in the aerospace and defense markets. In order to guarantee customers excellent products and services as well as the best quality, all stakeholders involved needed to be able to access their process information quickly, easily and in a target group-oriented manner. The company also wanted a solution that was easier to use and model, and less expensive than the ARIS® Platform that AES was using.  Furthermore, the company was looking for a solution to efficiently manage all documents, whether they had a direct impact on business operations (e.g., orders, invoices, presentation templates), business process management, quality management, or information technology (e.g., user manuals).

To increase user adoption and reduce costs for licenses and maintenance, AES decided to switch from ARIS® to the BIC Platform. All business processes are now documented and presented in one place, so there is a single, central source. Instead of fragmented processes, the process design is now fully harmonized and integrated. More than 160 AES business processes have been modeled and automatically checked for convention accuracy through built-in capabilities. The platform brings together all stakeholders involved in business process innovation, implementation and operation. GBTEC enables AES to apply a state-of-the-art BPM framework, including a unified tool-based repository, to actively manage the enterprise standards portfolio. The company gains consistent views of the current BPM landscape, allowing it to plan for future changes and see associated analytics. BIC Platform also manages information about processes, documents, applications, interfaces, platforms, and especially their interdependencies.