Methodological Limitations of Modeling Languages BPMN and ARIS

In this paper we briefly explain the main idea of business process management and its general importance as well as connected necessity of the unity of the technology and business perspectives. Then we discuss those general problems of modeling languages BPMN and ARIS which are important at the above mentioned business-technology border. As a basis for deriving the critical requirements for a language as well as for comparing both languages we use the "MMABP Business Process Meta-Model". This semi-formal specification expresses the basic requirements for the modeling languages from both technical as well as business perspectives and abstracts their non essential features. It allows us to focus on just those features of the given language which are essential from both perspectives. In conclusions we summarize main findings and outline the corresponding primary fields of the future development of standards of this type.