Web -based "Modeling" with IDS Scheer

My German friends at IDS Scheer seemed to have made a leap forwardwith their modeling environments ARIS Business Architect and ARIS Business Designer (which is the Architect for Dummies), as their product web pages and brochures proudly announce both to be "Web based tools".

Now, claiming that your process architect or process designer tools are web-based goes pretty far if it only means you can view the documented processes via an html browser meine liebe Freunde!  Not even I would go that far (and I've been called back by superiors many times from pushing the envelope on "pimping reality" in marketing speech) to neatly stuff the fact that my "web-based" tool has a client-server architecture all the way at the end of my brochure: Oh well, at least they didn't leave that "kleines" detail out.

So, reality check for ARIS Marketing: ARIS process modeling is a pretty powerful environment with many ready-to-use model types. Usability is a bit "German" though as you need to be an Engineer - and I guess in Germany everyone is as you're a Herr/Frau Doctor after elementary school :) - to use it, hence the version for Dummies ("Dumkopf Version"), but Web-based?? I guess as much web-based as Microsoft PowerPoint with a web server and a decent HTML editor (emacs?).

IDS marketing folk would do good to have a look at Blueprint from Lombardi. A true web-based environment.