ARIS Express is a free-of-charge modeling tool for business process analysis and management.

ARIS Express was initially developed by IDS Scheer, which was bought by Software AG in December 2010.

ARIS Express is notable - having been mentioned in research published by Schumm,[1] Garcia,[2] Krumnow [3] and Greenwood [4] amongst others.

[10] 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.

Beginning of July, an update was released as ARIS Express 2.2, providing bug fixes only.

An official press release published mid of August 2010 said there are more than 50,000 downloads of ARIS Express.

Besides common features such as creating new diagrams, saving them as files or adding objects to the modeling canvas, ARIS Express also provides some noteworthy features, which can't be found in most comparable modeling tools.

The professional tools of ARIS Platform are able to import diagrams stored in the ADF format.

Besides export formats, it is also possible to use the clipboard to copy and paste an ARIS Express diagram into typical office suites such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

On first startup, the user must enter a valid ARIS Community account to register the application.

ARIS Express uses a mechanism provided by Java Web Start to automatically update the application as soon as a new version becomes available and the user is connected to the Internet during startup.