Aranei is a business process information management system. It is specifically designed to facilitate an existing business process by serving information, instead of forcing a client to redesign a process to serve a system.
Key aspects of aranei
| Database-driven and information-model centric system |
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| We employ OpenNovations no code tools to generate a state-of-the-art modern web application |
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| Standard open-source components |
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| Third-party integrations included |
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| No vendor lock-in |
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Replace legacy applications without altering the process or the information structure
How is Aranei different from other off the shelf solutions?
| Aranei | Other solutions |
| Aranei adopts the existing business logic, data model and other functionalities of a system instead of forcing a conversion into the Aranei model. | Most other vendors profit from consultancy and training offered to get new customers to work with their system specific information structure and functionality. |
| Aranei adopts the existing information structure and functionality allowing the client to continue using this information within their current business processes without any change of workflow and process steps. Not forcing to update/change SOPs/work instructions in a QMS (Quality Management System), other than the occasional screenshot. | Most other vendor solutions require a major overhaul of the business processes which require intensive and expensive alterations of process workflows and procedures. |
| OpenNovations Aranei embraces the existing application database and provides a modern state-of-the-art user interface on top of that. Aranei was specifically designed and optimized for this purpose. |
Other systems have their own data structure and functionality. Managing many different data models and functional requirements is not easily implemented if a system has not been designed to do exactly that from the start.
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| OpenNovations adapts to the clients processes and optimizes the Aranei system to suit them. Working with legacy systems is non-trivial, OpenNovations has extensive experience in this field and utilized all this experience to create the Aranei approach. | Other vendors often tie-in business process consultancy into their application product offerings to make client processes align with the implementation of their proprietary systems. |
| Aranei is built on open-source components adhering to open standards. On decommissioning of the app, a backup in an open-source database format always remains. The apps codebase also remains available for the client to continue using and developing upon. | No commercial vendor allows use of their system past license expiry. Most commercial off the shelf database schemas are either intentionally obfuscated or poorly normalized for future use outside of the apps original context. |
Aranei is built on open-source components and open web standards, so your data is always under your control both now and in the future.
How is Aranei different from other low / no code solutions?
| Aranei | Other low-code / no-code solutions |
| Aranei truly clones the data structure and business logic of the existing apps. This allows for a one-on-one comparative validation and data migration verification | Other solutions require a re-implementation or rebuild of functionality and business logic, using proprietary tools, imitating but not exactly adopting the existing structure/model therefore requiring extensive testing and validation. |
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Aranei is data model centric and any UI/app component on top is generated based on that. Whenever a change to the data model or business logic is introduced, a fully automated test suite is generated in the same process, offering a full 100% test coverage and functional validation. Every release is generated, built, and validated in its own versioned container, including all validation and testing documentation and evidence. |
Other solutions offer “on the fly” partial changes and updates to the app itself or to the data model. Changes are usually applied in a separated fashion which require additional manual change management and release control processes. Validation then is performed through incremental changes in a fragmented manner. Consequently, any test suite or validation strategy requires many incremental adaptations as well. This introduces a great risk of smaller or bigger changes being omitted from being included in the test suite. |
| Aranei allows for a full technology and data transfer after contract expiry, allowing any client to continue working with both the data and functionality within the then current Aranei version. This includes a full export/backup of the database content in an open format. | No other low-code or no-code vendor allows to continue using their software, functionality after contract expiry. Data-exports can usually only be made in non-standard formats causing loss of data and/or context within such an export. |
| Aranei makes it possible to detach an Aranei instance from our no-code toolset, and transform it into a fully custom code app, with fully custom UX, integrations and features. The app will consist of fully standard-compliant set of components on all app layers, that can run on Linux-based servers, inside industry-standard containerization technologies. | No other low-code or no-code vendor generates a fully standard-compliant set of components on all app layers, running on Linux based servers inside industry-standard containerization technologies. |