Software AG, Vice President ARIS R&D, Saarbrücken, Germany, dirk.maurer@softwareag.com

Dirk Maurer is development manager for the ARIS Design Platform products at Software AG.
He studied electrical engineering and started with the company (formerly IDS Scheer) in 1995 as part of the ARIS development team. Along with ARIS Toolset version 4 he took over first project responsibilities for several core components. Starting in year 2000 Dirk has been in charge for the Java migration of the ARIS products that are sold till this day as ARIS Architect/ARIS Designer. In parallel he took over product management responsibility for the ARIS BPA and EA solutions. In the framework of the acquisition of IDS Scheer by Software AG Dirk became Vice President ARIS R&D. Amongst others he got the lead for an innovation program in order to enable ARIS products for the cloud and provide a new set of fully HTML5 based user interfaces, resulting in the current ARIS Connect products.