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Usage of variants Creating variants are general in case of being Enterprise Standard Workflows and localised versions of them. The main benefit of usage variants is the built-in comparison capability. In general its a useful way of handling local differences but, there are some limitations: Under the hood ARIS can create a definition and occurrence copies also from the objects in the master process. It can be adjusted in detail but once a definition copy has been created from an object the object in master and in variants become totally different. The process of creating variants should be in control of a well experienced ARIS expert to avoid unintended incidents. In case of using definition copies of some objects and the separation of the the master and the variants processes are not proper it can happen, that an inexperienced modeller unwittingly use the wrong object in modelling. In some cases the master process also could change. In that case the maintenance of existing variants can be a big issue. If its possible the best way to delete all the existing variants and create variants from the new master, and depict the local differences in the newly created variant. For perfect usage of variant copies in localisation modellers there has to be a deeper understanding of ARIS storage and possibilities of the maintenance. (Further lifetime of variants). At subsidiaries (especially at MT) ARIS modellers used ARIS only for visualisation of processes, like in Visio. As we think for optimal results, solid training sessions are necessary at subsidiaries.
and some recommendations: A proper prefix methodology can help to identify models immediately e. g. M_ for masters and V_ for variants and so on. All library objects should be occurrence copies to avoid replacement of the originales in case of a back-merge. Events should be a definition copies, and functions should be occurrence copies in first. If a function really differs it can be replaced with a definition copy. If we want to use simulations with the master and variants model as its better to use definition copies of functions as well. Always create model variants with wizard rather than simply easy copy and paste. In the wizard you can select properly which objects do you want to copy as definition and which as occurrence.