August-Wilhelm Scheer

Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941) is a German businessman, the founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company. In 2003 he was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Dr. Scheer has developed the ARIS concept, which is the representation of business processes in diagrammatic form so as to provide an unambiguous starting point for the development of computer-based information systems.

External links

• Scheer's institute in Saarbrücken (in German)
• http://herbb.hanscom.af.mil/tbbs/R653/OLVIMS_ARIS_Key_Aug_4.doc (in English)