Wanted: ARIS/Solution Manager Benefits!

Hi
I am currently working on an analysis that has to lead to a recommendation of a specific tool to handle business descriptions etc.
The corporation I am doing this research for is in a full blow wall to wall SAP transition. I am therefore very interesting to get to know exactly what benefits there is in the ARIS / Solution Manager integration. Can anybody in this community help with this - the more specific you kan be the better!
Kind Regards
Simon

Dear,
Implementation and Optimization of Business Process-Based SAP Solutions.
To implement their corporate strategy and business requirements, companies need a fast and efficient way of mapping business processes and new business concepts to the SAP environment. Developing and designing a seamless value chain in terms of Business Processes Management is also a key requirement for adopting SAPu2019s service-oriented architecture (SOA).
ARIS Business Architect for SAP and the ARIS Value Engineering for SAP method provide procedure models, methods, technologies, and reference content that make the flexible enterprise a reality. These are the first of many practical customer benefits to be generated from the strategic development cooperation between SAP and IDS Scheer.
In SAP implementation or upgrade projects ARIS Business Architect for SAP enables enterprises to define business management requirements from a process perspective. Requirements are mapped using business process models and can be enriched with all the necessary additional information and subjected to analysis. The bidirectional interface to SAP Solution Manager enables the models to be constructed on the basis of SAP reference content for a process-based SAP solution. They can be seamlessly implemented in the SAP Solution Manager. A special BPEL interface to SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NW PI) supports end-to-end integration of existing IT systems.
These process models therefore represent an important aid to making business decisions, while also ensuring that the required processes can be implemented in the SAP system.
Your benefits:
Process-oriented and model-based requirements analysis and resulting business blueprint plus alignment of business processes with the SAP IT architecture.
Comparison and alignment of all end-to-end business processes with SAP reference processes using ARIS, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration.
Integrated ARIS method ensures transparent documentation and communication of the processes to be implemented
End-to-end process-based tests.
http://www.soltius.com/Soltius_ARIS_BPM.pdf
http://www.soltius.com/Soltius_ARIS_BPM.pdf
http://www.sap.com/chile/about/events/bpm/pdf/ARIS.for.SAP.NetWeaver.Expert.Paper.by.Brabaender.Schmidt.pdf
http://www.ids-scheer.com/en/ARIS/ARIS_Platform/ARIS_Business_Architect_for_SAP/3743.html
Regards,
Syed Hussain.

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Hi Solmaic,
Thanks for your reply.
ya that is what exactly is happening.
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