Christian Reiter is co-founder and CEO of HRW Consulting Factory AG, an international Consulting for analysis and optimisation of business processes. He is responsible for New Business, Research, Innovations and Marketing. Christian Reiter studies business administration at the University of Saarland. From 1992 to 1994, he developed first prototypes of ARIS as an academic assistant under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer, Director of the Institute for Business Information Technology at the University of Saarland. From 1994 to 2000 he managed the reference model group at IDS Sheer and was head of product management "ARIS Toolset and PPM" at IDS Prof. Scheer. Christian Reiter has written several books and other academic publications. He has extensive experience in the fields of automation of analysis and optimisation of ERP Systems, also based on the results of academic research.