Deaggregated Variant IDs

Currently, where there is looping or repetition in a process, ARIS will consolidate this looping when assigning a Variant ID, as long as the core sequence of events is not disrupted.

Thus, the following FIVE discrete process activity sequences will all have the same Variant ID as they all follow the same core sequence (New-->Resolved-->Closed), as seen in the first sequence; the other sequences have immediate repetition of the 'New' and/or 'Resolved' activities:

New-->Resolved-->Closed

New-->Resolved->Resolved-->Closed

New-->New-->Resolved-->Resolved-->Closed

New-->New-->New-->Resolved-->Closed

New-->New-->New-->New-->Resolved-->Resolved-->Closed

The phenomenon is also visually represented in the attached Excel file.

To ensure that the volumes of Variant IDs are correctly reported (and align with the actual number of discrete process sequences in the dataset), an update to the algorithm responsible for generating the Variant ID is required.