You’ll have a clearer picture of just how customers’ needs are met across the entire industry, not just in your company. Armed with this information you’ll have deep insight into what customers want and what they are willing to pay for. Choose some competitors and map their business models. Best of all, the models you create in EA can then be used to drive the requirements, use cases, analysis and design phases of new software development projects, all with complete traceability back to your original BPM.įor further information, see the Sparx Systems tutorial on Business Modeling with EA and the UML Profile for Business Process Modeling.You can learn a lot from your competition. Also, they serve the important function of situating new and existing software systems within the business context.Įnterprise Architect is ideally suited to capturing and documenting your business process models. Enterprise Architect can help you identify and document processes within a business, and identify which business processes can be managed more effectively. It is an important tool in understanding the activities a business undertakes, and the kind of information it needs to successfully engage in those activities. The key difference between system modeling in UML and Business Process Modeling is that the emphasis on how the work is done within an organization, rather than what work is done. This profile is used to define a set of stereotypes for working with Business Activities, Processes, Objects and Information flows.īPM differs from software system modeling in a number of important ways. Sparx Systems has available for download a detailed UML Profile for Business Process Modeling based on the extensions defined by Hans-Erik Eriksson and Magnus Penker in their book, 'Business Modeling with UML'. More detailed BPM models can easily be built using UML Profiles. UML provides activity, state, object and class diagrams to capture important business processes and artifacts. BPM often involves using a notation such as UML to capture graphical representations of the major processes, flows and stores. This allows business processes to be expressed in a standard graphical notation.īusiness Process Modeling is the discipline of defining and outlining business practices, processes, information flows, data stores and systems. The BPMN Add-in for Enterprise Architect provides a full-featured implementation of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). MDG Technology brings BPMN support to Enterprise Architect

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