Ebook: From Business Process to Application

ARIS Expert Paper, May 2006. – 9 pages. www.ids-scheer.com/soaAlthough modeling in software development has previously been used rather hesitantly and only for post-project documentation of individual aspects, it has long been considered as a standard in the technical departments of many enterprises. Model-based acquisition, monitoring, and continuous optimization of business processes has become indispensable for gaining and securing competitive advantages. With the introduction of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) by the OMG and its rather pragmatic variant – the Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) – the topic of modeling has recently become important in software development.
Several publications on the subject of integration of business process analysis and object-oriented software development already exist and are usually transpose the modeling methods used in software development onto the business process modeling.This article presents an integration solution based on classic business process modeling widely distributed in the technical departments of the enterprises.