Introduction to Business Modeling

• Purpose
• Relation to Other Workflows
• Concepts
  • Going from Business Models to Systems
  • Scope of Business Modeling

Purpose

The purposes of business modeling are:

• To understand the structure and dynamics of the organization.
• To ensure that customers, end users, and developers have a common understanding of the organization.
• To derive requirements on systems to support the organization.

To achieve these goals, a business use-case model and a business object model are developed.

Complementary to these models, the following artifacts are developed:

• Supplementary Business Specification
• Glossary

Relation to Other Workflows

The business modeling workflow is related to other workflows, as follows:

• The Requirements workflow uses business models as an important input to understanding requirements on the system.
• The Analysis & Design workflow uses business entities as an input to identifying entity classes in the design model.
• The Environment workflow, develops and maintains the supporting artifacts, such as the Use-Case-Modeling Guidelines, that are used during use-case modeling.