Services | Business Process Modeling and Automation

Central to my Metis approach to application technical design is the assertion that business information systems are essentially composed of three basic kinds of things: business entities, processes, and rules.

• Entities represent the nouns — the persons, places, and things that these systems are intended to manage.
• Processes are the verbs — the actions that operate on and orchestrate the interactions of these entities.
• Rules (or “decisions”) are the logic and conditions that inform and constrain these processes.

Modular, reusable, self-documenting, executable business process models can be created and maintained using the global Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard, i.e. these models are not just pictures of business processes; they are the business processes.  Behind the scenes, the modeling tools automatically create executable XML code as the process steps are established and refined.

Non-technical stakeholders find these diagrams easier to understand for business processes than simple flow charts and much easier to understand than UML Activity diagrams or source code, making them perfect for collaborative process design and for establishing a shared, graphical understanding of process flow between process owners and technical teams.

Let’s identify and model your organization’s key business processes positioning you for better collaboration between non-technical stakeholders and technology teams, business process automation, and business agility!