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Concepts

Purpose To top of page

The purposes of business modeling are:

  • To understand the structure and the dynamics of the organization in which a system is to be deployed (the target organization).
  • To understand current problems in the target organization and identify improvement potentials. 
  • To ensure that customers, end users, and developers have a common understanding of the target organization.
  • To derive the system requirements needed to support the target organization.

To achieve these goals, the business modeling discipline describes how to develop a vision of the new target organization, and based on this vision define the processes, roles, and responsibilities of that organization in a business use-case model and a business object model.

Complementary to these models, the following artifacts are developed:

  • Supplementary Business Specification
  • Glossary

Relation to Other Disciplines To top of page

The business modeling discipline is related to other disciplines, as follows:

  • The Requirements discipline uses business models as an important input to understanding requirements on the system.
  • The Analysis & Design discipline uses business entities as an input to identifying entity classes in the design model.
  • The Environment discipline develops and maintains supporting artifacts, such as the Business-Modeling Guidelines.
 

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