Business Process Viewpoint
The Business Process viewpoint is used to show the high-level structure and composition of one business process. Next to the processes themselves, this viewpoint contains other directly related concepts, such as:
• The services a business process offers to the outside world, showing how a process contributes to the realization of the company’s products
• The assignment of business processes to roles, which gives insight into the responsibilities of the associated actors
• The information used by the business process
Concepts and Relations
The ArchiMate concepts used in a Business Process viewpoint Diagram and their relations are described below.
This viewpoint describes a Business Process or a Business Interaction
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Business Collaboration is defined as a named specific behavior a (temporary) configuration of two or more business roles resulting in specific collective behavior in a particular context
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Business Interface declares how a business role can connect with its environment
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Business Role is defined as a named specific behavior of a
Business Actor participating in a particular contex
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Business Actor is defined as an organizational entity capable of (actively) performing behavior.
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Business process is defined as a unit of internal behavior or collection of causally-related units of internal behavior intended to produce a defined set of products and services.
A Business Activity is a step within a Business Process
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Business event is defined as something that happens (internally or externally) and influences behavior (business process, business function, business interaction).
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Business object is defined as a unit of information that has relevance from a business perspective.
+ Representation is not implemented in this version of HOPEX Archimate.
Example Presentation
This diagram represents the functional description of "Damage Claiming process".
Example of Business Process viewpoint diagram
