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From Business Modeling to Web Services Implementation: Part 1: Modeling a Business Process

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Overview A typical software development lifecycle begins with an effort to understand the system that is conceived to be built. One of the de facto standard methods that is used for system understanding is to model the business processes that collectively constitute the system's overall functionality. Each business process is an effort to streamline an enterprises' operations and functions. These business process models are then subsequently used by the system architects and designers to come up with a system architecture that is then followed by an instance implementation of the architecture that realizes the business processes. Business process analysts have used various methods to capture the business process models.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	February 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering, Web Services

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