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Business Process Modeling Method with Hierarchical Business Variation Analysis
Author(s) -
KUMAGAI KIYOSHI,
ARAKI MASATAKA,
ONO TOSHIYUKI
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics and communications in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.131
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1942-9541
pISSN - 1942-9533
DOI - 10.1002/ecj.11783
Subject(s) - business process modeling , artifact centric business process model , business rule , business process model and notation , business process , computer science , business process discovery , business analysis , business process management , process modeling , new business development , process management , business requirements , business domain , business model , business , work in process , marketing
SUMMARY Business Process Modeling (BPMod) is attracting attention as a technology that improves the quality of information system development. It can increase integrity between business operations and information systems by visualizing specifications of business requirements in the upstream process. But there are problems with development costs caused by large variations of business functions, in the application BPMod to complicated business processes. In this paper, we propose a business process design method with hierarchical business variation analysis in order to improve the productivity of model development. This makes it possible to extract the variations of business functions and to consolidate similar business functions. We applied it to an actual system development project and confirmed its effect.