Authors:
Estrela F. Cruz
1
;
Ricardo J. Machado
2
and
Maribel Y. Santos
2
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo and Universidade do Minho, Portugal
;
2
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Business Process Modeling, BPMN, Data Model.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
;
Software Engineering
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
Business process modeling and management approaches are increasingly used and disclosed between organizations
as a means of optimizing and streamlining the business activities. A business process model identifies
the activities, resources and data involved in the creation of a product or service, having lots of useful information
that can be used to create a data model for the supporting software system. A data model is one of
the most important models used in software development. Usually an organization deals with several business
processes. As a consequence a software product does not usually support only one business process, but rather
a set of business processes. This paper proposes an approach to generate a data model, based on a set of
interrelated business processes, modeled in BPMN language. The approach allows aggregating in one data
model all the information about persistent data that can be extracted from the set of business process models
serving as a basis for the soft
ware development.
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