Here you can read some success stories of our customers, using Enterprise Architect.

Department of Motor Vehicles – CSI Systems Redesign Project DMV, April 2009		Download PDF
Royal Navy Command and Control BAE Systems, January 2009		Download PDF
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope LSST Corporation, September 2008		Download PDF
Applying MDA to Air Traffic Control AD4 Consortium, June 2008		Download PDF
Visualizing the St.George Bank enterprise IT model St.George Bank, May 2008		Download PDF
Smart Freight Process Model for Port of Melbourne Red Wahoo and Department of Infrastructure Victoria, May 2008		Download PDF
Developing the GeoSciML interoperability standard Geoscience Australia and CSIRO, November 2007		Download PDF
Developing an Enterprise-wide Architecture Insurance Australia Group, August 2007	Read More…	Download PDF
A Model Driven approach to Business Improvement Canonic Corp and IBS Interprit, April 2007	Read More…	Download PDF
CMMI meets UML iITa, September 2006	Read More…	Download PDF
Hunter Unmanned Vehicle Mike Meakin, September 2004		Download PDF
A project rollout of UML using Enterprise Architect Xpdian, July 2002		Download PDF

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1. Has a Goal
2. Has specific inputs
3. Has specific outputs
4. Uses resources
5. Has a number of activities that are performed in some order
6. May affect more than one organizational unit. Horizontal organizational impact
7. Creates value of some kind for the customer. The customer may be internal or external.

Process Model
Within a business process you collect activities which are designed to produce a specific output optimized for the customer or the market. Clearly defined inputs and outputs helps to structure the action within an organization.

Goal
A Goal always links to a process. With a goal link you can indicate an attached object to a specific business process. The  goal is used for justification to perfom any activities.

Information
A Business processes always needs information to complete activities. Information is used as a part of the transformation process and my come from external sources, from a customer, internal or it may be a product of an other process.

Output
With business processes you create outputs,  value to the business, and usable for internal or extern requirements. An output can be an physical object, a transformation of raw ressources or also an overall business result.

Resource
The resource is the input in a business process and it is typically consumed during the processing. A resources links to a business process. With an Input link the attached object or resource is incicated that it is consumed in  the procedure.

BPMN models are holding only simple diagrams with a small set of graphical elements:

Flow Elements
- Activity
- Events
- Gateways
- Sequence flows
- Message flows
- Associations

Swimlanes/Partitions
- Pools
- Lanes

Artifacts
- Data objects
- Groups
-Annotations

One of the key features of BPMN, is the ability to create hierarchical decomposition of processes into smaller tasks. You also have the ability to represent looping constructs as well as the ability to have external events interrupting the normal process flow.

“Offpage connectros, which are link triggered intermediate events, for your Upstream and Downstream Activities”.

To repeat loops use “Repeat for Each Supplier” which is an activity that repeats its three contained activities. Repeating either once for each supplier or until a defined time exceeds.

Already in the standard version of UML 2.x you have a rich set of behavioral models you can use to model proccesses, acitivites, people and other information for almost every business.
But there is no need only using the standard UML notation for your requirements. There are two proven and well respected UML “extensions” already on the market.

First is the popular Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which rapidly became a new standard for modeling and designing business processes. And there is the “Ericsson-Penker profile”. It is used for the visualizisation and communication in business processes, keeping the important flow of information within an organization.

For further information on these two Models you should read:
Business Procces Modeling Notation
Ericsson- Penker Profile

“The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system.
The UML offers a standard way to write a system’s blueprints, including conceptual things such as business processes and system functions as well as concrete things such as programming language statements, database schemas, and reusable software components.”

The most important thing to understand is, that UML is a language for specifying! It is not a method or procedure. With UML you define a software system -  UML is the language who writes the blueprint and does not specify itself in that methodology or process.

Following domains can be defined with notation and semantics:
- Use case model
- Communication model
- State or dynamic model
- Logical or class model
- Physical component model
- Physical deployment model

UML also offers the possibility for extending the UML for your specialized needs (for example Business Process Modeling extensions). For further information on Business Process Modeling take a look at the whitepapers BPM.