Modeling The Business
Within the area of enterprise engineering formal methodologies, methods and techniques are designed, tested and extensively used in order to offer organizations reusable business process solutions:
- Computer-integrated manufacturing open systems architecture (CIMOSA) methodology
- Integrated definition (IDEF) methodology
- Petri Nets
- Unified modeling language (UML) or unified enterprise modeling language (UEML)
- Enterprise Function Diagrams (EFD)
These methodologies/techniques and methods are all more or less suited in modeling the enterprise and its underlying processes. So, which of them are suited for the further development of information technology systems that are needed for effective and efficient (re)designed processes? More important, why using a time consuming enterprise methodology when information and software engineers can’t or won’t use the unclear results in the development of efficiency enabling IT systems? Before we can give the answers to these questions some short descriptions of the listed methods above are given.
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