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An Experience in Modelling Business Process Architecture

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Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2019)

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We present a mapping of a previously designed Business Process Architecture (BPA) meta-model onto ArchiMate, i.e., the de facto standard Enterprise Architecture (EA) modelling language. This construct mapping allows developing process maps, i.e., descriptions of (views of) the business process architecture of an organization. We demonstrate the development of these process maps using the Signavio Business Process Management (BPM) modelling platform. The developed process maps are part of the organization’s enterprise architecture model and are linked to BPMN process diagrams that detail the functional, control-flow, data and resource aspects of the business processes included in the process map. Our research contributes to the integration of BPM and EA by researching BPA as a concept common to both disciplines.

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This work is supported by the projects BIZDEVOPS-Global (ref. RTI2018-098309-B-C31), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competition (MINECO) & FEDER and G3Soft (Engineering of Models for Governance and Management of Global Software Development) funded by “Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de la Dirección General de Universidades, Investigación e Innovación de la JCCM” of Spain.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Geert Poels

  2. Institute of Information Technology and Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Francisco Ruiz & Félix García

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  1. Department of Information Technologies and Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

  2. Departamento de Engenharia Informatica, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Department of Information Technologies and Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán

  4. Department of Information Technologies and Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Ricardo Pérez-Castillo

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Poels, G., Ruiz, F., García, F. (2019). An Experience in Modelling Business Process Architecture. In: Piattini, M., Rupino da Cunha, P., García Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Pérez-Castillo, R. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1010. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29238-6_9

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