Business Process (ILM)

A business process is a data store, which contains data under a specific format, such as a web service for example, and which can be associated with one or more Business Process Model (BPMs) to describe its content. The business process can be linked to:

A transformation process via a data connection. The business process is a data input in the modeling of data transformations. For more information about data transformations, see Building Data Transformation Diagrams.
Any other diagram objects via dependency links to show dependencies between these objects and the BPM associated with the business process.

In the following example, Small Corp Role is linked to TransformationProcess via a data connection, which is in turn linked to Giant Corp via another data connection. The Corp Role business process is a data input in the data transformation diagram:

Creating a Business Process
You can create a business process in any of the following ways:
Business Process Properties
You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a business process property sheet, double-click its diagram symbol or its Browser entry in the Business Processes folder.

Parent topic: Building Information Liquidity Diagrams