Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Business process diagrams vs. sub-process diagrams

There is a difference between the top business process diagram created within a model or a package, and the sub-process diagram created within a decomposed process.

Business process diagrams

You can create several business process diagrams within a package or a model. Each of those diagrams is independent and designs a business process. A business process diagram defines an isolated context in which the integrity of elements can be checked.

In a business process diagram, you can:

• Create packages
• Convert the business process diagram to a package
  
  For more information about converting a diagram to a package, see the corresponding section in the General Features Guide .
• Convert the business process diagram to a decomposed process
  
  For more information about converting a business process diagram to a decomposed process, see the "Converting a business process diagram to a decomposed process" section.

Sub-process diagrams

A sub-process diagram designs a process decomposition. It details the implementation of a parent process, called decomposed process. It describes the context of a complex process. All integrity checks are performed on all elements defined in the decomposed process.

In a sub-process diagram, it is not possible to create packages. You can only use shortcuts of packages.

You can create several sub-process diagrams within a decomposed process but it is not advised though to decompose a process into too many sub-process diagrams.

For more information about sub-process diagrams, see the "Converting a business process diagram to a decomposed process" section.

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