Chapter 3 Building Information Liquidity Diagrams

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 the Building Data Transformation Diagrams chapter.
• 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:

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