An ORM based Meta-Schema to Model Business Processes

An ORM based meta-schema, to represent various kinds of models of business processes, is discussed in this paper. Modeling of an enterprise as a series of business processes is gaining prominence with the emergence of new technologies such as the Internet. Enterprises are moving towards establishing well-described business processes within and across enterprises to include their customers and suppliers. Such integrations should deliver economic efficiencies to all stakeholders involved in a set of common objectives. The suggested meta- schema can be used in the early phases of requirements elicitation to specify, communicate, comprehend and refine various artifacts. This will encourage domain experts and knowledge analysts to work together in describing vital information of each business process and how they interact with each other. This should allow existing business processes to be better documented and also increase the business efficiency of each process by refining them, if required. This meta-schema, in comparison with some of the available techniques, will provide a comprehensive set of concepts to capture various aspects of business processes in a single notation system.