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Process Architecture
Published in Vivek Kale, Enterprise Process Management Systems, 2018
Process architecture is the design and organization of business processes and related components into a unified structure and hierarchy. Process components, also known as process elements, describe the various units of a process. Examples of process components include departments, goals, systems, information, artifacts, triggers, inputs, outputs, data elements, and people—just about anything that can interact with a process or that is related to a process. Modeling these components and structuring them into a suitable hierarchy, tagging them for easy navigation, and enabling proper search capabilities allows users to connect easily with the process information they care about.
Moving Enterprise Architecture from Professional Certificates to Academic Credentials
Published in Ibrahiem M. M. El Emary, Anna Brzozowska, Shaping the Future of ICT, 2017
These frameworks detail all relevant structure within the organization including business, applications, technology, and data. They provide a rigorous taxonomy and ontology that clearly identifies what processes a business performs and detailed information about how those processes are executed. The end product is a set of artifacts that describes in varying degrees of detail exactly what and how a business operates and what resources are required. These artifacts are often graphical. A business strategy architecture defines the overall strategic direction of the business, the vision, mission, business plans, and overall business objectives.A business process architecture describes the business processes that have to be put in place in order for the business to operate efficiently and support effectively the enterprise business objectives.A data/information architecture describes the structure of an organization’s logical and physical data assets and data management resources.An application architecture provides a blueprint for the individual application systems to be deployed, their interactions, and their relationships to the core business processes of the organization.A technology architecture describes the software and hardware infrastructure intended to support the deployment of core, mission-critical applications.
Guidelines on How to Use the 7FE Framework
Published in John Jeston, Business Process Management, 2018
A project team will commence several of the Launch Pad phase steps, after referring to the Enablement phase outputs to assess and gather sufficient information to know exactly where to start the project and determine its depth. The process architecture will provide the information about which processes, business IT applications and data will be affected by the required project and the guidelines for the process modeling.
Untangling process complexity in logistics delivery services with unpredictable service sequences: a mixed-method study of chemical tanker port calls
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2019
In this study, we have offered content-oriented insights into the process complexity issue in the context of a networked maritime service environment. In this environment, the core logistics service delivered is characterized by unpredictable service stages and service sequences. Referring to the theory of service process architecture from service operations management (Roth and Menor 2003), we found that factors about uncertainty and conflict—the two widely acknowledged dimensions of process complexity—can be further classified into structural and infrastructure categories. The taxonomy we proposed is a reflection of such findings, which further helped us theorize our findings as propositions to prescribe the causal relationships among the four categories of process complexity and the unpredictability of service sequences.
From the Special Issue Editors
Published in Engineering Management Journal, 2019
Edson Pinheiro De Lima, Sergio E. Gouvea Da Costa
Finally, the article “Integration of Business Process Architectures within Enterprise Architecture Approaches: A Literature Review” by Gonzalez-Lopez and Bustos from the Industrial Engineering Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) is a review article. The literature review shows that most research that analyzes Enterprise Architecture (EA) approaches recognizes the need of integrating business processes but no research provides a Business Process Architecture (BPA) viewpoint or offers specific integration guidelines. Their review concludes by identifying criteria for adopting an EA approach and highlighting research gaps for integrating EA-BPA.
Integration of Business Process Architectures within Enterprise Architecture Approaches: A Literature Review
Published in Engineering Management Journal, 2019
Fernanda Gonzalez-Lopez, Guillermo Bustos
All compared approaches recognize business processes as constituent parts of the EA, but they provide limited guidance for relating BPA to the remaining EA elements and even less guidance for building a BPA itself. The lack of more precise integration principles between both models risks consistency problems, possibly diminishing their usefulness as trustable inputs for decision making. These findings and their implications indicate that the link between Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Architecture remains a field open to further inquiry.