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This paper serves as the introductory note to the Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS’04). The workshop focuses on the exploration of issues related to the fit between business processes and Business Process Support ...
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In enterprise architecture, the goal is to integrate business resources and IT resources in order to improve an enterprises competitiveness. In an enterprise architecture project, the development team constructs a hierarchical model that represents the ent ...
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Aligning business with IT requires understanding goals, strategies and needs. To be able to express them, an enterprise model can be developed. We present some of the traditional techniques used for the development of an enterprise model (value system, BPM ...