Describing Business Processes
You can use a business process cooperation viewpoint to define a high-level view of business processes.
With the business process cooperation viewpoint, ArchiMate® provides a high-level view of business processes with which the responsibilities and dependencies for business processes can be depicted.
Note
Colors represent different information in ArchiMate®. The default color scheme categorizes the elements into the respective level of the enterprise architecture.
To use this color scheme, which is defined in the model template, select View>Colors>Method Colors.
To provide a rough description of the business processes in your enterprise architecture, proceed as follows:
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Create a business process cooperation viewpoint as an overview diagram
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Create a role to depict the people responsible for one or more business process
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Create a business process to model certain processes that occur in a corporate division
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Connect business processes to each other to express their temporal or causal dependencies
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