Take a look at some of the acronyms creeping into enterprise architectures — BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), BPM (business process management), BPO (business process outsourcing ...

I mapped my first business process diagram over 35 years ago when I joined Accenture. I used a hierarchical diagram format called IDEF0 to describe an ERP system we were implementing at a U.K ...

The functions/processes a business performs can be described in multiple ways in Architecture. Even the meaning of the words ‘function’ and ‘process’ can vary depending on the model one uses.

Architects would review high-level requirements, consider enterprise standards, and diagram an architecture on the platforms, design patterns, and components to use in the software development ...