Business Process Management Concept

Business Process Management Concept
From MIKE2.0 Methodology

http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/Business_Process_Management_Concept

BPM (Business Process Management) is a software and an management activity that aims to improve and optimise organisational business processes. Repetitive business activities are organised as business processes with roles, actions, interactions, process goals and supporting infrastructure. BPM usually involves performing business process analsysis, creating a process architecture, modeling business processes, performing business process improvement and carrying out business activity monitoring. BPM software can also support the automation or semi-automation of business processes, also often referred to as Workflow.

MIKE 2.0

Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment
http://mike2.openmethodology.org/

MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an Open Source methodology for Enterprise Information Management that provides a framework for Information Development. The MIKE2.0 Methodology is part of the overall Open Methodology Framework. MIKE2.0 is a collaborative effort to help you improve your Information Management based initiatives:

Guidelines for Drawing Function Charts

Guidelines for Drawing Function Charts
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-solutions/guidelines-for-drawing-function-charts-14645

A Function Chart is a hierarchical diagram showing a progressively more detailed breakdown of the business functions and business processes of an organization.

Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology

GERAM:

Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology

Version 1.6.3 (March 1999)

IFIP–IFAC Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration

http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~bernus/taskforce/geram/versions/geram1-6-3/v1.6.3.html

Enterprise Architects

Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems
ANSI/IEEE Std 1471 :: ISO/IEC 42010
http://www.iso-architecture.org/ieee-1471/ieee-1471-faq.html

So, what is an architecture?
Architecture is that which is essential or unifying about a system; the set of properties of a system which determine the system's structure (form), behavior (function), value, cost, and risk. The definition in the recommended practice is:

architecture: the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment and the principles guiding its design and evolution.