Glossary.

A Business Function is a group of business processes that deliver part or all of a business capability that is closely aligned to an organization.

Business Governance relates to the processes of orverseeing (i.e. governing) the business processes, business policies, business rules and their operation within an organization to ensure they deliver the business outcomes and adhere to relevant business regulation.

Business Intelligence refers to a set of applications and technologies used to collect and analyze appropriate information about an organizations operations and performance.

The most commonly used definition of a Business Process is as a defined set of business activities that represent the steps required to achieve a business objective.

Business Process Analysis covers the capturing and analyzing Business Processes of an organization, usually within a defined subject area.

Business Process Automation is means of managing and improving the performance of an organization's business processes through the automated application of applications and technology to undertake continuous optimization of business processes in a closed-loop cycle of modeling, execution, and measurement.