Glossary

The Business Architecture describes how an organization operates and the environment in which it operates.

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.

Business Process Execution Language is a XML modelling language used to define business processes in a way that that are executable.

Business Process Improvement is a systematic approach to help any organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

Business Process Management is the management discipline of defining, modelling, controlling and optimizing processes as the means for managing business process performance outcomes and operational agility.

A Business Process Management System is a set of applications and technologies that allow organisations to facilitate the the implementation of business process management.

Business Process Model and Notation (or BPMN) is an international recognised standard created by the Object Management Group (OMG) to provide as set of graphical notations for drawing business processes.