Phase B - Business Architecture

The Process/Event/Control/Product catalog provides a hierarchy of processes, events that trigger processes, outputs from processes, and controls applied to the execution of processes.

The purpose of the Organization/Actor catalog is to capture a definitive listing of all participants that interact with IT, including users and owners of IT systems. The Organization/Actor catalog can be referenced when developing requirements in order to test for completeness. For example, requirements for an application that services customers can be tested for completeness by verifying exactly which customer types need to be supported and whether there are any particular requirements or restrictions for user types. The Organization/Actor catalog contains the following metamodel

The purpose of this matrix is to depict the relationship interactions between organizations and business functions across the enterprise. Understanding business interaction of an enterprise is important as it helps to highlight value chain and dependencies across organizations. The Business Interaction matrix shows the following metamodel entities and relationships: Organization Business Function Business Service Business Service communicates with Business Service relationships Business Service is dependent on Business Service relationships

The purpose of the Driver/Goal/Objective catalog is to provide a cross-organizational reference of how an organization meets its drivers in practical terms through goals, objectives, and (optionally) measures. Publishing a definitive breakdown of drivers, goals, and objectives allows change initiatives within the enterprise to identify synergies across the organization (e.g., multiple organizations attempting to achieve similar objectives), which in turn allow stakeholders to be identified and related change initiatives to be aligned or consolidated. The Driver/Goal/Objective catalog c

The purpose of the Business Event diagram is to depict the relationship between events and process. Certain events — such as arrival of certain information (e.g., customer submits sales order) or a certain point in time (e.g., end of fiscal quarter) — cause work and certain actions need to be undertaken within the business. These are often referred to as "business events" or simply "events" and are considered as triggers for a process. It is important to note that the event has to trigger a process and generate a business response or result.

This diagram shows the possible state transitions of a business product, from its creation or receipt to its sale, disposal, or destruction. The product may be a product of any kind (physical, software, or service).

A Business Use-Case diagram displays the relationships between consumers and providers of business services. Business services are consumed by actors or other business services and the Business Use-Case diagram provides added richness in describing business capability by illustrating how and when that capability is used. The purpose of the Business Use-Case diagram is to help to describe and validate the interaction between actors and their roles to processes and functions.