Business Process diagrams are a feature of Together/Enterprise. Though it is not yet specified as a diagram type in the UML, Together provides the Business Process (BP) diagram to enable you to apply some of the UML extensions for business modeling.* Busines object models model the structure, processes, use cases, and relationships of a business as part of an overall business object model. The business object model describes the realization of business use cases, providing an abstraction of how business workers and business entities are related and how they must work together to actually run the business.
A business object model describes the use cases of a business from the internal viewpoint of business workers . It defines the static and dynamic aspects of relationships between the workers and the the classes and objects they use to produce the expected results. In aggregate, the objects of the model's classes should be capable of performing all the use cases of the business.
Using BP diagrams, you can model the static acpects of a business object model, especially business use cases. To one or more BP diagrams, you may add Sequence and Activity diagrams to show the dynamic acpects of the business object model and thus achieve a complete business model.
* BP diagrams are only available in Together/Enterprise.
If you need to learn how to create new diagrams in a project, or the techniques for placing elements and drawing links, consult the User's Guide topics found under " Working with Diagrams: Basic Diagram Techniques" in the Table of Contents. See Related Topics below.
Business Process daigrams contain:
Business Actors
Business Use Cases
Business Workers
Business Entities
Various relationship links:
The current UML specification (v. 1.3) does not specify any graphical variation for elements such as Use Case and Actor when used in a business object modeling context. Together BP diagrams use the standard UML graphical notation for these elements, and provides compliant notation for UML extensions such as business worker and business entity.
You can find additional information about information about business and object modeling in User's Guide: Feature-Driven Development (a process for delivering frequent, tangible, working results).