Business Modelling for Component Systems with UML

The EC funded COMBINE Project has the objective of dramatically improving software development productivity by providing a holistic approach to component-based development of Enterprise systems. It has a single, cohesive UML based modelling environment for all development stages. Business modelling is key to user satisfaction, business flexibility and survival. Today, some IT services are so crucial to a business that, without them, things don’t just happen less well, they don’t happen at all, with disastrous consequences. Business models must do more than provide the starting point for system models – they must become an integral part of a system model, from which code is generated. “Traditional” business modelling is generally done using modelling concepts and tools that are not optimised to linking to a system model. The COMBINE Project has overcome this problem in two ways – identifying a coherent minimum set of modelling concepts and discovering a way of representing ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe, Oliver Sims, Bryan Wood, Chris Sluman
• Keywords: Business, Business Model, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EDOC 2002, Modelling