Interorganizational Business Modeling: an Approach for Traceability of Goals, Organizational Models and Business Processes

The main goal of business modeling is to understand organizations to provide software solutions with high added value. This is a task far from trivial, and becomes more complex when it is modeled not a single organization but several organizations that interact. The current proposals for business modeling efforts focus only on representing business processes, usually by individual organizations, leaving aside the organizational models and information critical for business managers. To fill this gap, we present an approach for business modeling in which we link business processes to goals and organizational models. We also provide mechanisms to maintain traceability among views and provide descriptions at several levels of abstraction.