Linking BPMN, ArchiMate, and BWW: Perfect Match for Complete and Lawful Business Process Models?

Enterprise architecture (EA) models are helpful for describing elements that are necessary for modelling business processes at different architectural layers of the enterprise. Business process models are used to describe detailed enterprise processes in order to analyse and improve them. Business process logic provided in the business layer of EA is very abstract comparing with business process models. Therefore EA models and business process models must be linked to address in detail both structural and behavioural aspects of the information system. However linked EA and business process models do not imply that the models provide complete and lawful descriptions of the information system. The paper uses a theoretical foundation of Bunge-Wand-Weber system’s model and evaluates how industry standards BPMN and ArchiMate contribute to creation of complete and lawful business process models.