Adaptable enterprise modeling: a new challenge for collaborative data and process-aware management systems

The purpose of an informational system is to reflect the business it is supposed to assist. This is the reason why the informational system needs a representation of the business objects that are involved in the processes and also the business rules that are applied to the business objects. Every object is simpler than we can think and also more complex than we can imagine. Objects should be represented as simple as they are, not simpler and not more complicated. Anytime people need to communicate or record information, in any context, it is very useful to create a model. Once the model is implemented into a business application, most of these software platforms are too inflexible to keep pace with the business processes they support and take place in a changing business context. This paper introduces an adaptive approach for enterprise data and process flow modeling in informational systems.