Enterprise Pattern: integrating the business process into a unified enterprise model of modern service company. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Ying; Luo, Zhiling; Yin, Jianwei; Xu, Lida; Yin, Yuyu; Wu, Zhaohui
• Is Part Of: Enterprise information systems. Volume 11:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 37
• Page End: 57
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Enterprise Pattern -- modern service company -- business model -- business process -- value creation and economic analysis; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; 658.4038011
• DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2015.1053415
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-7575

Abstract

Abstract : Modern service company (MSC), the enterprise involving special domains, such as the financial industry, information service industry and technology development industry, depends heavily on information technology. Modelling of such enterprise has attracted much research attention because it promises to help enterprise managers to analyse basic business strategies (e.g. the pricing strategy) and even optimise the business process (BP) to gain benefits. While the existing models proposed by economists cover the economic elements, they fail to address the basic BP and its relationship with the economic characteristics. Those proposed in computer science regardless of achieving great success in BP modelling perform poorly in supporting the economic analysis. Therefore, the existing approaches fail to satisfy the requirement of enterprise modelling for MSC, which demands simultaneous consideration of both economic analysing and business processing. In this article, we provide a unified enterprise modelling approach named Enterprise Pattern (EP) which bridges the gap between the BP model and the enterprise economic model of MSC. Proposing a language named Enterprise Pattern Description Language (EPDL) covering all the basic language elements of EP, we formulate the language syntaxes and two basic extraction rules assisting economic analysis. Furthermore, we extend Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to support EPDL, named BPMN for Enterprise Pattern (BPMN4EP). The example of mobile application platform is studied in detail for a better understanding of EPDL.