Modeling and analysis of business processes using business objects

Business processes are vital for enterprises to achieve its goals, and so investigated by many researchers. Business process modeling is used to represent business processes graphically for better understanding and communication. Recent developments in business process analysis (like Process mining) have made significant impact on process improvement and management. Process mining extracts knowledge about business processes from their executions in the system. The developments in analytical methods and abundance of analytical data motivates the investigation of modelling language specially designed for business process analysis after their executions. This paper presents a modeling approach in which business processes can be analyzed graphically at abstract level as well as at finer granularity, so more benefits from process analysis can be achieved. The proposed modelling is discussed with help of case study in which participation of involved elements (resources, data etc.) to business processes are described with a focus towards business domain.