Modeling business behavior
Business behavior models show how your business performs things such as the following:
- How services are provided
- How requests are handled internally
- What are the steps to be followed, and are they automated or not?
- What resources are required to perform which behavior?
All these questions and more can be answered in architecture models that describe business behavior. This is what we will learn in this section, and we will cover these topics:
- Defining business services
- Defining business processes
- Defining business functions
- Defining business interactions
- Defining business events
With that said, let's start with the first business behavior element – the business service.
Defining business services
"A business service represents explicitly defined behavior that a business role, business actor, or business collaboration exposes to its environment." (https://pubs.opengroup.org...