Business Modeling
"Business Models are graphical representations of business processes, software and systems in an easy-to-understand visual format. These models are used to efficiently and accurately analyze and design business systems and IT strategy."
Software and systems are increasingly at the core of business operations and crucial to supporting innovation. In the constant cycle of adaptation and change, those responsible for designing and implementing IT systems need to be know how their systems behave and interact, in order to get an integrated view of what is, what could be, and how to get there.
Business modeling allows professionals like Business Analysts to model and analyze existing software, processes, databases, etc., to optimize, integrate and adapt them effectively. Business modeling in Enterprise Architect keeps IT solutions in-line with businesses strategy, with traceability from corporate strategy through to code. It further supports collaboration so stakeholders and teams share the same view.
Enterprise Architect extends the Universal Modeling Language (UML) (the de-facto standard for modeling software and systems), to support industry-standard Business Modeling techniques in an easily understood and traceable manner.
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
One popular notation among business analysts is the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). This notation specifically targets the business modeling community and is mapped to UML through a BPMN Profile. Enterprise Architect provides built-in support of the latest BPMN 2.0 profile.

BPSim Business Process Simulation
Used to simulate business processes in BPMN diagrams with operational data. The resulting information is then used to compare and contrast solutions.

Requirements Model
Requirements are created as elements directly within the model with interrelationships and dependencies.Data including short descriptions of the requirement, status, difficulty, priority, type, functional, non-functional, etc. are included.

Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping diagrams are a flexible, visual way of conveying and analyzing conceptual thinking. It can be well suited to collaborative discussions, problem solving, brainstorming, presenting complex ideas and decision making.

Charts and Dashboards
Dashboard diagrams display repository information in a visually compelling way such as charts and graphs depicting for example, Requirement Priorities.

Business Rules
Business Rules are used to define the implementation of a policy. In Enterprise Architect Business Rules can be traced to Policies (from which they derive), Requirements (which they realize) and the application services that implement them.

Decision Modeling Notation (DMN)
Documents and models repeatable decisions, which can then facilitate the sharing of decision models between organizations.

