Simplify Business Process Diagrams

Business Process Models either created using the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard or the Unified Modeling Language (UML) Activity diagrams typically contain a myriad of decisions in the form of cascading gateways. These introduce unnecessary complexity and inhibit a reader's ability to understand the intent of the processes. They work against the principle of straight- through-processing and make the processes large and often unwieldy resulting in the attenuation of their value to both business and technical audiences.

Using Enterprise Architect to model both the Business Processes and the Decision Models means the process diagrams can be simplified, streamlined and created in a way that complies with the principle of straight-through-processing. The complex decision logic can be removed and an element can simply refer to a separate but connected Decision Model all conveniently located in the same repository.