Business process and business use case

[LYSLauk]

Can someone explain me the difference between a business process and a business use case? Is it equal or not?

Thanks for your help

[thomaskilian]

More or less it's the same. While Business Use Case is used in RUP as a stereotyped Use Case, EP for example use a stereotyped Activity for their Business Process. In the end both try to express the same: a more abstract view of the business behind the Use Cases. Both represent a set of Use Cases so you can get a more global picture. UML itself is not very powerful (yet) in business modelling. There a many flavours but none of them reach the power of tools like ARIS.

[Kevin Brennan]

A business process is something an organization does, for instance, sell copies of Enterprise Architect.

A business use case is one way of describing a business process.