EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE BUSINESS MODELING BASED UPON STRUCTURED BUSINESS CAPABILITIES

摘要

The present invention extends to efficient and flexible business modelingbased upon structured business capabilities. A computer system receives aplurality ofbusiness modeling attributes representing different layers of a business. Thecomputersystem extracts business capability attributes from among the receivedplurality ofbusiness modeling attributes. The computer system accessing a structured datamodelthat defines data formats for the extracted business capability attributes.The computersystem formats the extracted business capability attributes in accordance withthe dataformats defined in the structured data model. The computer system models abusinesscapability based upon the formatted business capability attributes. Astructured datamodel can include a capability modeling schema having data format definitionsthatdefine how business capability attributes are to be represented. Networks ofbusinesscapabilities can be modeled and attributes from other business layers can be(re)attachedto modeled business capabilities.