Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2009, 55(1):20-24 | DOI: 10.17221/2503-AGRICECON

Business rules specification and business processes modeling

I. Rábová

Department of Informatics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic

Up to date business is managed by large-scale different rules that regulate how the business acts and how it is structured. We find the rules in law, regulation, business policy document, procedures manual, system documentation, memoranda etc. These reference resources may provide the specific basis for a rule or offer a background, context or explanation of the business rule. In the recent years, it has been discovered that business rules constitute an entire body of knowledge that has not been adequately addressed in either the analysis or design phases of the information system development. Typically, business rules have been buried in the program code or in the database structures. The article deals with the business rules approach and rule technology and helps to identify the business and technical opportunities they afford to the company. It offers the business process model and its integration with business rules. This approach could provide business analysts with an essential approach to understanding, redesigning and communicating what really happens in the business processes (in agricultural area). It serves to understand the business impact of any change in small and medium-sized organizations. We use the UML notation and its business model extension.

Keywords: business rules, business architecture, business process, UML, business concepts, knowledge management, information system, business goal

Published: January 31, 2009  Show citation