Now we need to see the same thing happen in business and process modeling. And, as with UML, we need to take the best from many different sources. These challenges are well worth facing up to and dealing with. As we move toward the next millennium, the interest in business modeling has never been higher. Most, if not all the ERP vendors are adopting business modeling as the front end for specifying and customizing their systems.
Workflow vendors see it as the natural way of specifying and constructing their systems.
And more Visual Modeling Tool vendors are using it to either capture requirements or in some cases generate systems directly. They are adding real business and process modeling, in a way that their customers can read and relate to. We should be focusing on how these three disciplines can share information to collaborate for success and to recognize that each requires the use of its own techniques and notations. Only by working together in a cooperative way can effective systems be developed. In today's world businesses can no longer afford for IT to perform as an independent outpost.