Patent ID: 8386996

Claim:
A computer program product tangibly embodied on a non-transient computer readable medium for processing a coherent multi-dimensional business process model, the computer program product storing instructions operable when executed by a hardware processor to: identify the coherent multi-dimensional business process model based on identifying at least a portion of a first model for a first business process and identifying at least a portion of a second model for the first business process, the at least a portion of the first model for the first business process and the at least a portion of the second model for the first business process defining the coherent multi-dimensional business process model; parse the multi-dimensional business process model to identify at least one extension point, each of the at least one extension points operable to interface a disparate business process with the first business process, the at least one extension point identifying a non-invasive point of extension of the first business process; and present an extension wizard to a client for a particular one of the identified extension points, the extension wizard providing a user interface to guide the extension of the first business process based on the identified extension points and the disparate business process, wherein the extension wizard creates an underlying model in an extension layer showing an extended multi-dimensional business process model as an abstraction, the extended multi-dimensional business process model including at least one extension of the first business process.