"An excellent hands-on book for practitioners eager to document theinternal structure and everyday workings of business processes.This clear and practical book belongs on the shelf of everyonededicated to mapping, maintaining, and streamlining businessprocesses." -Richard Mark Soley, Phd, Chairman and CEO, OMG "Eriksson and Penker have not just written another patterns book;this is a significant contribution to the key field of business-ITalignment. While capturing profound academic insights, what makesthe book so refreshing from a practitioner's viewpoint is therichness of accessible, down-to-earth examples and its pragmatic,unpretentious style."-Paul allen Principal of CBD Strategies andArchitectures, Sterling Software "UML may have been designed by and for software engineers, butEriksson and Penker have defined a practical extension to UML fordescribing business processes. They put this extended UMLimmediately to use with a gallery of common business patterns thatshould jump start any BPR effort."-Philippe Krchten, Director ofProcess Development Rational Software "This book is a marriage between proven business modeling conceptsand the techniques of UML. It provides real-world strategies fordeveloping large-scale, mission-critical business systems in amanner accessible to both software and businessprofessionals."-ScottW. Ambler, Author of Process Patterns Following up on their bestselling book, UML Toolkit, Hans-ErikEriksson and Magnus Penker now provide expert guidance on how touse UML to model your business systems. In this informative book,key business modeling concepts are presented, including how todefine Business Rules with UML's Object Constraint Language (OCL)and how to use business models with use cases. The authors thenprovide 26 valuable Business Patterns along with an e-business casestudy that utilizes the techniques and patterns discussed in thebook. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/