Until now, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been mainly used to design the software, but should you use it to model your entire business as well? Written for any manager with some technical background, the book explores the possibility of UML used to model the entire organization. This book makes a strong case for the benefits of business modeling in UML. The Erickson-Penker Business Extensions for UML, invented by the authors and are presented in the text, UML permission to document the entire business enterprise. This book shows how the business model, from business process architecture, business rules, and goals Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: The basics of business modeling, UML notation and Erickson-Business Penker Extensions, and powertypes class diagrams, object diagrams, statecharts, activity diagrams and swimlanes, sequence and collaboration diagrams, collaboration and use case diagrams, component and deployment diagrams, stereotypes, business architecture, business processes, resources, objectives, business rules, Object Constraint Language (OCL) and collections, business views and patterns, allocation of business goals, decomposition of business goals, business goals, problems, and software architecture