Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

organizational theorist Organizational theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also attempts to explain how interrelated units of organiz ...

, co-founder of Open Training AB, and author of "Business modeling with UML."

Life and work

After his studies in computer science in the early 1980s, Eriksson started working in industry in the field of in system development and software architecture. In 1999 Eriksson and Magnus Penker founded Open Training in Sweden, an online learning and e-training institute. They sold the company in 2004, which continued as Open Training Sweden AB. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Eriksson authored and co-authored a series of books on business modeling and

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally m ...

in English. His first book in Swedish had been on

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of "objects", which can contain data and code. The data is in the form of fields (often known as attributes or ''properties''), and the code is in the form of ...

in C++ and was published in 1992.

Work

In their 2000 "Business modeling with UML" Eriksson and Penker propose a fundamental domain modeling concept, which became known as the Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions. This

enterprise modeling Enterprise modelling is the abstract representation, description and definition of the structure, processes, information and resources of an identifiable business, government body, or other large organization. It deals with the process of unders ...

approach was similar to

CIMOSA CIMOSA, standing for "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture", is an enterprise modeling framework, which aims to support the enterprise integration of machines, computers and people. The framework is based on the system life ...

, This reference model defined four different views of a business: resources, processes, goals, and rules. The main principles in this approach, according to Grangel (2007), are:

* Process: the set of actions that transform input objects into outputs which have an added value for the customer. Processes have a goal and are affected by events. * Events: a change of state that is caused by a process and is then received by one or more processes. * Resources: all kinds of things that are used in the enterprise, whether they are either physical or abstract, for example, information. * Goals: defined for the enterprise and each of its processes; they represent the desired state of each enterprise resource. * Business rules: define the conditions under which business activity is to be performed and enterprise knowledge should be represented. * General mechanism: mechanisms to be used in any diagram

The Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions for the UML can be applied for "the analysis and description of enterprise-wide data structures and conversions between them (OMG Common Data Warehouse Metamodel - OMG CWM), and for modeling business workflows (Workflow Management Coalition Metamodel)."''Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Engineering,'' Vol. 8, nr. 1 (March 2002), p. 3.

Selected publications

* Eriksson, Hans-Erik, and Magnus Penker. ''UML toolkit.'' John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. * Eriksson, Hans-Erik, and Magnus Penker.
Business modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work
'' John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA (2000). * Eriksson, Hans-Erik, et al. ''UML 2 toolkit.'' Vol. 26. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

References

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