Business objects and processes

Business objects

Business objects provide a series of actions that can be called from a process. For example a business object might be designed to interact with a mainframe application containing customer details. The high level process might require a customer's address to be updated. A useful business object would contain the action "Set Customer Address" and take a parameter "Customer ID" to identify to the underlying system which customer's address is to be updated. The business object would then "speak the language" of the target mainframe system to achieve its task.

Processes

A Blue Prism process is created as a diagram that looks much like a common business flow diagram. Processes are created in an area of Blue Prism named process studio which looks similar to other process modeling applications (such as MS Visio) and uses standard flow diagram symbols and notation.

The key difference with a Blue Prism diagram is that it is not an inert two-dimensional representation of a process. It is the graphical representation of a working computer program, one that will interact with applications, manipulate data, and perform decisions and calculations.

Process diagrams are comprised of various stages connected together using links to form logical structures that can be run to perform the defined tasks.