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business process
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business process

An action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling, a process can be a single task or a complicated procedure such as building a product.

In a business information system, a business process is the application of a business transaction against a database (transaction vs. master). See business process modeling and information system.



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