A business process refers to a business activity that is performed by an enterprise in a specific data domain. A business process is a logical subject that needs to be analyzed in Data Modeling. For example, a trade data domain can contain business processes such as adding commodities to the shopping cart, placing orders, and paying orders. This topic describes how to create and use a business process.
Prerequisites
Background information
A business process is used to describe the process of a business activity, such as adding commodities to the shopping cart, placing orders, or paying orders. Some typical analysis methods, such as funnel analysis, can be used to analyze business processes and view the business effect. For example, purchases can be divided into the following business processes: browsing commodities, adding commodities to the shopping cart, placing orders, paying orders, and confirming receipt of commodities. You can create a metric named "number of orders" for each of the business processes and use this metric to perform funnel analysis on purchases.

- Plan and create atomic metrics and derived metrics in the business process.
- Associate fact tables with the business process.
Create a business process
By default, DataWorks Data Modeling provides a business process named default. If your business is simple and does not need multiple business processes, you can use the default business process.
If your business is complex, you can create business processes based on your business requirements. To create a business process, perform the following steps:
- Go to the Data Modeling page.
- Log on to the DataWorks console.
- In the left-side navigation pane, click Workspaces.
- In the top navigation bar, select the region where the workspace that you want to manage resides. Find the workspace and click Data Analytics in the Actions column.
- On the DataStudio page, click the
icon in the upper-left corner and choose .
- In the left-side navigation pane of the Data Warehouse Planning page, choose .
- Create a business process.
- Click Confirm.
What to do next
- Plan and create atomic metrics and derived metrics in the business process.
- Associate fact tables with the business process.