Differentiating automated process/workflows and page flows

Business architects, enterprise architects, and business departments often model business processes without considering the architectural layers they are positioned in. Many modeling tools further support this approach. For example, it is possible to use Event Process Chains (EPC), the very prominent modeling language right below value chains, down to use cases, and here, detailing out toward last-minute details of user interactions. When we attempt to automate processes, there is an important architectural barrier depicted earlier as page flows. Other feasible terms are UI flows, sequence of forms, steps in user stories, or use cases.

The demarcation line can be drawn at the notion of ...

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