Business Process Automation is the process of developing technology components, typically software, to implement portions of an internal process within a company. These components typically replace certain manual tasks or assist the human resources involved in those tasks in performing their duties more efficiently and effectively.  
 
Although it is crucial to guarantee the highest quality of software development when creating these components to ensure their optimal integration and utilization in business processes, it is even more critical to ensure that they are properly integrated into the business processes by incorporating the necessary functionality to replace the manual labor they are intended to replace. Regrettably, this is the point at which the majority of software development initiatives fail. They are created by exceptional software architects who are highly proficient in the technical aspects of the project, but they possess a limited understanding of the underlying business model with which the software components they are designing will interact.  
 
It is not necessary for software architects to be experts in each distinct business model. Software design process should be initiated after a business analyst (or a software architect with proven business modeling knowledge) has met with the business stakeholders, asked the appropriate questions, and gained an understanding of the current and future state of the business processes. The business analyst will then develop a model that enables the software architects to comprehend the necessary interfaces between the software components and the other components (human and technological) once the automated business process is operational.  
 
This is the essence of business modeling. Developing a model of the current and future business processes that illustrates the actors who engage in interactions within those processes, the events that initiate those interactions, the actions they take in response to those events, and the data entities that flow between those actions.  
 
There is no de facto standard for business modeling. Nevertheless, the OMG has been engaged in the development of the “Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN)” specification for an extended period of time. This specification offers a graphical notation for the specification of business processes in a collection of Business Process Diagrams.  
 
The subsequent images illustrate the appearance of a BPMN diagram:

This is a highly simplified version of the procedure of depositing money in a bank in person. The diagram depicts the actors as channels, the events as small circles, the actions being executed by the actors as rounded corners squares, and the data entities as document-like icons.  
 
The objective of this article is not to provide a comprehensive explanation of each component of a BPMN diagram, but rather to motivate business organizations to incorporate this practice into their software development initiatives. By doing so, the likelihood of developing software that is both beautifully designed but entirely unusable from a business standpoint is significantly diminished, and you will establish a shared language to enhance communication with your technical collaborators.