Business Process Overview
Freedom is the best word to discuss business processes. With business processes, you have freedom to process data to produce any output type. You are free to design any number of input parameters to get the job done. You are free to query, process, and transform the data however you wish. You are free to create the final output as there is no restriction on the format of the final processed data. From an architectural perspective, business processes are free to process the data and leave that data in a state that can be used by any number of future processes.