Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, course: Management, language: English, abstract: The internet economy has changed our understanding of business processes. New models of business processes have been developed. No longer only the collecting and storing of information is important, but also the selection of the relevant data and information sources. Since the 1990ies the companies have come into use to think in business processes. Especially the modellng is a fundamental method to make complex business processes more comprehensible and understandable.