  Process maps provide a high-level overview of an organisation's business
processes. While used for many years in different shapes and forms, there is
little shared understanding of the concept and its relationship to enterprise
architecture. In this report we position the concept of business process map
within the domain of enterprise architecture. Based on literature, we provide a
conceptualisation of the process map as a business process architecture model
that can be integrated with the broader enterprise architecture model. From our
conceptualisation we derive requirements for designing a meta-model of a
modelling language for process maps. The design of this meta-model is the
subject of a research paper, entitled Architecting Business Process Maps, for
which this report acts as a complement that details the underlying process map
conceptualisation.
