A business operation describes the cycle of repeated tasks which might occur in a company. Such an operation or a process usually consists of several states and the transition from one status to the other. A status inside a business operation describes a possible task status. Transition means the condition(s) to reach the next status. This transition might also depend on another process. In this case, the next status can only be reached after another business operation has reached a defined one. Therefore, division linkage is possible.