iO’s Charon bridges the gap between business process modelling and IT design, thus raising business/IT communication to new levels.

As business processes evolve and applications requirements change, two very different organizational units are involved in bringing about a solution: line-of-business units and IT departments supporting them. Solution development often suffers from different vocabularies and methodologies used on either side of the fence. Requirements are passed on verbally rather than exploiting the level of formalization business process modelling has to offer and which IT departments so often depend on. Our experience in both business analysis and IT processes has led to our Charon solution toolkit, enabling a coherent solution development process that strives to support the seamless translation of business requirements into IT solutions. Charon targets the critical transition from semi-formalized BPM models to high-level IT design models, providing immediate feedback on BPM constructs used as well as catering for iterative and incremental transitions, thus increasing process quality and efficiency.