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Business process modeling is an approach that builds visual representations of business activities, events, flow controls, functions, applications, stakeholders, and their relationships. It has been shown that such modeling significantly benefits an enterprise by providing an instrument for documentation, communication, and management purposes. Extensive work has been published in the area of enterprise modeling in various fields; nevertheless, deficiencies still exist in tools and methods for capturing complex business processes. In this context, the Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS) is a system for development and modeling that has been used as a first step in developing a business process model. This paper examines ARIS by contrasting it with a newly proposed flow-based diagrammatic method called the Flowthing Model (FM). Results show that FM is a viable tool for application to business process modeling.