Hans-Erik Eriksson (born 1961) is a Swedish computer scientist, organizational theorist, co-founder of Open Training AB, and author of "Business modeling with UML.
"[1][2] After his studies in computer science in the early 1980s, Eriksson started working in the field of system development and software architecture.
In 1999, Eriksson and Magnus Penker founded Open Training in Sweden, an online learning and e-training institute.
[3] They sold the company in 2004, which continued as Open Training Sweden AB.
[7][8] The main principles in this approach, according to Grangel (2007), are:The Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions for the UML can be applied for "the analysis and description of enterprise-wide data structures and conversions between them (OMG Common Data Warehouse Metamodel - OMG CWM), and for modeling business workflows (Workflow Management Coalition Metamodel).