Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a business software application. In one embodiment, a business application generation system for automatically generating a business software application is provided. The business application generation system may include a central processing unit, a repository containing a set of meta data, a generation tool, and input/output means for treating the meta data and for invoking the generation tool. The set of meta data may contain structured business process application information. Further, the generation tool may retrieve data from the repository and, on the basis of the retrieved repository data, generate a customized business process application.