The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand. The method comprises: providing a business process document for expressing the business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of components and a workflow; providing a plurality of installation documents, where each installation document describes an installation of a component of the business process; providing a mapping document for mapping each component of the business process to at least one of the installation documents describing the installation of that component; and provisioning the business process on-demand using the business process document, the installation documents, and the mapping document.