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Bayt
August 9th, 2018
Technical Session
BPM
Business Process Management (BPM)
Business process management (BPM) is the discipline of improving a business process from end to end by analyzing it, modelling how it works in different scenarios, executing improvements, monitoring the improved process and continually optimizing it.
Professionals in sales, project management, and other areas use business process management (BPM) and business process modeling software to map out their approach to any specific process.
BPM
What is BPMN?
BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a flow chart method that models the steps of a planned business process from end to end. A key to Business Process Management, it visually depicts a detailed sequence of business activities and information flows needed to complete a process.
Process Example
Process
Why BPMN?
Why should I care about BPMN?
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the global standard for process modeling and one of the most important components of successful Business-IT-Alignment.
More and more organizations are using BPMN and in more and more universities BPMN is taught as a subject. These are the reasons:
Standard
Simplicity
Power of expression
Implementation in IT
Standard
BPMN is not owned by a certain enterprise but by an institution (OMG), which is already established through other world-wide standards, e.g., UML. The standard is supported by many software products; you are less dependent on any particular vendor's products.
Simplicity
The principle behind BPMN is rather simple which is why you can start working with this notation very quickly.
Power of expression
If necessary, you can describe precisely how a process functions with BPMN. However, this is more difficult than only roughly describing the process. This way of precise modeling is possible, but not mandatory.
Implementation in IT
BPMN has been primarily developed to support technical implementation of processes ("Process Automation"). The more important the IT is in a company, the more helpful the use of BPMN becomes.
BPMI
Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) developed BPMN, which has been maintained by the Object Management Group since the two organizations merged in 2005. Version 2.0 of BPMN was released in January 2011, at which point the name was adapted to Business Process Model and Notation as execution semantics were also introduced alongside the notational and diagramming elements.
BPMN 2.0
BPMN 2.0
The vision of BPMN 2.0 is to have one single specification for a new Business Process Model and Notation that defines the notation, metamodel and interchange format but with a modified name that still preserves the "BPMN" brand.
Features
- Aligning BPMN with the business process definition meta model BPDM to form a single consistent language.
- Enabling the exchange of business process models and their diagram layouts among process modeling tools to preserve semantic integrity.
- Expand BPMN to allow model orchestrations and choreographies as stand-alone or integrated models.
- Support the display and interchange of different perspectives on a model that allow a user to focus on specific concerns.
- Serialize BPMN and provide XML schemes for model transformation and to extend BPMN towards business modeling and executive decision support.
- The final version of the specification was released in January, 2011.
Basics
- Flow objects: events, activities, gateways
- Connecting objects: sequence flow, message flow, association
- Swimlanes: pool or lane
- Artifacts: data object, group, annotation
Flow objects
Flow Objects
Connection Objects
Swimlane
SwimLanes
Artifacts
BPMN Engine
BPMN Engine
What is a BPMN Engine(Workflow Engine)?
What is BPMNE?
The Workflow Engine executes most of the symbols defined in the BPMN 2.0 standard.
With BPMN, you can express reliable service orchestration, human task flows, event handling and much more in diagrams that are technically executable yet easy to understand for everyone.
Decision Management Engine
DMN
Thanks to the pre-built integration with the DMN (Decision Management Engine), you can easily execute decision tables from within a BPMN process.