Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) – New Standard To Model Business Process Flows
Created by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), the first goal of BPMN is to provide a notation that is readily understandable by all business users. This includes the business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes to the technical developers responsible for implementing the technology that will perform those processes.
A BPMN software / solution implementation is liable to accomplish one or more duties, as outlined below, based on the information enclosed in this specification.There are following main features of conformance to the BPMN software implementation:
Visual appearance of the BPMN graphical elements: An important component of BPMN is the choice of shapes and representations used for the graphical elements recognized in the design. The intent is to generate a standard visual language that all process modelers will identify and recognize, irrespective of the source of the Diagram. Any BPMN Software that is used to build BPMN Diagrams MUST adapt to the shapes and markers as defined in this design.
Semantics of the BPMN elements:This specification describes how the graphical elements will interrelate with each other, including conditional connections based on attributes that build behavioral disparities of the elements. A conformant BPMN tool MUST Follow to these semantic descriptions.
Interchange of BPMN Diagrams between conformant tools:This draft of the Specification will not comprise a standard mechanism for Diagram exchange. The nature of this mechanism has not been defined yet. It could involve the development of a BPMN XML schema that is layered upon the BPEL4WS XML schema or it could involve the use of standard Diagram exchange formats, such a XMI. When an exchange tool has been defined, a conformant tool MUST be capable to import and export BPMN Diagrams in the specified design.
Business Process Modeling Notation also offers businesses with the competency of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give companies the capability to converse these procedures in a standard method. Currently, there are scores of process modeling tools and procedures. Given that individuals will move from one company to another and that companies will combine and deviate, it is likely that business analysts are needed to recognize various notations of business processes–potentially different representations of the same process as it moves through its lifecycle of development, implementation, execution, monitoring, and is likely that business analysts are needed to recognize various notations of business processes–potentially different representations of the same process as it moves through its lifecycle of development, implementation, execution, monitoring, and analysis.