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Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) provides a standardized graphic notation for modeling business processes. The notation can be mapped in an executable XML-based process language (e.g. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)).

With its Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), the Object Management Group (OMG) provides a standardized graphic notation for modeling business processes. The notation can be mapped in an executable XML-based process language (e.g. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)). Innovator for Business Analysts uses the graphic notation elements which are also used in the OMG specification.

Basic elements with general character can essentially be used in all BPMN diagrams.

  • Comment

    Comments are supplementary notes about a model element.

  • Constraint

    A constraint is a Boolean term which formulates a condition or constraint for precision of semantic of model elements in a natural or machine-readable language.

You primarily use the following diagram types for business processes:

BPMN Diagram

Further Information

http://www.bpmn.org/

 

 

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