Modeling Processes with BPMN

Business processes are business flows viewed separately. They consist of a set of coherent activities which have the same aim and are typically carried out by defined roles and relationships in the context of organizational units 1. Business processes are modeled in BPMN diagrams.

The diagram editor for process modeling supports the "Business Process Model and Notation" (BPMN 2) business process modeling standard.

BPMN was implemented in Innovator for Business Analysts in an attempt to give the editor as smart a look as possible and facilitate using BPMN. e.g. Innovator specifies the precise BPMN event type from the context as much as possible itself so that the modeler does not have to.

The special concepts describe how Innovator for Business Analysts actually implements BPMN so that model relationships can be understood.

You can create process paths and present these for certain flows in a business process.

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