BUSINESS PROCESS

Business Process Modeling Notation



Business Process Modeling Notation

Introduction

Business Process Modeling Notation, BPMN is a system of symbols (notation) for business process modeling (Hlupic 2003). BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) and is supported by Object Management Group, after the merger of the organizations in 2005. The previous version of BPMN was 1.2; while the latest version is 2.0 (Wolter & Meinel 2010). Reengineering of business processes (RPP) has an impact on some subsets of the information system to be identified. This impact can involve a few very specific sub-processes (initialization of a stock-in-progress). The implementation of a new business process leads to raise issues of interoperability between business processes of different organizations. It is therefore necessary, with the merger of two organizations (partnerships, mergers, etc) to study the impacts on internal processes of each organization (Koussouris 2010).

Description

The specification describes the BPMN notation to display the business process in the form of diagrams of business processes (DSB). BPMN is focused both on the technical expertise and the business users. For this language uses a basic set of intuitive elements that allow you to define complex semantic structures (Wolter & Meinel 2010). In addition, BPMN specification defines how a chart describing a business process can be transformed into an executable model of the language BPEL . BPMN 2.0 specification as an executable and portable (ie process, drawn by one editor from the same manufacturer can be performed on the engine business processes of an entirely different manufacturer, provided they support BPMN 2.0).

The main objective of BPMN is the creation of a standard set of symbols that are understandable to all business users. Business users include business analysts who create and improve processes, technical developers responsible for implementing processes and managers who take care of processes and managing them. Thus, BPMN is intended to serve as a link between the design phase of the business process and its implementation phase (Yang 2008).

Currently, there are several competing standards for business process modeling. BPMN will help unify the spread of ways of presenting the basic concepts of business processes (eg, public and private business process choreography) as well as more complex concepts (eg, exception handling, compensation transactions).

Scope

BPMN is planned to support only those processes that are applicable to business processes. This means that any other type of modeling conducted by an organization for purposes other than those of the business is not within the scope of BPMN (Rojo, Rolón, Calahorra & Espartero 2008). The main objective of BPMN is to provide a standard notation that is easily readable and understandable by all stakeholders and business stakeholders (stakeholders). (Korherr 2008). BPMN supports a set of concepts required for modeling business processes. Modeling of other aspects in addition to business processes is outside the focus BPMN. For example, modeling the following aspects are not described in BPMN:

The data model

Despite the fact that BPMN allows modeling data flow and the flow of messages and data associated with the actions, it is not a scheme of ...