Business Process Model and Notation 2.0

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) provides a set of diagrams, which are designed for use by the people who design and manage Business Processes. BPMN also provides a mapping to an execution language of BPM Systems. Thus, BPMN would provide a standard visualization mechanism for Business Processes defined in an execution optimized business process language. BPMN provides businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner. Currently, there are scores of Process modeling tools and methodologies. Given that individuals will move from one company to another and that companies will merge and diverge, it is likely that business analysts need to understand multiple representations of Business Processes—potentially different representations of the same Process as it moves through its lifecycle of development, implementation, execution, monitoring, and analysis. Therefore, a standard graphical notation will facilitate the understanding of the performance Collaborations and business transactions within and between the organizations. This will ensure that businesses will understand themselves and participants in their business and will enable organizations to adjust to new internal and B2B business circumstances quickly. BPMN follows the tradition of flowcharting notations for readability and flexibility. In addition, the BPMN execution semantics is fully formalized. The OMG is using the experience of the business process notations that have preceded BPMN to create the next generation notation that combines readability, flexibility, and expandability. BPMN will also advance the capabilities of traditional business process notations by inherently handling B2B Business Process concepts, such as public and private Processes and Choreographies, as well as advanced modeling concepts, such as exception handling, transactions, and compensation.

This is the BPMN specification, which provides a notation and model for Business Processes and an interchange format that can be used to exchange BPMN Process definitions (both domain model and diagram layout) between different tools. The goal of the specification is to enable portability of Process definitions, so that users can take Process definitions created in
one vendor’s environment and use them in another vendor’s environment.

To learn more about BPMN, check out this BPMN specification, or have a look at the BPMN resources below:

• Article: What is BPMN?
• Official site of BPMN – Object Management Group BPMN
• Business Process Model and Notation (Wikipedia)

Visual Paradigm features an online BPMN diagram tool and a desktop-based BPMN modeler. If you want to create BPMN, check out the links below:

• Online BPMN diagram maker
• Online BPMN templates
• Desktop-based BPMN modeler