BPMN provides a notation and model for business processes, and an exchange format that can be used to exchange BPMN process definitions (including domain models and diagram layouts) between different tools. It provides businesses with the ability to understand their internal business processes in graphical notation and enables businesses to communicate these processes in a standard way. OMG uses its experience with business process notation prior to BPMN to create next-generation notation that combines readability, flexibility and extensibility. BPMN enhances the functionality of traditional business process notation by inherently handling B2B business process concepts such as public and private processes and orchestration. It also handles advanced modeling concepts such as exception handling, transactions, and compensation. BPMN allows the creation of many types of diagrams for use by those who design and manage business processes. Analysts need to understand the multiple representations of a business process as it may need to as it goes through the entire lifecycle of development, implementation, execution, monitoring and analysis. The transfer of individuals from one company to another, company mergers and divergences, also supports this requirement... execution, monitoring and analysis. The transfer of individuals from one company to another, company mergers and divergences, also supports this requirement... execution, monitoring and analysis. The transfer of individuals from one company to another, company mergers and divergences, also supports this requirement... BPMN only supports modeling concepts applicable to business processes. Other types of modeling done by enterprises for business purposes are therefore beyond the scope of BPMN . Other types include:
Definition of organizational models and resources;
Modeling of functional decomposition;
data and information models;
strategic modeling;
Business rule model.
The main goal of BPMN is to provide a notation that is easily understood by all business users, including:
Business analyst, creating a preliminary draft of the process;
The technology developers responsible for implementing the technology will perform these processes;
Business people will be responsible for managing and monitoring these processes.
Thus, BPMN creates a standardized bridge for the gap between business process design and process implementation. Another goal, but equally important, is to ensure that XML languages designed for the execution of business processes, such as WSBPEL (Web Services Business Process Execution Language) and XPDL (XML Process Definition Language), can be visualized in an object-oriented notation alongside the business . A key goal of the BPMN specification is to support process definition portability so that users can create process definitions in one vendor's environment and use them in another vendor's environment.
Benefits of BPMN
Using BPMN provides organizations with many benefits. As a neutral notation adopted by many solution providers, it provides organizations with the ability to choose from a variety of available tools. Organizations can use BPMN at different levels. They can use a subset of it, mostly its graphical elements, to visualize the process. These graphical elements can be augmented with attributes and attributes to enable process analysis or execution in the process management execution engine. BPMN has a simple yet powerful semantics. Process models can be created by business people. They can be augmented or enriched by more experienced business or technical staff. BPMN modeling of event and exception handling is a key aspect in positioning BPMN as the leader in modeling notation.