BPMN was originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI). They released version 1.0 to the public in May 2004. In June 2005, BPMI merged with OMG (Object Management Group). OMG published the BPMN specification document in February 2006. BPMN version 2.0 was developed in 2010 and the actual version was released in December 2013. The latest version (2.0.2) has been officially published by ISO as the 2013 edition of the standard: ISO/IEC 19510. Over the past few years, BPMN has rapidly become the de facto standard for process modeling. Part of the success is due to the fact that BPMN provides business analysts with a familiar look and feel, while providing a powerful business process model expressiveness. The BPMN 2.0 model can be used to communicate and exchange business requirements for business processes and provide the basis for actual process implementation. BPMN 2.0 is a basic evolution of the original standard. It extends the scope and capabilities of BPMN in the following areas:
- It formalizes the execution semantics of all BPMN elements.
- It defines extension mechanisms for Process model extensions and graph extensions.
- It improves event composition and correlation.
- It expands the definition of human interaction.
- It defines the dialog view of the orchestration model and collaboration diagram.
In short, BPMN 2.0 is no longer just a modeling notation. This is a model and notation.
Other BPMN resources
- What is BPMN?
- BPMN Orchestration vs Orchestration vs Collaboration
- BPMN activity type description
- BPMN artifact types explained