BPMN - Business Process Modeling Notation
Worldwide Industry Standard
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a generic
world-wide industry standard of graphical notation for representing
business process workflows.
It shows the beginning-to-end flow of a business process, such
as a "Create and Activate Bank Account" process.
Orbus has a free downloadable Visio BPMN Stencil which can be
used to start making full use of the standard.
Download the
free Visio BPMN stencil.
History of BPMN
The BPMN 1.0 specification was released to the public in May,
2004. This specification represented more than two years of effort
by the BPMI Notation Working Group.
The primary goal of the BPMN effort was to provide a notation
that is readily understandable by all business users, from the
business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes,
to the technical developers responsible for implementing the
technology that will perform those processes, and finally, to the
business people who will manage and monitor those processes.
BPMN is constantly being revised, having progressed through v1.0
to 1.1 to 1.2, with version 2.0 on the horizon. Version 1.2 is
the latest publically released specification from the Object
Management Group (OMG). BPMN is currently adopted by large
proportion of businesses worldwide, and the number is growing
rapidly.
The full specification can be found on the OMG BPMN website
which can be found at www.bpmn.org
Using BPMN and iServer
iServer fully supports BPMN 1.2 and will support BPMN 2.0 when
it is released; and additionally provides repository based modeling
capability, enforcing of the BPMN standards for all users,
collection of value-add attributes and much more.
Further Information
on the iServer 2010 Product Range for Business Process
Analysis
