Glossary

The most commonly used definition of a Business Process is as a defined set of business activities that represent the steps required to achieve a business objective.

Business Process Analysis covers the capturing and analyzing Business Processes of an organization, usually within a defined subject area.

Business Process Automation is means of managing and improving the performance of an organization's business processes through the automated application of applications and technology to undertake continuous optimization of business processes in a closed-loop cycle of modeling, execution, and measurement.

Business Process Execution Language is a XML modelling language used to define business processes in a way that that are executable.

Business Process Improvement is a systematic approach to help any organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

Business Process Management is the management discipline of defining, modelling, controlling and optimizing processes as the means for managing business process performance outcomes and operational agility.

A Business Process Management System is a set of applications and technologies that allow organisations to facilitate the the implementation of business process management.

Business Process Model and Notation (or BPMN) is an international recognised standard created by the Object Management Group (OMG) to provide as set of graphical notations for drawing business processes.

Business Reference Model is a reference model, concentrating on the strategic, business (i.e. non-technical) and organizational aspects of an organization.

A Business Rule is a constraint that defines or constrains some aspect of a business process. Business Rules typically resolves to either a simple true or false or alternatively to know defined set of answers.