Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) specification provides a graphical notation for expressing business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD). The BPMN specification also provides a binding between the notation's graphical elements and the constructs of block-structured process execution languages, including
BPML
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On June 29, 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative and the Object Management Group announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities. The combined activities will continue BPMI's and OMG's work and
focus on Business Process Management, including:
Refinement and promotion of BPMI's Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
as the basis for business modeling
Delivery of OMG's Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
Business language, vocabulary, and rules
BIM (Business Information Management)
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
B2B (Business to Business collaboration)
Web Services Information and Processes
Security Policy and Management
Refinement, promotion and education of the principles, approaches and
tenets of Business Process Management within the broader business community
The June 29 announcement also stated that the OMG will
continue integrating and reusing complementary business integration and Web
services standards such as
WS-BPEL from OASIS,
WSDL and
XML Schema from W3C.
Which Way for BPMN 2.0? Intelligent Enterprise, CA - May 6, 2008 Surprisingly little information has reached public view concerning BPMN 2.0, the update of the Business Process Management Notation standard now under ...
Blue-Crow to use Process Master's software Computer Business Review, UK - May 7, 2008 The resulting diagrams offer compliance with the industry standard BPMN notation. Process Master says that the software is capable of generating process ...
SAPPHIRE: SAP Explains BPM in NetWeaver Intelligent Enterprise, CA - May 5, 2008 In the future, when BPMN 2.0 is released, SAP will use that (which will include BPDM for serialization) for transferring models between ARIS and the SAP ...
BOC Group Releases Free Business Process Management Toolkit ... PR.com (press release), NY - May 3, 2008 In addition to its powerful modeling and simulation capabilities (four simulation algorithms), ADONIS:CE also provides BPMN support, a BPEL export ...
Flexible BPM adoption - the Finnish way IT-Director.com - May 6, 2008 It provides support for BPMN, with the ability to convert the BPMN models into BPEL specifications for making process designs executable with workflow ...
