Editing OMG OCEB BPM Technical Intermediate (section)

===='''OMG, Business Process Definition Metamodel'''====
* Chapter 1 and 2
* dtc-08-05-10 BPDM BusinessProcessDefinitionMetamodel.pdf
* Framework for understanding and specifying the processes of an organization or community
* BPDM provides the capability to represent and model business processes independent of notation or methodology, thus bringing these different approaches together into a cohesive capability
* This is done using a ''meta model'' – a model of how to describe business processes
* The meta model behind BPDM uses the OMG '''Meta Object Facility''' (MOF) to capture business processes in this very general way and to provide an XML syntax for storing and transferring business process models between tools and infrastructures
* Reason to resolve diversity in the market because
** Many methodologies (TQM, 6σ, BPR, BPM, etc..)
** No common language between the methodologies
** There are island of technology, methodology or notation
** BPDM allows to represent and model BP independent of notation or methodology 
* supports two fundamental and complementary views: orchestration and choreography 
**orchestration:
***are represented through sequences of Activities
***flow chart
***under the authority of some entity
***defined order
**Choreography:
***describes how semi-independent and collaborating entities work together
***each of entities may have their own internal processes
***captures the interaction of roles with well defined responsibilies
***is the basis for the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm
*Procsess Concepts supported by BPDM
***All BPMN notation concepts
***Processes, activities, tasks and sub-processes
***Workflow
***Sophisticated control of alternatives and parallel processes
***Conditional execution paths
***Signals and events
***Time-based events and conditions
***Events based on change in data or external conditions
***Integration with rules and rules engines through event-based semantics
***Process groups and swim-lanes
***Transactions, rollback and compensation
***Process data and data flow
***Artifacts and artifact production and dependencies
***A combination of human and automated process participants
***Service Oriented Architectures and business services
***Resource and entity selection
***Roles, responsibilities & collaborations
***Bi-directional and composite interactions between entities
***Automated execution with MDA and process execution engines such as BPEL (See non-normative mapping to BPEL)
***Interaction protocols, services and design by contract
***Composite processes
***UML activity, collaboration and interaction diagram concepts
***Process specialization, derivation and refinement
*Conformance Levels
**BPDM Full Compliance
**BPDM Collaboration Protocol Compliance
**BPDM Orchestration Process Compliance
**BPDM - BPMN Compliance