BPM

Organizations

BPMI

In June of 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) and the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities to provide thought leadership and industry standards for this vital and growing industry. The combined group has named itself the Business Modeling & Integration (BMI) Domain Task Force (DTF).

Standards

Standard Organization Type Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) OASIS Execution Language Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) Notation language Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) BPMI Execution language Business Process Query Language (BPQL) BPMI Administration and monitoring interface Business Process Semantic Model (BPSM) BPMI Process metamodel, in fashion of Object Management Group (OMG) Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) Business Process Extension Layer (BPXL) BPMI BPEL extension for transactions, human workflow, business rules UML Activity Diagrams OMG Notation language Workflow Reference Model Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Architecture XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) WfMC Execution language Workflow API (WAPI) WfMC Administration and monitoring, human interaction, system interaction Workflow XML (WfXML) WfMC Choreography (or similar to it) Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM) OMG Execution language and/or notation language, as MDA metamodel Business Process Runtime Interface (BPRI) OMG Administration and monitoring, human interaction, system interaction, as MDA metamodel Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Choreography Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) W3C Choreography Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL) W3C Choreography XLANG Microsoft Execution language Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) IBM Execution language Business Process Schema Specification (BPSS) OASIS Choreography (and collaboration)

Notations

BPMN

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized graphical notation for drawing business processes in a workflow. BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object Management Group since the two organizations merged in 2005. Its current adopted version is 1.1 and the proposed one is 2.0.

Features of a BPM solution

Graphische Modellierung
Web-Interface
Scalability
Adaptability
Flexibility
Integration
Reusability
Transaction Management
vordefinierte Adapter
Monitoring und Management
Simulation
Support

BPM products

Sources

C:\Uwes\VisioDiagrams\Workflw.vsd
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/07/20/businessprocessmodeling.html Good Overview