New Business Process Model Features v16.5 SP03

PowerDesigner v16.5 SP03 includes new features for the Business Process Model (BPM).

BPMN 2.0 Executable and Descriptive Languages

PowerDesigner now supports two variants of BPMN 2.0:
  • BPMN 2.0 Executable - To be used when reverse-engineering from SAP® NetWeaver® BPM or Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler. Provides strong links between participants, their lanes, and their associated events, activities, gateways, data, and flows.
  • BPMN 2.0 Descriptive - A less restrictive version, which is more suited to lighter analysis modeling and allows reuse of lanes in different pools.
Note: When opening BPMN models created in previous versions of PowerDesigner, you will be invited to choose between converting them to BPMN Descriptive or keeping them in the BPMN Executable format that was originally supported.
Documented in:
  • Business Process Modeling > BPMN 2.0 Descriptive
  • Business Process Modeling > BPMN 2.0 Executable