Getting Started with Business Process Modeling

A business process model (BPM) helps you identify, describe, and decompose business processes. You can analyze your system at various levels of detail, and focus alternatively on control flow (the sequence of execution) or data flow (the exchange of data). You can use BPEL, BPMN, and many other process languages.

The PowerDesigner® BPM allows you to analyze and design the implementation and execution of business processes using the following diagrams:

The diagram below shows how these diagrams can interact within your model. The process hierarchy diagram displays the processes of your system in a hierarchy. Each of these processes is analyzed in its own business process diagram, and service providers used to implement the sub-processes are displayed in a process service diagram:



The PowerDesigner BPM supports many of the most popular process languages:

Objects that are available to you in your model depends on the process language you have selected. For example, if you select the Analysis process language, the data transformation object is not available.

Note:

If you created a model with PowerDesigner 9 and attached a XEM (such as ebXML for example), the model will be automatically linked to the most appropriate process language, otherwise it will be linked by default to the Analysis process language.

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