Building BPMs

The chapters in this part explain how to model your business processes in PowerDesigner®.

• 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.
• Building Process Hierarchy Diagrams
  A process hierarchy diagram (or functional decomposition diagram) provides a graphical view of the functions of a system and helps you decompose them into a tree of sub-processes.
• Building Business Process Diagrams
  A business process diagram (or process flow diagram) provides a graphical view of the control flow (the sequence of execution) or data flow (the exchange of data) between processes at any level in your system.
• Building Process Service Diagrams
  A process service diagram provides a graphical view of the services, operations, and interfaces available in your system.
• Simulating a Business Process Model with SIMUL8
  Simulation helps you to better understand the expected performance of your business processes before their implementation, by providing you with useful analysis metrics and assistance in business process optimization.