Organization Units ( BPM)

An organization unit can represent a company, a system, a service, an organization, a user or a role, which is responsible for a process. It can also be a business partner who uses high level processes.

Choreography Diagram

An organization unit can be created in a choreography diagram with any target language. It allows you to assign responsibilities within your system, and displays as a swimlane, which can contain all the symbols of a choreography diagram.

In the following diagram, the Stock organization unit is responsible for the Check Stock process and of the Ship FedEx and Ship USPS processes. The management of these latter processes depends on whether the delivery must be overnight or not:

Top-level Diagram

An organization unit can be created in a top-level diagram with any of the following target languages:

• Orchestration languages (BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL only)

• Collaborative language

An organization unit allows you to identify external partners, which interact with your system, and displays as an actor.

In the following example, the Buyer organization unit interacts with the Order process:

• Creating an Organization Unit
  Create an organization unit to show the participant responsible for the execution of processes.
• Organization Unit Properties
  To view or edit an organization unit's properties, double-click its diagram symbol or Browser or list entry. The property sheet tabs and fields listed here are those available by default, before any customization of the interface by you or an administrator.
• Attaching Processes to Organization Units
  Attach processes to organization units to graphically assign responsibility for them. When processes are attached to an organization unit displayed in a swimlane, the organization unit name is displayed in the Organization Unit list of their property sheets.
• Displaying a Committee Process
  A committee process is a decomposed process whose sub-processes are managed by several organization units.
• Managing Swimlanes and Pools
  Each group of one or more swimlanes forms a pool. You can create multiple pools in a diagram, and each pool is generally used to represent a separate organization.