The business process model and notation

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the widely accepted standard for business process modeling and provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes in a Business Process Diagram (BPD). It is based on a flowcharting technique very similar to the activity diagrams of Unified Modeling Language (UML). BPMN is maintained by Object Management Group (OMG), and the current version is 2.0 (released in March 2011).

The primary goal of BPMN is to provide a standard notation readily understandable by business stakeholders. These include business analysts who create and refine the processes, technical developers responsible for implementing these processes, and operation managers who monitor ...

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