2. Business Process Model and Notation
• BPMN was developed by BPMI, and is currently
maintained by the OMG since the two organizations
merged in 2005.
• As of March 2011, the current version of BPMN is 2.0
• BPMN is a standard for business processing modeling
3. BPMN 1.2
• is a graphical notation (non-executable)
• has no definition of Human Task
• has BPMN to BPEL (by OASIS) translation
• has BPMN to XPDL (by WfMC) translation
5. BPMN 2.0 benefits
BPMN 2.0 extends the scope and capabilities of BPMN 1.2 in next areas:
• The BPMN 2.0 spec determines and formalizes business
process execution semantics
• Defines extensibility mechanism for both process model
extension and graphical extension
• Extends the definition of human interaction