The BPMN specification is designed to help organizations do the following: This includes the business analysts who create and refine processes, the technical developers responsible for implementing them and the business users who monitor and manage them. The value of BPMNīPMN provides a common modeling language that’s readily understandable by all business stakeholders. OMG’s BPMN 2.0.1 specification has been published as International Standard ISO/IEC 19510:2013.

The standards differ from unified modeling language (UML) used in software design. The ultimate goal is to help organizations model ways to improve efficiency, account for new circumstances and/or gain a competitive advantage.īPMN 2.0 is part of OMG’s “triple crown” of process improvement standards, which also includes case management model notation (CMMN) and decision model notation (DMN). This open consortium helps ensure that BPMN diagrams can be easily exchanged in a standardized format across different modeling tools. BPMN has been maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG) since 2005.

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