What is BPMN? Architects use the Business Process Modeling Notation to build flowcharts and diagrams with a set of standard symbols to represent events, activities, decisions, and data flows. The latest BPMN standard from the Object Management Group is BPMN 2.0.
Enterprise Architecture with BPMN
Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) is a popular standard for documenting the tasks and steps in processes.
Business Analysts and Enterprise Architects need to collaborate on business-oriented models with referenceable notation and semantics following the BPMN specification.
ABACUS Modelers can link business processes to:
- Business capabilities & business architecture goals and strategies
- Applications
- Technology infrastructure
They can use this connected architecture to explore dependencies, roll up cost calculations and model scenarios
Modeling with BPMN 2.0
In ABACUS, users have access to the BPMN 2.0 framework as both a reference library and a full sample architecture.
- BPMN 2.0 including semantics, structures, elements, and relationships
- Access, share and edit online process models by sending links to colleagues or by embedding diagrams and flowcharts as tabs in platforms such as MS Teams
- Document processes and integrations by linking in standards, assets, technology & infrastructure or other properties. Link in business goals and financial metrics
Lightweight web-based diagrams for quick BPMN modeling, flowcharts and digital whiteboarding
BPMN modeling with a diagram stencil & templates
- Map sequences and actions in a flowchart format to document business processes
- Simple drag-and-drop functionality to draw business process models and workflows
- Change hierarchy in web-based diagrams by dragging and dropping component shapes
- Diagrams can be fully integrated with the components in your data repository, so updates flow through and remain consistent as you make changes
Why use BPMN in ABACUS?
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Business Process Templates
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Organizational Modeling
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Business Process Records & Plans
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Open API & Integrations
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Link in Data, Metrics and Goals
BPMN Modeling for Architects
BPMN Symbols & Metamodel
Supporting all BPMN modeling requirements. Capture business processes, choreographies, and collaborations including sequence flows, exception handling models, transactions, and compensation diagrams. ABACUS includes all BPMN 2.0 modeling symbols, components and connections with descriptions and notations
Future scenarios and historical records of business processes
Easily compare and adapt ‘As-Is’ and old business processes, with ‘To-Be’ new business processes. ABACUS allows architects to quickly model and analyze change. Users can collaborate easily on online process diagrams: front-line process owners can edit and update process diagrams to provide quick feedback.
BPMN standard modeling rules vs flexible modeling
Modelers can chose to constrain modeling to BPMN modeling rules and specification: events, flow objects, data, connecting objects, swimlanes, and artifacts. They can also choose to link to and extend their architecture using other EA standards: business architecture frameworks and templates, business capabilities, technology architectures, additional enterprise architecture and security architecture standards and libraries in ABACUS
Open API and integrations
ABACUS empowers modelers with real-time collaboration through its open API and robust integrations. Push model updates to live systems and keep data in sync with automated updates. Ensure everyone across the organization has access to the latest accurate process models, on-demand.
Edit web-based diagrams
Use the ABACUS online diagram stencil to drag and drop BPMN symbols and create workflows. Freeform text edits can be made to quickly update diagrams and properties. Users can also change hierarchy in web-based diagrams by dragging and dropping component shapes. All diagram changes update directly to the architecture repository, keeping data in sync.
Rich contextual annotations, and colors
To bring clarity and ease of understanding to diagrams. Labeling elements, setting notation colors, sizing flow objects and markers, and drawing lines can be done using the ABACUS diagram stencil, or by using templates.
