Business Process Definition MetaModel (BPDM)
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Source: http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?dtc/08-05-10
What is BPDM ⌘
"framework for understanding and specifying the processes of an organization or community"
Why BPDM ⌘
- Many methodologies (TQM, 6σ, BPR, BPM, etc..)
- No common language between the methodologies
- There are only "island" of technology, methodology or notation
- BPDM allows to represent and model BP independent of notation or methodology
- MOF
- Transferring models between tools and notations
Orchestration vs Choreography ⌘
- "Two sides of the same coin
Orchestration:
- flow chart
- under the authority of some entity
- defined order
Choreography:
- semi-independent and collaboration entities
- each of entities has their own internal processes
- captures interactions of rules
BPMN 2.0 and BPDM ⌘
- BPMN 2.0 has its own metamodel
- Since most of the vendors support BPMN 2.0 BPDM is not that important anylonger
Others ⌘
- Tool vendors are the primary audience
- Separating concerns: intended outcome of a processes from how that outcome is achieved
- BPDM is technology independent
- More reusability -> better Return on IT Investment
Procsess Concepts supported by BPDM ⌘
BPDM standardizes the underlying semantics, model and exchange mechanisms
- All BPMN notation concepts
- Processes, activities, tasks and sub-processes
- Workflow
- Sophisticated control of alternatives and parallel processes
- Conditional execution paths
- Signals and events
- Time-based events and conditions
- Events based on change in data or external conditions
- Integration with rules and rules engines through event-based semantics
- Process groups and swim-lanes
- Transactions, rollback and compensation
- Process data and data flow
- Artifacts and artifact production and dependencies
- A combination of human and automated process participants
- Service Oriented Architectures and business services
- Resource and entity selection
- Roles, responsibilities & collaborations
- Bi-directional and composite interactions between entities
- Automated execution with MDA and process execution engines such as BPEL (See non-normative mapping to BPEL)
- Interaction protocols, services and design by contract
- Composite processes
- UML activity, collaboration and interaction diagram concepts
- Process specialization, derivation and refinement
Conformance ⌘
To Processes a Model Compliance:
- Reading a BPDM model (MOF-2 XMI)
- Writing a BPDM model (MOF-2 XMI)
- Executing a model
- BPDM Full Compliance
- BPDM Collaboration Protocol Compliance
- BPDM Orchestration Process Compliance
- BPDM BPMN Compliance
