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BPMN Definitions
This introduction to Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) will acquaint you with the lingua franca of process designers, users, and analysts.
What is BPMN?
What is a Business Process Diagram (BPD)?
What is a Business Process Model (BPM)?
What are Flow Objects?
What are Events?
What are Activities?
What is a Gateway?
What are Connecting Objects?
What is Sequence Flow?
What is Message Flow?
What is an Association?
What are Swimlanes?
What are Pools?
What are Lanes?
What are Artifacts?
Artifacts allow process designers to extend the basic BPMN notation to include additional information about the process in the process diagram. There are three types of Artifacts:
  • Data Object
  • Group
  • Annotation
What is a Data Object?
What is a Group?
What are Annotactions?
For further information on BPMN, visit the Business Process Management Intiative BPMN home page (link to http://www.bpmn.org).
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