PDR606 Intro to BPM with PowerDesigner

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PDR606 - Intro to BPM with PowerDesigner
David DichmannSr. Product Manager,
PowerDesignerdichman_at_sybase.com / (978)
287-15948/5/2003
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Documenting the Business Processes

• Business Process Modeling
• Describes the business logic and business rules
• Provides a business users point of view
• Independent of implementation details
• Describes the Flow of Control in a system
• A conceptual, hi-level view
• Not limited by UML definition and notations
• Ensure system accurately automates the business

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Business Process Model Elements

• Organization Unit and Swimlane
• Start and End
• Business Process
• Resource
• Flows
• Decisions and Synchronizations
• Business Process Decomposition

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Organization Units

• Defines what role or organization is responsible
  for the task
• Typical organizations are
• Corporation
• Divisions
• Users
• Any role within the organization
• Each Organization Unit may have a parent
• Defines the organization hierarchy
• Displayed as a swimlane or an Actor

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Start and End

• Starts are triggers that fire the process
• Ends show when a process is finished running
• A Process can have several starts and ends.

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The Business Process

• Accomplishes a task
• Flow of control will be passed to another
  Business Process.
• May have one or several input flows.
• May have one or several output flows.
• Can be decomposed
• The sub-processes describes details of the parent
  process.
• Processes can be reused (with Shortcuts)

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Resources

• A special asset used by a Business Process
• Resources are
• Data
• Documents
• Databases
• Components
• Executables
• A Business Process accesses a Resource

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Flows

• Flows
• Describe the interaction between processes
• Describe the exchange of data (Create/Read/Update/
  Delete)
• May have a condition.
• Can specify a message format
• Message Format
• Defines a data format for two processes to
  communicate.
• Can be defined internally or link to document or
  URL
• Resource Flows
• Define access from a Process to a Resource
• From Process Create/Update/Delete/Execute
• From Resource Read

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Decisions and Synchronizations

• Decisions
• Define an explicit decision point
• One input flow, several output flows
• Conditions marked on flows define the answers
• yes/no
• a/b/c/d/e
• etc
• Synchronizations
• Define a synchronization point between parallel
  executions
• Several input flows, one or several output flows
  waiting for the end of all input

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Business Process Decomposition

• Each Business Process can be decomposed.
• Allows for
• High-level view of a business process
• Detailed view of a focused area
• Allows for iterative refinement of the process
• Decomposition may occur many levels deep

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Business Process Modeling Example and Demo

• Browse a Sample Business Process Model
• Swimlanes
• Process
• Flows, Decisions, and Resources
• Message Formats
• Creating links to Data and Objects
• Creating Data
• Linking Data and Importing from Data Models
• Dynamic synchronization
• Printing and Reporting

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Futures and Advanced Capabilities

• Model to Model Generation
• Multiple levels of abstraction
• Reverse engineer and generate ebXML
• Integration with Process Engines
• Specific Generation Engines for
• Financial Fusion Message Broker
• Integration Orchestrator
• Synchronization with UML and Data Models
• Team work with the Enterprise Repository
• Business Modeling Future
• Simulation of Business Processes
• Support for additional generations (BPEL4WS)

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