Design Considerations

A business process, which is a collection of activities constituting a specific business function, emphasizes how the work is done and the specific order of activities. Modeling a business process provides an overview of events, resources, and activities associated with the business process. Before you begin the graphical design of the business process, you should determine the purpose of the business process, anticipate the input and output, and identify the required resources, order of activities, and the events required to make the process work. Finally, you should define the required relationships between each activity.

Your business process design serves as an instruction manual for the runtime engine, which carries out the processing of events according to the business process definition.

To better design your business process, it is important to review the following general concepts of business process modeling in Unwired Orchestrator.