BPM Target Reference

The chapters in this part provide information specific to the target business process languages supported by PowerDesigner.

• Working with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
  BPMN 1.0 (Business Process Modeling Notation) is a standardized graphical notation for modeling business processes. It has two main goals:
• Working with BPEL Languages
  BPEL4WS 1.1 (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) and its successor WS-BPEL 2.0 (Web Services for Business Process Execution Language) are business process orchestration standards which let you describe your business processes under the form of Web services, and specify how they are connected to each other to accomplish specific tasks. PowerDesigner supports modeling for BPEL4WS 1.1 and WS-BPEL 2.0 and higher, including round-trip engineering.
• Working with Sybase WorkSpace Business Process
  You define a BPM with the Sybase WorkSpace Business Process language when you want to design business processes and implement them using Business Process Service in Sybase WorkSpace.
• Working with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  SOA is a logical orchestration process language that allows you to orchestrate your processes without being linked to any platform or language. It belongs to the Service Orchestration family.
• Working with the Data Flow Diagram
  The Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the flow of data through an information system. It enables you to represent the processes in your information system from the viewpoint of data. The DFD lets you visualize how the system operates, what the system accomplishes and how it will be implemented, when it is refined with further specification.
• Working with EbXML
  A collaborative BPM is used to design Business-to Business exchange. It displays the exchange of messages between partners in top-level processes. Each top-level process can then be decomposed into a choreography that represents the sequence of message exchanges.