Defines the nature, the type and the duration of an action that a process executes
BPM created using the Analysis business process language. It does not include any implementation details
Set of Business Activities in a collaborative BPM, which can consist in conducting a Business Transaction or another complete Binary Collaboration
Defines which document follows, which document within a business transaction in a collaborative BPM
Activity that a business can engage in and for which it would generally want one or more partners
Conceptual model which provides a close description of the business logic and rules from a business partner's point of view using a diagram that shows interactions between processes, flows, messages and collaboration protocols from one or several start points to several potential end points
Written statement specifying what the information system must do or how it must be structured to support business needs. It guides and documents the creation of a model (example: a government-imposed law)
Atomic interaction (in a trading arrangement) between two business partners that consists in one or two predefined business document flows
External view to defines the flow of information exchanges among a set of participants to implement a business process composing multiple Web services
Agreement among a set of participants to achieve a common goal or specified outcome in a shared process
BPM created using a collaborative business process language (usually ebXML). It is particularly suitable to describe the collaborations between partners that are all considered at the same level
Process whose sub-processes hierarchy is collapsed
Composite process whose sub-processes are managed by several organization units designed as swimlanes
Child process used to describe the actions of the parent process
Expanded view of a composite process in a diagram to have a global view of the whole sub-diagram content
A condition that must be satisfied for an associated flow to execute some action
Ordered list of variables in an executable BPM
Table that shows the links between processes and resources. When a link exists, it shows whether the process performs a Create, Read, Update, or Delete operation on the resource
Defines the type of information exchanged between business processes
Object in an executable BPM that is used to copy data from one variable to another
Specifies which alternate path has to be taken when several flow paths are possible
Semantic relationship between two modeling elements, in which a change to one modeling element (the influent element) may affect the semantics of the other modeling element (the dependent element)
Graphical view of a model or package, which displays object symbols
Set of specifications for standardizing XML globally in order to facilitate business over the Internet between companies of any size.
Represents a termination point of the processes described in the business process diagram
Occurrence of an interruption in the normal execution of the process in an executable BPM
Manages the handling of process events
Signal raised in response to behavioral faults during system execution
BPM created using an executable business process language. It can help you design the process internal to an organization or the orchestration of Web services without being linked to any platform or language
Process whose sub-processes hierarchy is expanded
Interaction between two objects with potential exchange of data
Type of synchronization that defines the splitting of an input flow into several output flows executed in parallel
Type of synchronization that defines the synchronization of several parallel flows
Process implementation type used to provide simple declaration of loops
Composite activity that repeatedly performs its child activities until the certain condition is reached
Conveyance of information from one object to another with the expectation that activity will follow
Data format that depends on the nature of the exchanged data and on which two objects agree to communicate
Sub-division of the whole message format into several independent parts. It is attached to the message format and cannot be moved without it. It is usually associated with executable BPM objects
Set of Binary Collaborations between business partners in a collaborative BPM. Each partner plays one or more roles in the collaboration
Symbol for displaying a comment or textual information (ex: a method body or constraint)
Implementation for an atomic process (activity)
Internal view to define interactions and process flows among Web services within a single organization
Element that allows you to define which organization is responsible for which process. It can represent a company, a system, a service, an organization, a user or a role. It is equivalent to the swimlane in UML
General purpose mechanism for organizing elements into groups. It contains model objects
Invocation of a manual or automated action
Process hierarchy structure of a business process model that allows you to identify the atomic business tasks, review the whole process of a business project and focus on redundant or missing tasks in the model
Contains the specifications for a particular language. It provides PowerDesigner with the syntax and guidelines for implementing stereotypes, scripts and constants for a process language
Set of rules that govern the transmission and reception of data
Similar to a data store, it can be a data, a document, a database, a component, or an executable
Allows a process to access a resource. Information within the resource can be created, updated, deleted or read by the process
Process implementation type used to implement processes by other processes
Relationship that designs an interaction between an organization unit and a process
Object in an executable BPM that gathers a set of operations, for which it represents a namespace
Object in an executable BPM that gathers a set of service interfaces, for which it represents a namespace
Object representing and referencing an object in the same model, or across different models
A way to move to the most effective process without making costly mistakes
Starting point of the whole process represented in the business process diagram
Sub-classification used to extend the semantics of an object without changing its structure; it can be predefined or user-defined
UML representation of the organization unit
Synchronization point between parallel executions (several input flows, one or several output flows waiting for the end of all input executions)
Defined under a model or a package, it represents the subject of the process model, and sets the model scope and orientation in a collaborative BPM
Global service that does not belong to a graph but describes its behavior in a sub-graph
The Universal Description Discovery and Integration specification is an XML-based registry for businesses worldwide that list them on the Internet
Data container local to a process in an executable BPM
A Web service is a service offered via the Web. It is an application that accepts XML formatted requests from other systems across a network via communications protocols
Web Services Description Language. XML formatted interface for a web service that describes what a web service is capable of, and how a client can locate and invoke that service
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