Chapter 3 Business Process Model Basics

Functional Overview

PowerDesigner Business Process Model is a powerful design tool for identifying the business needs from a business process or functional standpoint and for graphical process-oriented design implementation.

It allows you to identify processes and atomic tasks and organize them in a hierarchy then you can implement the work performed on the analysis level with the help of business process languages like BPEL4WS (a standard for executable BPM) or Sybase Unwired Orchestrator (a proprietary assembling tool for application integration and Web services). It also allows you to design business processes and implement them using Business Process Service in Sybase WorkSpace.

The business process model describes the various internal tasks and internal processes of a business and how the partners interact with these tasks and processes.

With this product, you can:

Build a Business Process Model (BPM) using the process hierarchy diagram and the business process diagram
Implement an analysis or collaborative BPM for executable process languages (BPEL4WS and Sybase Unwired Orchestrator)
Use the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) logical executable process language to orchestrate your processes without being linked to any platform or language
Use the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) logical executable process language to design the decomposition and choreography of tasks at a business level together with having Web services in mind.
Use the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) logical executable process language to orchestrate your processes without being linked to any platform or language
Simulate the BPM with Simul8 application
Generate and reverse ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS) XML files
Generate and reverse BPEL4WS files and Sybase Unwired Orchestrator files
Generate a Business Process Model from the BPM to keep two BPM synchronized
Convert a BPEL4WS executable BPM into a Sybase Unwired Orchestrator executable BPM and conversely
Generate Sybase WorkSpace Business Process files
Reverse engineer BPEL4WS files and change target process language to design for Sybase WorkSpace Business Process
Convert an SOA executable BPM into a Sybase Unwired Orchestrator executable BPM
Open a V6 Process Analyst Model (PAM)
Customize the BPM to suit physical and performance considerations
Create and print reports