Chapter 4 Building an Analysis Business Process Model

Analysis business process diagram objects

You can create the following objects in an Analysis business process diagram:

Object	Tool	Symbol	Description
Process			Task to perform. See Processes (Analysis BPM).
Composite process	None		Complex process decomposed to be further detailed. See Processes (Analysis BPM).
Organization unit			Element that hosts or implements processes and resources. It can be a company, a system, a service, an organization, a user or a role. It can also represent business partners for processes. It can have an icon representation or a swimlane representation. See Organization Units (BPM).
Role association			Unidirectional relationship that designs a link between objects. See Role Associations (BPM).
Flow			Transition between processes, starts, ends, decisions or synchronizations. See Flows (BPM).
Message format	None		Definition of data exchanged between processes. See Message Formats (BPM).
Message part	None	None	Portion of the WSDL (Web Services Description Language) message. See Message Parts (BPM)
Data	None	None	Defines the type of information exchanged between business processes. See Data (BPM)
Resource			Storage unit of abstract data circulating within the model, which is accessed by a process to perform actions. See Resources (BPM).
Resource flow			Access of a process to a resource. See Resource Flows (BPM).
Decision			Decision to take when several flow paths are possible. Only one path will be triggered at execution time. See Decisions (BPM).
Synchronization			Enables synchronization of flows between two or more concurrent actions or allows the design of a split. See Synchronizations (BPM).
Start			Starting point of the processes described in the process diagram. See Starts (Analysis BPM).
End			Termination point of the processes described in the process diagram. See Ends (Analysis BPM).

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