Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

By Nishadha 

Business process modeling is mainly used to map a workflow so you can understand, analyse and make positive changes to that workflow or process. Usage of diagram helps you to visualize this process and make better decisions.

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1. Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

Simply put BPMN is a graphical representation of your business process using standard objects. If you want to get more technical It can also be defined as a set of graphical objects and rules defining available connections between the objects.

BPMN consists of the following basic building blocks;

• Flow objects: events (circles), activities (rectangles with rounded corners), and gateways (diamonds)
• Connecting objects: mainly comprising arrows, these indicate sequence flow (filled arrows), message flow (dashed arrows), and associations
• Swim lanes: pools (graphic container) and lanes (sub-partition of the pool)
• Artifacts: data objects, groups, and annotations

A business process modeled using BPMN

Creately has a separate library with the latest BPMN 2.0 object included in the library. Plus you get intelligent grouping elements, professionally designed BPMN templates and much more. Check out how Creately makes it easier to model using BPMN.

The biggest advantage of BPMN is that it’s a standard with well-defined syntax. So many business analysts are familiar with it which makes collaboration much easier. Also, most modeling tools support BPMN which makes it much easier to share and edit if even using different software. All these together makes BPMN the most popular business process modeling technique at the moment. Click here to start creating any complex BPMN diagram.

A process modeled using BPMN that has swimlanes

Find more BPMN Examples to use for free to draw business process modeling notation diagrams.