BPMN 2.0 is a new business process modeling standard that provides opportunities but also challenges. The document discusses BPMN and experiences implementing it in Germany. It addresses why processes are important given increasing complexity, and issues that can arise when business and IT try to model processes separately. Effective BPM requires considering different roles and perspectives, and using multiple views and tools rather than assuming a single suite can provide all the answers. BPMN adoption is growing in Germany, with the open source Activiti platform helping to spread use of the standard.

1. BPMN 2.0 – a new area of BPM?
And some expirences from Germany
Bernd Rücker

2. Who am I?
Bernd Rücker
Co-Founder & CEO
camunda services, Germany

3. Today I want to talk about processes…
F I R E !

4. Processes on a business level
Sales Stock Account
Customer
checks ships issues
sends order
order order invoice

5. And processes on a technical level

6. But first: Why do we talk about that?

7. The world is getting more and more complex

8. Competition gets harder

9. And strategies live shorter

10. And what about
YOUR
business processes?

11. Expensive?

12. Unclear?

13. Inflexible?

14. Business tried with EPC or Power Point, but what about IT?
Receive
Invoice
Accounting
Insert invoice
into system „How do I know that we receive it?“
Trigger check
„Why does he trigger that?“
Accounting
for invoice
„How do they communicate?“
Business
Check Invoice
department „Hmm, how can we correlate that?“
Business Communicate „And if we don‘t get any result?“
department result
„Is that good or bad?“
XOR
Invoice Invoice
OK Not OK
Accounting Issue payment
Payment
issued

15. IT tried to work with BPEL, but business surrendered…
<!-- Deklaration eines asynchronen “Hello World” Prozesses -->
<process name=”HelloWorld” ... >
<!-- Liste der am Prozess beteiligten Services -->
<partnerLinks>
<!-- Nur ein beteiligter Service: Der Dienst-Nutzer -->
<partnerLink name=”client” partnerLinkType =”HelloWorld”
myRole=”HelloWorldProvider” partnerRole=”HelloWorldRequester” />
</partnerLinks>
<!-- Liste der (XML-)Dokumente, die im Prozess verwendet werden -->
<variables>
<!-- XML-Dokument, das der Dienst-Nutzer beim Aufruf übergibt -->
<variable name="input" messageType="HelloWorldRequestMessage"/>
<!-- XML-Dokument, das der Dienst-Nutzer vom Prozess erhält -->
<variable name="output" messageType="HelloWorldResultMessage"/>
</variables>
?
<!-- Definition der Ablauflogik im Prozess (Aktiviäten) -->
<sequence>
<!-- Übergabe-Parameter vom Dienst-Nutzer entgegen nehmen -->
<receive name="receiveInput" partnerLink="client"
portType="tns:HelloWorld" operation="initiate" variable="input"
createInstance="yes"/>
<!-- Output-Parameter abhängig vom Input erstellen -->
<assign>
<copy> <from expression="concat('Hello
',bpws:getVariableData('input', 'test','/tns:name'))"/>
<to variable="output" part="test"
query="/result"/>
</copy>
</assign>
<!-- Dienst-Nutzer aufrufen, um Antwort zu übergeben -->
<invoke name="replyOutput" partnerLink="client"
portType="tns:HelloWorldCallback" operation="onResult"
inputVariable="output"/>
</sequence>
</process>

16. By the way: IT as well ☺

17. So?

19. Some boring facts
BPMN is a worldwide OMG standard
Latest version is BPMN 2.0
All big vendors go for BPMN

20. Some not so boring facts

21. What‘s so cool about BPMN 2.0?

22. What does that mean as well?

23. What you need is not only BPMN
Methods
Roles
Tools
Your BPMN approach

24. Example method and roles
Process
Owner
Process Analyst
Process
Manager
Process
Participant
Process
Engineer

25. siehe www.bpm-guide.de/activiti/
Example: Incident Management
Layer 1

26. Reality
Layer 2

27. Maybe your tool allows different views
Layer 2

28. The executable process is one part of the story

29. And it may be real source code!

30. But be aware!

31. Accept different roles = different views = different tools

32. And it works!
Transparency
Business
Process Process
Forward Process Centric Process
Engineering Reverse Development Monitoring /
Engineering Reporting
IT

33. But: Don‘t believe in this!
Modelling Monitoring
Business
IT
Magic BPM-Suite
Human Workflow EAI / SOA

34. And in Germany?

35. BPMN starts to be all over…
…

36. Activiti (Open Source BPM Platform), an european project

37. Purely European? Not any more :-)

38. What we all should try to achieve from here…
IST
SOLL

39. Thank you very much! Any questions?

40. camunda services GmbH
Vielen Dank! Zossener Str. 55-58
1096 Berlin
1
Telefon: +49 30 664 0409-00
Telefax: +49 30 664 0409-29
Email: info@camunda.com
Bernd Rücker
CEO
bernd.ruecker@camunda.com
2do Seminaro BPM & BPO
Chile, 05.10.2010
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