BPMN is a language to describe Business Process.
The primary goal of BPMN is to provide a standard notation that is readily understandable by all business stakeholders. These business stakeholders include the business analysts who create and refine the processes, the technical developers responsible for implementing the processes, and the business managers who monitor and manage the processes. Consequently, BPMN is intended to serve as common language to bridge the communication gap that frequently occurs between business process design and implementation.
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BPMN Designer is compatible with the version 2.0 of the OMG standard "Business Process Model and Notation".
It's based on the BPMN Domain Model of Eclipse Modeling MDT project.
The four basic categories of elements provides by the Business Process Diagram (BPD) of this Designer are as follows:
- Flow Objects: Events, Activities, Gateways
- Connecting Objects: Sequence Flow, Message Flow, Association
- Swim lanes: Pool, Lane
- Artifacts: Data Object, Group, Annotation
This designer is free (open-source with EPL license).
You can easily modify it with Obeo Designerto adapt each diagram to your needs or combine it to your own DSL. To start customizing this module, just download a free trial version of the architect edition and import the source code of BPMN Designer from Github.