BPMN: An introduction to the standard

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the de-facto standard for representing in a very expressive graphical way the processes occurring in virtually every kind of organization one can think of, from cuisine recipes to the Nobel Prize assignment process, incident management, e-mail voting systems, travel booking procedures, to name a few. In this work, we give an overview of BPMN and we present what are the links with other well-known machineries such as BPEL and XPDL. We give an assessment of how the OMG's BPMN standard is perceived and used by practitioners in everyday business process modeling chores.

Research highlights
► In this paper we present the BPMN standard, introducing its application context, history, motivations and main constructs.
► We discuss the results we collected through a survey on BPMN usage and familiarity.
► We compare our results with other publicly available data (Internet, other surveys, forums, domain experts communities).
► Finally, in this work we present a real use scenario.