Business process classification and BPMN

Business process modeling is aimed at capturing a range of information pertaining to how a business works and making this information available to a wide variety of stakeholders. This means that processes mapped in BPMN should easily be comprehensible across the organizational hierarchy. BPMN is therefore designed to cover a wide array of usages in its notation and allows the modeling of end-to-end business processes.

In general, BPMN can be used to model business processes, which are also called orchestrations. Furthermore, BPMN can be used to model choreographies and collaborations:

• Business processes (orchestrations) include:
  • Private business processes

    Private non-executable (internal) business processes

    Private executable (internal) business processes

  • Public business processes
• Choreographies
• Collaborations, which can include
  • Processes and/or
  • Choreographies

In most cases, as in this book, BPMN is used as a standard notation designed to model most kinds...