Model Your Business Processes Like You're in 2015!Adrian Mos, Xerox Research

Business Domain

Business Process

SOA

N x

Typical BP Modelling

Domain-Specific Process Modelling

Generic Processes

• BPMN language

• Process semantics is diluted

• Natively understood by the

BPMS (not necessarily fully

portable though)

• Hard to enforce concept-level

SLAs and constraints

• Hard to reuse at all

granularities

Domain-Specific Processes

• Specific language (graphical or

textual)

• Process semantics is strong

• Require conversion to BPMN to

be used in BPMS

• Easy to operate at business

concept-level (SLAs etc)

• Facilitate reuse of business

concepts

Generic Processes (BPMN)

Domain-Specific Processes

Textual

• Xtext-based for instance

• Appropriate for certain fields

such as legal processes

• Can be used for editing

details in graphical processes

(policies, rules)

Graphical

• Sirius-based for instance

• Appropriate where control

flow is important and layered-

views are useful

From Modelling to Execution and Back

Domain-Specific Process Environment

BPMN 2 Editor

BPMS or SOA Specific Editor

BPMS Execution Engine

SOA Environment

Landscape

Mangrove BPMN2

Modeler

Monitoring Approach

From Design to Execution and Back

Monitoring at Work

BPMS Execution Engine SOA Environment

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Domain Specific Monitoring

Cy Cz

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S1, 30

S2, 10

S3, 75

Ax, 30

S1, 7

S2, 10

Az1, 43

Az2, 28

Business Processes using Domain Concepts

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BP1

BP2

BP3

BP4

BP5

BP6

SOA Runtime

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S6

S4

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SLA and Monitoringat the concept levelacross the process collection

DEMO

Thank Youadrian.mos@xerox.com