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BPMN 101: Three Ways a Process Starts

Students in my BPMN Method and Style training are often befuddled by how to start a process.  I see Conditional events, Error events, all kinds of things.  No, stop!  While the BPMN spec provides many different types of start events, only three of them are relevant to the non-executable flows most modelers are trying to [...]

By |2021-07-14T12:48:43-07:00July 14th, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

Executable BPMN: User Tasks

In my previous posts on Business Automation, my focus has been on straight-through processes, since this is the sweet spot of the Trisotech platform.  But even there, occasionally you need some human input, and that is where User tasks come in.  User interaction is not a primary consideration in Trisotech BPMN, so the User task [...]

By |2021-06-10T11:38:23-07:00June 10th, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

What is DMN?

Over the past year I've written a number of posts on specific aspects of DMN, but many readers may be unfamiliar with this standard and how they might benefit by learning to use it.  In recent months, I've discovered new ways of using it myself, so even experienced modelers may learn something from this post. [...]

By |2021-05-31T15:02:14-07:00May 31st, 2021|DMN|0 Comments

DMN: Validating Data Input

Last month we discussed a valuable low-code implementation pattern using Business Automation Services to create event-driven database apps in the cloud.  Upon receipt of a business event - a REST API call - the pattern involves a straight-through process that retrieves various database records, calls a decision service to generate additional records, and then inserts [...]

By |2023-10-25T13:54:01-07:00April 29th, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

Business Automation Services in Fintech

In client engagements, I am seeing growing interest in what Trisotech calls Business Automation as a Service.  I am seeing it particularly in financial services, but I expect it applies in health care and other verticals as well.  Financial services, for so long reliant on legacy applications, is now racing to create new cloud-based apps [...]

By |2021-03-29T08:35:02-07:00March 29th, 2021|BPMN, DMN|0 Comments

Repeating Activities in BPMN`

BPMN has a way to say an activity should be performed more than once.  In fact, it has multiple ways, and students in my BPMN Method and Style training sometimes get them confused.  This post will clear things up. A Loop activity is like a Do-While loop in programming.  It means perform the activity once [...]

By |2021-03-02T13:07:34-08:00March 2nd, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

Using Messages in Executable BPMN

In BPMN, the most common way information is provided to a process from an external source is via a message.  Incoming messages are indicated in the diagram by a dashed arrow connector called a message flow, with its tail on a black-box pool or a message node in another process pool and its arrow on [...]

By |2021-02-22T13:03:43-08:00February 22nd, 2021|BPMN|0 Comments

XML and JSON in DMN Models

A critical piece of what makes DMN accessible to business users is its expression language FEEL.  FEEL variable names are business-friendly.  Because they are simply the labels of the shapes in the Decision Requirements Diagram (DRD), FEEL names may contain spaces and other punctuation not allowed by other expression languages.  OK, you already know this. [...]

By |2021-01-04T14:53:07-08:00January 4th, 2021|DMN|0 Comments

BPMN: Database Operations with OData

BPMN's advocates - myself included - like to proclaim that the language allows non-programmers to define executable processes themselves.  But that's only one-third true.  Yes, in BPMN 2.0 the executable process steps through the shapes of the diagram as drawn by the modeler.  That in itself was a monumental achievement a decade ago.  "What you [...]

By |2020-12-02T10:31:26-08:00December 2nd, 2020|BPMN|1 Comment

BPMN 101: What Is a Process?

It's now 10 years since finalization of BPMN 2.0, the acknowledged standard business process description language.  BPMN has been widely adopted, by tool vendors and end users alike, but there are still some folks just discovering it for the first time.  Because of BPMN's outward similarity to traditional swimlane flowcharts, many of those users think [...]

By |2020-10-30T13:55:08-07:00October 30th, 2020|BPMN|0 Comments

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