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Business Automation Services in Fintech

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

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 [...]

Repeating Activities in BPMN`

By |2021-03-02T13:07:34-08:00March 2nd, 2021|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 [...]

Using Messages in Executable BPMN

By |2021-02-22T13:03:43-08:00February 22nd, 2021|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 [...]

BPMN: Database Operations with OData

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

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 [...]

BPMN 101: What Is a Process?

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

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 [...]

BPMN Decoded: Data Flow

By |2020-07-27T13:35:44-07:00July 27th, 2020|BPMN|

Last time I talked about how information is passed to a BPMN process from outside.  All modelers need to understand that.  This month I'm going to talk about data inside a BPMN process.  If you are a typical process modeler, this is something you can usually safely ignore, because it pertains only to executable models.  [...]

BPMN Basics: Providing Information to a Process

By |2020-06-22T13:18:39-07:00June 22nd, 2020|BPMN|

One aspect of BPMN that usually surprises newbies is attention to what entities or actors are inside the process vs outside.  In traditional flowcharting, for example, the Customer is often represented as a swimlane in the Seller's process, but not so in BPMN.  A BPMN process represents one participant's view of the steps, that of [...]

Helping the Mortgage Industry Go Digital

By |2019-11-18T10:52:13-08:00November 18th, 2019|BPMN, DMN|

Fannie Mae is one of two major Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs) underpinning the residential mortgage market in the USA.  They supply liquidity to the system by purchasing mortgages from lenders and repackaging them as interest-paying securities sold to investors.  Without them, we wouldn't have the low-rate long-term fixed rate loans that so many home buyers [...]

EU-Rent Customer Support with Method and Style

By |2019-11-04T09:21:16-08:00November 4th, 2019|BPMN|

When BPMN 2.0 was developed a decade ago, the task force’s primary goal was making BPMN models directly executable on an automation engine, something that wasn’t exactly possible with BPMN 1.x.  Consequently, the rules of the BPMN spec focused almost exclusively on “operational semantics.”  In doing so, they lost sight of what the majority of [...]

Updated Kindle Editions

By |2019-03-04T15:56:10-08:00March 4th, 2019|BPMN, DMN|

My luck with publishing for Kindle has not been good.  Most of my books' negative comments on Amazon are specific to Kindle issues, but since the paper and Kindle versions are linked, it reflects badly on the books overall.  My first book BPMN Method and Style tried to use the original Kindle reflowable format.  Even [...]

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