We have seen how BPMN can be used by business analysts primarily to model business processes. The notation allows a user to represent the business processes graphically, which is easily comprehensible, and allows a consistent representation of the organization's business processes.
This chapter will discuss two important aspects that help in realizing a process from being just a diagram to something that is implementable. We can divide our discussion into:
Business Process Analysis (BPA) using Simulation: We will cover BPA using the Oracle BPA tool for simulation in order to analyze business processes for process improvement. This activity allows for deriving the most optimum process model before its implementation cycle.
Business Process Transformation—BPMN to BPEL mapping: While we design the business processes at the abstract level, we decompose the business processes into details using multiple process levels with increased...