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Practical Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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Data usage is another area where BPMN goes beyond its core focus of describing a process. It’s worth noting that the elements we’ll discuss in this section make it possible to show how data flows within a process, but that’s not all that IT professionals may need to model the data adequately – for example, they don’t provide support to ensure that data structures and their dependencies are represented.
It’s also worth noting that the data layer in BPMN often has a weaker level of support in IT tools – especially those for process automation – than other elements of the notation. Many process automation tools use their methods for describing the data in a process, so the data modeling concepts included in the BPMN specification are often treated only as documentation and have no impact on how the process is executed. There are even situations where automation tools remove data...