ITM 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: System Context Diagram, Process Modeling, Purchase Order
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Business process modelling notation (bpmn: omg (object management group) standard, supported by many tools: Ibm websphere business modeler: bizagi process modeler, signavio (http://www. signavio. com/, tibco business studio (free download, quite large, aris, oracle bpa, business process visual architect (visual paradigm, progress savvion business modeller. Bpmn from 10,000 miles: a bpmn process model is a graph consisting of four types of elements (among others): Confirm order: this simple order management process is triggered by the reception of a purchase. The purchase order has to be checked against the stock re the availability of the product(s) requested. In this diagram, plain gateways are used to denote points were the flow of control splits into multiple paths, and point where multiple paths converge into a single one. We can note that the first gateway in this diagram, denotes a point where one among multiple paths needs to be chosen.