Table of contents

Getting started

Getting started

User interface overview

Business process diagram editor

Artifacts view

Outline view

Properties view

Reviews view

Edit menu

Perspectives

Palette

Working with examples

Tutorial: Creating a BPMN model from a BPEL artifact

Tutorial: Running a simulation

Tutorial: Modeling a BPEL process

Concepts

Introduction

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

Simulation

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS)

Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

Tasks

Importing business process models

Working with business process models

Creating a new model

Creating a sub-process

Editing a process model diagram

Editing properties

Working with Artifacts view

Automating business processes

Customizing a document template

Changing diagram defaults

Publishing process models

Customizing user-defined properties

Formatting a business process diagram

Aligning diagram objects

Finding text

Printing

Managing changes

Tracking changes

Rolling back changes

Reporting

Generating business process documents

Generating an image file

Customizing a template

Designing a new report using BIRT report designer

Creating an XML data source

Simulating and analyzing simulation output

Setting up a simulation project

Specifying simulation properties

Specifying KPI and KPI variables

Running a simulation

Analyzing a simulation result

Analyzing process models using web services

Validating a model

Transforming to a BPEL model

Reference

Business process diagram objects

Processes

Goals

Key Performance Indicators

Messages

Activities

Sub-processes

Events

Triggers

Boundary events

Gateways

Connections

Associations

Message Flows

Sequence Flows

Artifacts

Annotations

Data objects

Groups

Swimlanes

Pools

Lanes

Assignments

WSDL objects

Data objects

Web service properties