Catalog of OMG Business
Modeling Specifications
This page provides a catalog of OMG Business Modeling specifications.
Specifications are listed alphabetically.
Description of Catalog Entries
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| Specification Name: |
Business
Motivation Model (BMM) |
| Description: |
The Business
Motivation Model specification provides a scheme or structure for
developing, communicating, and managing business plans in an organized
manner. Specifically, the Business Motivation Model does all of the
following:
• It identifies factors that motivate the establishing of business
plans.
• It identifies and defines the elements of business plans.
• It indicates how all these factors and elements inter-relate.
Among these elements are those that provide
governance for and guidance to the business — Business Policies and
Business Rules. |
| Keywords: |
concept, enterprise, fact, fact type,
necessity, noun concept, verb concept |
| Latest / past specifications: |
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| Related OMG Specifications: |
SBVR, UML
(non-normative), XMI |
| OMG Cross Reference: |
Domain
Specifications |
| Related Industry Standards: |
|
| Specification Name: |
Business
Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) |
| Description: |
Business
people are very comfortable with visualizing business processes in a
flow-chart format. There are thousands of business analysts studying
the way companies work and defining business processes with simple
flow charts. This creates a technical gap between the format of the
initial design of business processes and the format of the languages,
such as BPEL4WS, that will execute these business processes. This gap
needs to be bridged with a formal mechanism that maps the appropriate
visualization of the business processes (a notation) to the
appropriate execution format (a BPM execution language) for these
business processes.
Inter-operation of business processes at the human level, rather than
the software engine level, can be solved with standardization of the
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). BPMN provides a Business
Process Diagram (BPD), which is a Diagram designed for use by the
people who design and manage business processes. BPMN also provides a
formal mapping to an execution language of BPM Systems (BPEL4WS).
Thus, BPMN would provide a standard visualization mechanism for
business processes defined in an execution optimized business process
language. |
| Keywords: |
activity,
abstract, arbitrary cycles, artifact, association, business analyst,
business process, case, choice, choreography, collaboration,
collapsed, compensation, compound, context, discriminator, event,
exception, flow, fork, implicit termination, join, lane, merge,
milestone, parent, participant, pool, process, result, sequence,
split, swimlane, synchronization, task, token, transaction, trigger |
| Finalization
Information: |
|
Current version: 2.0
- Beta 1 |
Past Versions: 1.2
|
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| Related OMG Specifications: |
UML
(non-normative) |
| OMG Cross Reference: |
Domain
Specifications |
| Related Industry Standards: |
BPEL4WS 1.1,
http://www.ebpml.org/bpel4ws.htm |
| Specification Name: |
Semantics of Business
Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) |
| Description: |
This specification defines the vocabulary and
rules for documenting the semantics of business vocabulary, business
facts, and business rules; as well as an XMI schema for the interchange of
business vocabularies and business rules among organizations and between
software tools. |
| Keywords: |
business modeling, business vocabulary,
business rules |
| Revision
Information: |
|
| Latest / past specifications: |
|
Current version: 1.0 |
Past
versions: n/a
|
|
| Related OMG Specifications: |
BMM, CWM,
MOF, UML,
XMI |
| OMG Cross Reference: |
Domain Specifications |
| Related Industry Standards: |
BRML;
ORM; OWL;
RDF; RuleML;
SRML; SWRL;
ISO: 1087-1,
704-2000, 10241, & 12620 Terminology; 11179 Metadata Registry;
12620 & 13250-2 Topic Maps; 13211 Prolog; 17115 Health Informatics
- Vocabulary for Terminological System; 24707 Common Logic; 2788 &
5964 Thesaurus;
ISO
N458 Topic Map Constraint Language |
| Specification Name: |
Workflow
Management Facility |
| Description: |
Standard
interfaces for workflow execution control, monitoring, and
interoperability between workflows defined and managed independently
of each other. The interfaces are based on a model of workflow
objects, which includes their relationships and dependencies with
requesters, assignments, and resources. |
| Domain: |
cross-domain |
| Keywords: |
business
object, pattern, process data, process enactment, process monitoring,
workflow |
| Latest / past specifications: |
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| Contact Information: |
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| Related OMG Specifications: |
CORBA/IIOP,
Naming Service, Notification
Service, Time
Service, Trading
Service |
| OMG Cross Reference: |
Domain Specifications |
| Related Industry Standards: |
WfMC-TC-1003; WfMC-TC-1009;
WfMC-TC-1012; WfMC TC-1015 |
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