Tools of business process modelling

Business Modelling. Languages and Tools

The paper provides an overview of business modelling techniques both at language and tool level. The basic elements of some most popular business modelling languages are briefly outlined, including the GRAPES-BM language developed by IMCS, University of Latvia. The paper presents also the basic principles, how metamodel based generic modelling techniques can be used for supporting several model...

Accessible Business Process Modelling

This article concerns with the accessibility of Business process modelling tools (BPMo tools) and business process modelling languages (BPMo languages). Therefore the reader will be introduced to business process management and the authors' motivation behind this inquiry. Afterwards, the paper will reflect problems when applying inaccessible BPMo tools. To illustrate these problems the authors ...

Modelling Business Process Performance

We present a business process performance evaluation approach based on a hierarchy of interacting analytical performance models from semanticoriented key performance indicator model through to the resource allocation optimisation model. Discussion of the human-centric process performance evaluation supported by the state-of-the-art presentation provides the motivation for our research work. Pre...

What Makes Business Processes Special ? An evaluation framework for modelling languages and tools in Business Process

In order to gain insight in tools and languages for business process modelling (BPM) and business process redesign (BPR), we present a framework for the evaluation of such languages and tools. The framework evaluates the quality of tools and languages for supporting all stages in a BPR project. It consists of four dimensions: functionality, ease of use, support of redesign trajectories, and gen...

Sequence Constraints in Business Modelling and Business Process Modelling