Towards Selecting Among Business Process Modeling Methodologies1

The problem of selecting the business process modeling methodology best suited for the business process modeling task at hand is often hampered by the conditions under which the selection is made. In this paper we sketch the foundations of a framework for selecting business process modeling methods. We base this framework on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. We therefore use a hierarchy of characteristics of business process modeling methodologies for our selection approach. To demonstrate how our approach works we discuss its application to two business process modeling tasks. We have developed a software tool that implements our framework. We describe this tool briefly in this paper.