Process Modeling

Creating the model using the BPIOAI modeling tool generally means drawing a diagram that depicts the processes, resources (systems and people), logic, the movement of information, and the sharing of application services between the systems. If the process becomes too complex, subprocesses might have to be defined and even reused from model to model. For example, a credit check may be a complex subprocess that is included within many separate processes.

Drawing a process using a BPIOAI modeling tool is simply a matter of selecting items (e.g., resources, processes, and data) from a palette and pasting them on a diagram. Once the diagram is in place, all that remains to be done is to define the process's connections and sequence.

Using this model, we can further define the BPIOAI logic, or the process logic, that is being layered on top of the existing process logic.

Each BPIOAI tool approaches this generic description of activities in very different ways. As time goes on, de facto approaches will emerge and each tool will function in a consistent manner according to a commonly accepted approach.