Explore the insights on BPMN and EPC from industry expert Ivo Velitchkov, as he navigates the strengths and weaknesses of these business process notations for effective modeling decisions.
2011-03-20 17:41:18
A new blog post of What’s Your Baseline was published on Mar 20, 2011:
Overview:
This blog explores the differences between BPMN and EPC notations in business process management. It discusses their expressive powers, readability, efficiency, and integration with enterprise architecture, providing insights into making informed decisions for modeling languages.
Core content:
- BPMN offers over a hundred modeling constructs, focusing on workflow and collaboration, while EPC has a limited set of five control flow elements.
- EPC supports resource assignments for activities better than BPMN, which lacks native support for multiple resources per activity.
- In the context of enterprise architecture, EPC maintains stronger connections to organizational units, roles, and objectives compared to BPMN.
Learnings:
- Understand the primary strengths and weaknesses of BPMN and EPC to choose the appropriate notation for specific process modeling needs.
- Assess how the choice of notation can impact the clarity and effectiveness of communication among non-experts in process modeling.
- Recognize the potential for comprehensive integration of process models with enterprise architecture when using EPC.
The original content was published in English.
