The BPM standards landscape: confusion and evolution

Table of Contents

Key messages

• There has been some consolidation
• The situation remains fairly complicated and fluid
• BPMN may steal BPEL' s thunder
• XPDL will not go away anytime soon

BPMN, the ' other' key BPM standard

• Overview
• A young specification with a complicated background
• Caught in the web of OMG' s standard efforts
• A difficult relationship to BPEL

XPDL, the long distance runner

• Modelling tool to execution engine interface
• WfMC and XDPL struggle for relevance
• XPDL vs. BPDM and BPEL

Appendix - BPMN components

• Process types
• Process constructs