1. BPM and BizFlow
(Buisness Process Managment)

2. Buisness
Activity
Business
Activity
Business
Activity
Business
Activity
Buisness Transaction
(An interaction between buisnesses and their customers)
Ex:Buying NewsPaper
Gateways
Events
None Start Event None End Event
A Buisness Transaction has 3 parts :
1)Buisness Activities:(Unity of work performed inside a process)
2)Events(Can be internal or external to the Buisness Activities)
3)Gateways(Connect the Buisness Activities)

3. Buisness
Activity
Participant : a person participating in the Buisness Activity
1)Normal Activity : the interaction with a Participant (ex:Filling a Form)
2)Sub-Process Activity : Is a process inside the main process
3)Agent Activity : A background process communicating with the Buisness process
4)Compoment Activity : interact with Enterprise Java Beans or web services
5)SQL Activity : access to a database
6)Mail Activity : sending an email
Events
1)None Start Event : the event that starts every Buisness Process
2)Timer Intermediate Event : the event that leads to a new activity after a
deadline occurs on an activity
3)Error Intermediate Event : the event that leads to a new activity after an
error occurs on an activity(ex: on an SQL Activity or Mail Activity)
4)None End Event : the event that ends every Buisness Process
Inside the
activity

4. Gateways
1)XOR Gateway : used as a decision node for a Response Group(ex:accept or reject)
2)OR Gateway : used to do one or more activities based on a decision(ex: a Process
parameter values)
3)Complex Gateway : used to continue the process if one or more activities(but not all
activities) has been accomplished (ex: 2/3 activities)
4)AND Gateway : used to do multiple activities in parallel or to continue the process if
the multiple activities are all accomplished
Response Group : a group of responses involved in a participant decision (ex : accept or reject)
Process Variable : a variable defined for a Buisness Process
3 Process Variable Scopes:
1)Global Process Variables : can be exhanged with Forms and used by all processes at the same time
2)Process Definition Variables : can be exchanged between all the running instances of the same Buisness Process
3)Process Instance Variables : can be exchanged between all the activities of the same Buisness Process

5. Application Server
BizFLow Server
Database Server
Application Application Application Application
BizFlow Architecture
HTTP/HTTPS
TCP/IP
JDBC Native
JDBC

6. Local Defined Process
BizFlow Process Studio
Project Team Members
Remote Defined Process(After being Published it is running on the BizFlow Server)
Reference to the applications running on the Application Server
Remote Running Process(After being Initiated from the client interface)
Remote Terminated Process(After being executed on the BizFlow Server)
Permissions on the Project Team Members and the groups to which they belong

7. BizCoves(on the client interface)
BizCove
View (is a
View with a
Layout)
BizCoves(Partial Views)
1)Initiate
BizCove
2)Workliste
BizCove
3)Monitor
BizCove
4)Report
BizCove