Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner

Audience

• Business Analysts
• Business Modelers
• Business Area Experts
• Data analysts

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Design, create, and edit a business process model
• Define and use business rules in a business process model
• Decompose a business process
• Create composite process diagrams
• Convert a business process diagram to a composite process
• Check and verify a model
• Reverse engineer EBxmls
• Generate EBxml BPSS
• Print and Report on BPMs

Prerequisites

Experience using Microsoft Windows or another graphical user interface, Exposure to basic business process modeling concepts, Exposure to flow charting or process modeling techniques, entity relationship (ER) modeling.

Course Outline

Introduction to PD and Process Modeling

• PowerDesigner Overview
• Shared PowerDesigner Features
• PowerDesigner Model Types
• Business Process Modeling Overview
• Goals Of The Business Process Modeler

Moving To Other PowerDesigner Models

• How PowerDesigner BPMs Are Used In Other Domains
• Moving To The CDM
• Moving To The OOM
• Other BPM Usage Issues
• Conclusion

Designing a Business Process

• Decomposing A Process
• Creating Additional BPM Diagrams
• Creating A Composite Process Diagram
• Designing Relations Between Objects In The Composite Process
• Navigating From The Composite Process To The Underlying Processes
• Converting A Business Process Diagram To A Composite Process
• Creating Message Formats
• Defining Actions On Processes
• Defining Conditions On Flows
• Using Business Rules In The BPM
• Using Organization Units And Resources

Model

• What Is A BPM?
• Why Build A BPM?
• The Domain Of Analysis
• BPM Features in PowerDesigner
• Starting PowerDesigner
• PowerDesigner Workspace
• Creating A New BPM
• Defining BPM Properties
• The Objects In A BPM
• Using The Tools In The Tool Palette
• Using Business Rules In The BPM
• Defining BPM Preferences And Options
• Saving The BPM Model

Working with the BPM

• Organizing The BPM Diagram
• Laying Out the Diagram
• Checking The Model
• Resolving Model Errors
• Printing The Model
• Comparing BPMs
• Merging BPMs
• Working with Version 6 PAM Models
• Generating the EBxml BPSS
• Reverse Engineering EBxm

Business Process Modeling with PowerDesigner / DEV322