Awesome BPM

A curated list of awesome Business Process Management (BPM) tools, engines, frameworks, resources and other awesomeness.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a discipline to improve the performance of a company by taking advantage of explicit business processes.

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Contents

• Alliances
• Assessments
• Books
• BPM Platforms/Suites
• Certifications
• Comparisons
• Engines
• Guidelines
• Learning BPM
• Methods
• Mining
• Modeling Tools
  • Supportive Tooling
• Monitoring Tools
• Process Libraries
• Standards
• Testing/Validation

Alliances

• Enterprise BPM Alliance
• Workflow Management Coalition

Assessments

• BPM Maturity Model - Measures the majurity of BPM in a company.

Books

• Bruce Silver: BPMN Method and Style, Second Edition, with BPMN Implementer's Guide, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0982368114 - Great book on BPMN 2.0, recommended reference regarding modelling methodoligy and style.
• Bruce Silver: DMN Method and Style: The Practitioner's Guide to Decision Modeling with Business Rules, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-0982368152 - Follows the same approach like in Silver's BPMN book, but for DMN.
• Dirk Slama; Ralph Nelius: Enterprise BPM: Erfolgsrezepte für unternehmensweites Prozessmanagement. dpunkt, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-3898646871 - Awesome German book introducing the basic concepts on BPM.
• Frank Leymann, Dieter Roller: Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques. Prentice Hall PTR, 2000. ISBN 0–13–021753–0 - This is the first book on enterprise-grade workflows. The concepts are still valid todday.
• Jakob Freund: Real-Life BPMN: Using BPMN 2.0 to Analyze, Improve, and Automate Processes in Your Company. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1502972323 - Describes using BPMN 2.0 to work on processes in companies.
• Jakob Freund, Bernd Rücker: Praxishandbuch BPMN 2.0. Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG; Auflage: 4., aktualisierte Auflage, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-3446442559 - Awesome German book on using the executable part of BPMN.
• Keith D. Swenson: Mastering the Unpredictable: How Adaptive Case Management Will Revolutionize the Way That Knowledge Workers Get Things Done. Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-929652-12-2 - Presents foundations on adaptive case management.
• Marlon Dumas, Marcello La Rosa, Jan Mendling, Hajo A. Reijers: Fundamentals of Business Process Management. ISBN: 978-3-642-33142-8 - An awesome text book teaching the background of BPM. It is used throughout the world in BPM lectures as basis.
• Tammo van Lessen, Daniel Lübke, Jörg Nitzsche: Geschäftsprozesse automatisieren mit BPEL. dpunkt, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-3898646703 - Awesome German book on making workflow happen using BPEL.
• Mathias Weske: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures, 2nd ed. 2012, XV, 403 p. 300 illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-642-28615-5 - Foundation on business process management ranging from theory to practical applications.

MOOCs

• BPMN Meets DMN: Business Process and Decision Modeling (openhpi, Mathias Weske) - An online course showing modeling using BPMN and DMN
• Fundamentals of Business Process Management - An online course covering the topic of the book "Fundamentals of Business Process Management".

Certifications

• OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) 2

BPMN 2.0 Microservice Orchestration Engines

• ProcessMaker I/O
• zeebe

BPM Platforms/Suites

• Appian BPM - An all-in-one BPM solution, the "Leader in Low-Code BPM".
• Bonita BPM - A comprehensive BPM suite.
• Bosch SI Inubit BPM
• Bosch SI Visual Rules
• Signavio Workflow
• IBM Business Process Manager
• IBM Operational Decision Manager
• Intalio BPMS
• Intellior
• OpenText Process Suite
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12c
• Pega 7 Platform
• ProcessMaker BPM
• Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite
• Tibco Active Matrix BPM
• Edorasware
• SoftProject X4 BPM Suite

Certifications

• OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) 2

Comparisons

• BPMN Tool Matrix - Github-hosted comparison of popular BPMN 2.0 tooling.
• Tool Markt Monitor - A German survey on available BPM tooling. They update it yearly and provide a comprehensive survey and comparison of tools.

Engines

• ActiveVOS
• Activiti
• Apache ODE
• Bizagi Engine
• Camunda BPM - A production-ready BPMN engine used in many German companies, such as 1&1 Internet and Zalando.
• flowable - BPMN process engine, with accompanying DMN decision tables and CMMN case management engines, all written in Java.
• inubit BPM
• jBPM
• Onedecison (DMN)
• ProcessMaker I/O
• Awesome Workflow Engines - List of awesome workflow engines collected by @meirwah

Guidelines

• BPMN 2.0 Best Practices
• BPMN Modeling Guidelines
• Best practices in modeling
• eCH-0158: BPMN-Modellierungskonventionen für die öffentliche Verwaltung (in German)
• APQC Process Classification Framework

Learning BPM

• BPMN 2.0 Poster - Poster containing all symbols of BPMN 2.0 including a short explanation.
• BPMN Meets DMN: Business Process and Decision Modeling (openhpi, Mathias Weske) - An online course showing modeling using BPMN and DMN.
• Fundamentals of Business Process Management - An online course covering the topic of the book "Fundamentals of Business Process Management".

Methods

• Business Process Management Framework
• Behavior-driven Business Process Development with BPMN
• Workflow Patterns - NOT BPMN specific, but it does list BPMN compatibility for those patterns

Mining

• Celonis - All-in-one dashboard showing mined processes.
• Disco - Fast process mining.
• ProM Tools - The largest body of work for academic process mining.

Modeling Tools

• Aris Business Process Analysis
• Bizagi Modeler
• bpmn.io - Open-Source web-based BPMN modeler
• Cawemo - Commercial offering of the bpmn.io modeler with advanced collaboration features.
• Eclipse BPMN Modeler. Actively developed and high BPMN conformance.
• Enterprise Architect
• Fico DMN Modeler
• Gliffy
• Signavio Process Editor
• Signavio Decision Manager
• Microsoft Visio 2013
• MID Process Note
• MID Innovator for Business Analysts
• Modelio
• Trisotech
• Visual Paradigm
• Yaoqiang BPMN Editor - A desktop BPMN modelling application very close to the standard and supporting all elements.

Supportive Tooling

• BPMeter - Measure the size and structural complexity of your BPMN models through a simple Web application.
• BPMNspector-fixSeqFlow - Fixing Sequence Flow Issues in BPMN models.

Monitoring Tools

• IBM Business Monitor - Helps getting insights to data.

Process Libraries

• Signavio ITIL®2011 Process Library - ITIL®2011 Processes modeled using BPMN.

Standards

• Business Process Model And Notation (BPMN) Version 2.0 - Most-adopted BPM standard.
• Case Management Model And Notation (CMMN) 1.0 - Graphically depict case mamanagement.
• Decision Model And Notation (DMN) 1.1 - Visually depict business rules.
• Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) Version 2.0 - Well-defined execution semantics for business processes.
• WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Specification Version 1.1 - Specifies how human tasks can be integrated in BPEL with interesting concepts.
• Web Services – Human Task (WS-HumanTask) Specification Version 1.1 - Standard to describe human tasks
• XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) - Laid the groundwork for BPMN 2.0

Testing/Validation

• BenchFlow - Performance and conformance checking for BPEL and BPMN.
• betsy - Engine Test System for BPEL and BPMN.
• BPELlint - Validation tool which statically analyzes BPEL files using the statical analysis rules from the BPEL 2.0 specification. Also available as IntelliJ IDEA plugin
• BPELStats - BPELStats is a tool for calculating a variety of BPEL Metrics.
• BPELUnit - Unit testing for BPEL
• bpmnlint - Validate BPMN diagrams based on configurable lint rules
• BPMNspector - Static analysis for BPMN 2.0 process models
• BPP - The BPEL Portability Profile