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BPMessentials.com is your learning resource for business process management. You can find free reports, articles, and presentations that will help you get started in BPM.

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BPMN Training

BPMN is the clear de facto standard for business process modeling, especially when the ultimate goal is a process implementation solution. BPM Suites from Oracle, SAP, Tibco, Lombardi, Savvion, SoftwareAG/webmethods, Adobe, Vitria, and Sungard are BPMN-based, and more are moving to the standard. But few modelers know how to use it correctly or effectively. BPMessentials shows you how. Get started today with our BPMN training, either online/on-demand via Flash video, or live in a classroom setting. We offer hands-on exercises, and certification that demonstrates mastery.
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Training Version 3.0

NEW! Training Version 3.0 Now Available, Based on BPMN 1.1

Based on feedback from hundreds of students, we've updated the online training modules: Less talk, more exercises, better organized, more examples. Stronger emphasis on methodology and best practices, additional diagram patterns for flow control, events, and exception handling, with printable cheat sheets. How to validate your models and fix the errors. And beyond the rules, the art of process modeling, tips for making diagrams clear and expressive, and organizing complex end-to-end models.

Students who started on v2.1 have the option of switching to v3.0.

Information to Get Started in BPM

BPMN and the Business Process Expert

The ability to model processes correctly and effectively using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has become the critical must-have skill for the business process expert. This six-part series shows you how.

The Business Process Expert and the Future of BPM

BPM's success requires a new role in the organization, standing at the crossroads of business and IT -- the Business Process Expert (BPX), translating a business description of the business process into process models that are not just business requirements but the foundation of executable process implementations. New modeling standards like BPMN now make this possible, but to be effective, the BPX needs training in how to use BPMN effectively. Watch the webcast.

Bruce Silver's BPMS Report series

BPM is more than modeling.  BPM Suites let you execute your process model - automate the workflow, integrate external systems, enforce business rules, and monitor process performance.  These free reports evaluate today's  leading offerings.  Click here to download.
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Why Our Training Is Unsurpassed

  • Hands-on with a tool - Process Modeler for Visio from itp-commerce
  • Lots of exercises and quizzes
  • Individualized feedback on mail-in exercises... and certification of demonstrated mastery
  • Comprehensive - 6 hours... plus the exercises
  • Simulation analysis in depth
  • Focus on best practices
    • Diagram clarity and expressiveness
    • Standardizing on diagram patterns for flow control, events, and exceptions
    • Hierarchical modeling methodology
    • Model validation and correction
    • Organizing complex models

Process Modeling With BPMN a joint production of Bruce Silver Associates and itp commerce ltd. Content copyright Bruce Silver Associates 2007. All rights reserved