When will the industry standards for Business Process Modeling converge?
The linguistic divergence of Business Process Modeling languages is problematic for efficient communication and interoperability, since it perpetuates a Tower-of-Babel syndrome among the various business stakeholders. Since the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) merged with the OMG in 2005 there has been some hope that BPMN and UML Activity diagram notation will be merged in the near future. However, given the OMG’s poor track record regarding interoperability of modeling standards, such as UML 2.0, it is unlikely that this will happen soon.
The linguistic divergence of Business Process Modeling languages continues to be problematic. Since the BPMI merged with the OMG in 2005 there has been some hope that BPMN and UML Activity diagram notation may be merged in the near future. However, given the OMG’s track record on modeling standards, such as UML 2.0, it is unlikely that this will happen soon.