Concepts

SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) enables you to model business processes. BPM is part of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment and represents the process layer of a composite application. The following graphic shows the purpose of each layer and the offered technologies:

For more information about the different layers, see Composite Application Layers on http://help.sap.com.

This section describes the basic concepts of process modeling with the process composer. The process composer is the design time of SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management .

For more information about the components of SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management , in particular about the process composer, see Modeling Processes With Process Composer .

In the following, important terms used in the process composer are explained. The following aspects are covered:

• Processes

• Projects and Processes in the Process Composer

• Granularity of a Process

• Process Roles

• Process Modeling Approaches

• Using BPMN Process Models ( Pools and Lanes , Events , Activities , Gateways )