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.

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: