We know that Big players have diferent “atributes” for an BPEL. And because of this the ARIS have an transformation for BPEL to Biztalk and BPEL to ORACLE for example. I think that BPMN 2 will eliminate the “diferent” BPEL’s. In ARIS for you reach in a BPEL model you need to transform an model EPC to BPEL, because the ARIS don’t have a transformation of BPMN into BPEL.
So the question is: Anyone knows if IDS-Scheer pretends to make this transformation(BPMN to BPEL)?if Will make, is in BPMN 1.x or BPMN 2?When this come? Anyone knows anyway to transform BPMN in BPEL using ARIS and other tools? My think is that if you modeling in ARIS with BPMN and the BPMN don’t transformate to an BPEL, you are modeling in BPMN because is cute and is the tendency of the marketing, because the EPC will certainly remove your needs. That’s why i make this question...3 Replies
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This question touches different aspects, let me try to anwer all of them separately:
1. IDS, like other vendors, expects, that the new interchange format coming with BPMN 2 might replace existing standards like BPEL or XPDL. But this will take a longer time and so the next years there will be support of both BPMN and BPEL/XPDL in parallel.
2. With the ARIS Process Automation Architect a new transformation technology has been introduced to the ARIS platform. In the past transformations between different model types were written based on our scripting interface. The new technology makes it much easier for everyone to implement hiw own transformations. This new technology can be used to implement customer or project specific transformations, also the mentioned ones in the question.
3. In ARIS we divide between different abstraction layers of process modeling. Processes that are completely independent from automation or technical aspects, should be further modeled with EPC. If a process should be automized but described on an abstract technical level (platform independent), BPMN has to be used, because BPMN is already close to IT and therefore ideally suitable for that purpose. This technically enriched process layer now can be transformed and exported based on standards like BPEL or XPDL. Of course also the new interchange format for BPMN will be supported.
The EPC2BPMN transformation already exists (BPMN 1.x at the moment, has to be converted to BPMN 2 when this becomes available). A BPMN based export to XPDL will follow soon and also BPMN2BPEL is on the list. Basis for all these transformation will be BPMN 2. But a concrete timeline cannot be given so far. -
In the current ARIS 7.1, are these transformations (EPC2BPMN, BPMN2BPEL - when available, etc.) possible with just ARIS Architect or is some other ARIS Product / module required?
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All BPMN models can't be transformed into BPEL automaticly because the metalanguages of bpel and bpmn are different!
So untill now there have not existed any Platform or software that can do bpmn2bpel transformation for all bpmn models automaticly.
bu for some of the model it can be done in some platform like BPMN2BPEL eclipse plugin for BPMN 1.x.