ActiveVOS 7.0 has a new design canvas that uses the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 specification to create executable BPEL processes.

BPMN 2.0 meets the most basic requirements for BA, says the BPM Institute paper's author, Ralph Whittle, a strategic IT and business consultant and author.

BPMN 2.0 can be used on three different levels - descriptive, analytical and executable. If we assume that businesses will start from level 1 comprising 10 main icons, that can’t be too complex.

Alfresco has just released version 5.0 GA of the Activiti engine, an Apache2 licensed BPMN 2.0 implementation. InfoQ talked with project lead Tom Baeyens on the new release. Tom is also the creator an ...