S-BPM as an Alternative to BPMN in the Context of Low-Code: Applicability, User Experience and Transformation from S-BPM to BPMN
摘要
This paper summarizes the results of a master‘s thesis [1], which was written at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Cologne in cooperation with mgm technology partners. The goal of the thesis was to analyze the issues and benefits of BPMN and S-BPM and to determine the most suitable approach for business process modeling, especially in the context of low-code. Both notations were found to have limitations – BPMN is quite complex and hard to understand for domain experts, while S-BPM lacks tool support. Therefore, a third approach of combining both notations has been developed with the goal of transforming S-BPM models created by domain experts into BPMN for direct execution in a BPMN-based architecture. As this approach is also not the ideal solution, future work should focus on improving tool support for S-BPM. However, S-BPM has several advantages that make it suitable for modeling business processes where people and their knowledge play an important role.