If you do not have much experience with process modeling, BPMN, or Business Process Modeling Notation is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in work flow. BPMN is based on flowcharting and its goal is to support business business process management for technical and business users by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users yet able to represent complex process semantics. BPMN is really a tool to make processes easily understood by business analysts, technical developers, business managers, anyone who manages a business or system process. BPMN is intended to bridge the gap between business process design and implementation.
So in the past if you wanted to put together a BPMN process you would have to use an app or a Visio stencil.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bpmnpop/files/bpmnpop/BPMN_for_VISIO%200.6/
http://www.workflow-research.de/Downloads/BPMN/Frapu-BPMN_Template(v1.1).zip
According to this MSDN blog Microsoft Visio 2010 will include a BPMN diagram in their templates.
The BPMN template contains 5 stencils of BPMN shapes, BPMN basic shapes, BPMN events, BPMN activities, BPMN gateways, BPMN connecting objects.
The BPMN template will use a lot of new features in Visio 2010 that should make building diagrams easier. We are looking forward to seeing this in the next version of office.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Modeling_Notation
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/03/bpmn-support-in-visio-2010.aspx
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