BPMN stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. It is the new standard for modeling business processes and Web services from the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI - www.bpmi.org) which has now merged with The Object Management Group (OMG - www.omg.org). BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture world called Business Process Management (BPM). Business Process Management is concerned with managing change to improve business processes.

This paper introduces the new BPMN standard, illustrating how it is used to model business processes and Web services. This paper also provides details on how BPMN fits within BPM, BPEL's, BPMS's, UML, and other new industry standards and initiatives.