BPM Acronyms

A

ABC

Activity Based Costing

ACORD

Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development

APQC

American Productivity & Quality Center

ARIS

Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

B

BAM

Business Activity Monitoring

BMM

Business Motivation Model, OMG specification

BPA

Business Process Analysis

Business Process Architecture

BPD

Business Process Definition

Business Process Diagram

BPDM

Business Process Definition Metamodel, OMG specification

BPEL

Short for WS-BPEL. Web Services Business Process Execution Language, OASIS standard

BPEL4WS

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services

BPM

Business Process Management

BPMM

Business Process Maturity Model, OMG specification

BPMN

Business Process Model & Notation, OMG specification

BPMS

Business Process Management Suite / System

BPR

Business Process Re-engineering

BPSim

Business Process Simulation framework, OMG specification

BSC

Balanced Scorecard

C

CCOR

Customer Chain Operations Reference, SCC framework

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

CoBIT

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology, ISACA framework

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

CSF

Critical Success Factor

D

DCOR

Design Chain Operations Reference, SCC framework

DFSS

Design for Six Sigma

DMADV

Define, Measure, Analyse, Design and Verify

DMAIC

Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control

DMN

Decision Model and Notation, OMG specification

DPMO

Defects Per Million Opportunities

DRD

Decision Requirements Diagram, DMN

DRG

Decision Requirements Graph, DMN

E

EDM

Enterprise Decision Management

EPC

Event-Driven Process Chain

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ESB

Enterprise Service Bus

eTOM

Enhanced Telecom Operations Map, TM Forum framework

F

FMEA

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

G

GRC

Governance, Risk and Compliance

I

IDEF

Integrated Definition Language

IFML

Interaction Flow Modeling Language, OMG specification

ISACA

Information Systems Audit and Control Association

ITIL

Information Technology Infrastructure Library

J

JIT

Just In Time

K

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

L

LCL

Lower Control Limit

O

OASIS

Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OCEB

OMG Certified Expert in BPM, OMG certification

OEE

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OMG

Object Management Group

OSM

Organisation Structure Metamodel, OMG specification

P

PFC

Process Classification Framework, APQC framework

PPR

Production Rules Representation, OMG specification.

Q

QFD

Quality Function Deployment

R

ROI

Return On Investment

S

SBVR

Semantics Business Vocabulary and Rules, OMG specification

SCC

Supply Chain Council

SCOR

Supply Chain Operations Reference, SCC framework

SIPOC

Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs and Customers

T

TPS

Toyota Production System

TQM

Total Quality Management

U

UCL

Upper Control Limit

UML

United Modeling Language

V

VCG

Value Chain Group

VRM

Value Reference Model, VCG framework

W

WfMC

Workflow Management Coalition

WfMS

Workflow Management System

WS

Web Services, OASIS standard

WS-BPEL

Web Services Business Process Execution Language, OASIS standard

WS-HT

Web Services Human Task, OASIS standard