Process Modelling with Signavio (BPMN 2.0)

Explore SAP Signavio overview and its four modules—process manager, SAP Signavio Process Governance, process intelligence, and collaboration hub—to visualize, optimize and execute business processes with real data insights.

Explore BPM use cases, including process automation to streamline data entry and approvals, and real-time monitoring with key performance indicators and reporting to boost efficiency.

Explore Signavio process manager to create bpmn 2.0 process diagrams, drag and drop start events and tasks on a white canvas, link elements, and label them.

Create your process model in Signavio placing a start event, adding tasks like determine presentation scope and create presentation, using shortcuts to connect with arrows, and saving as end event.

Learn to format process models in Signavio by cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, and aligning elements, adjusting spacing, zoom, text size, and shape formatting.

Apply BPMN 2.0 naming for tasks and start and end events; use active voice with capitalised first word for tasks, and passive voice with only first word capitalised for events.

Learn BPMN gateways—parallel and exclusive—for controlling diverging and converging flows amid conditions, alongside pools, swimlanes, and IT systems in process modelling.

Demonstrates how to model a workshop with a parallel gateway in BPMN 2.0, from a start event through splitting tasks, creating materials and contacting SMEs, to an end point.

Learn how to model exclusive gateways in BPMN 2.0 using Signavio, deciding between an online meeting or a conference room based on whether attendees exceed 20.

Identify correct and incorrect uses of exclusive and parallel gateways in BPMN 2.0 with Signavio, focusing on gateway naming, flow merging, and avoiding overlapping or non-gateway arrows.

Design a process using process modelling software for packing, value determination, and conditional shipping charges; ship if value exceeds $50, otherwise add delivery charges, with a downloadable solution.

Explore how pools and swimlanes model organizational units and roles in process diagrams, allocating tasks to roles rather than individuals, and learn how to create and arrange them in Signavio.

Learn to capture task details with Signavio main attributes, use the documentation attribute to add multi-line descriptions, and format content with images, links, or copy-paste text for end-user clarity.

Assign each task to a single swim lane and clearly connect additional participants in Signavio to show required involvement, eliminating ambiguity in BPMN 2.0 process models.

Explore the Signavio IT system element in BPMN 2.0, identify key IT systems for manual tasks, and learn how to attach them to process steps (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams).

Understand how data objects clarify the data flow in BPMN processes by linking inputs and outputs to tasks, with examples like templates and invoices.

Explore collapsed pools to show external participants and touch points in Signavio BPMN 2.0, and apply service, manual, send message, and receive message task types to capture client communications.

Explore the collapsed sub-process element in BPMN 2.0, showing how to model detailed tasks like purchase order creation and the two creation methods from the shape panel or transformation tool.

Learn to use timer events in Signavio BPMN 2.0 to create intermediate delays after a task and start timer events for periodic triggers, with a one-week example.

Model a complete online order process in Signavio using BPMN 2.0, from customer order placed to shipped, detailing sales verification, inventory checks, shipment, and updates in Salesforce and SAP Ariba.

Recap the key BPMN 2.0 elements for process modelling with Signavio, including start and end events, timer events, task types, exclusive and parallel gateways, pools and swim lanes, data objects.

Celebrate completing the SAP Signavio process modelling course and apply your skills today, as Part 2 previews intermediate link events, external pools, and the Signavio Dictionary within the Transformation Suite.