Ready-to-use business processes templates for a fast setup - Paper

Sep 12, 2026

Ready-to-use business processes templates for fast setup present an approach that streamlines the modelling of complex business processes known to be similar to earlier ones, enabling partial reuse. The work defines a business process template as a BPMN process description enriched with annotated variability points, and implements the Process Factory to create templates and reify each variability point through BPMN customization. A rich UX delivers deployable BPMN processes, helping non-BPMN users model accurately while saving time, resources, and reducing errors.

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Introduction

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Motivation and problem statement

Template concept and methodology

BPMN templates and reuse

Reification through configuration

Work packages and outcomes

Methodology and technologies

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Relevance for the Process Factory and end users

Process factory: Ready-to-use business processes templates for a fast setup Miguel Agostinho1, Carolina Marques1, Filipe Correia 1, Pedro Sousa 1,2,3 and Sérgio Guerreiro1,2,3,* 1Link Consulting SA, Av. Duque de Ávila 23, 1000-138 Lisbon, Portugal 2INESC-ID, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal 3Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Abstract The purpose of this project is to develop an approach to facilitate the modelling phase of complex business processes, in particular the ones which are a priori known as being similar with previous ones, and therefore could be partially reused. To achieve this purpose, the concept of business process template is defined as the full description of a BPMN business process that is enriched with annotations concerning its variability points. The Process Factory allows the creation of business processes templates using BPMN. Then, the templates are reified customizing each variability point, e.g., gateway decisions, pools, etc., accordingly with the reality of each application domain. To smooth the usability, the Process Factory uses a rich UX where the final product is delivered as a BPMN process that can be deployed in any BPMN compliant engine. The achieved results show that deploying ready-to-use business processes patterns using a rich UX aids the non-BPMN experienced users to model their business process, while at the sametime saves their time, resources and minimizes errors. Keywords Atlas tool, BPMN, Business process, Fast setup, Process Factory, Ready-to-use, Template 1. Introduction Ready-to-use business processes templates for a fast setup is located in a broader project, namedeProcess, which is currently under development. The ready-to-use is already deployed and being used in consultancy services. The project’s motivation is inspired by the fact that recent progresses and the apparent ease with which the numerous process automation solutions allow the specification and automation of processes, there are still significant obstacles and limitations both in the standards that allow the specification of processes, e.g., the notation Business Process Model and Notation-BPMN1 , as well as in the subsequent automation of the same processes, in ER2023: Companion Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: ER Forum, 7th SCME, Project Exhibitions, Posters and Demos, and Doctoral Consortium, November 06-09, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal *Corresponding author $ [miguel.agostinho@linkconsulting.com](miguel.agostinho@linkconsulting.com) (M. Agostinho); [carolina.marques@linkconsulting.com](carolina.marques@linkconsulting.com) (C. Marques); [filipe.correia@linkconsulting.com](filipe.correia@linkconsulting.com) (F. Correia); [pedro.manuel.sousa@tecnico.ulisboa.pt](pedro.manuel.sousa@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) (P. Sousa); [sergio.guerreiro@tecnico.ulisboa.pt](sergio.guerreiro@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) (S. Guerreiro) 􀀚 0000-0001-7453-5778 (P. Sousa); 0000-0002-8627-3338 (S. Guerreiro) © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) . CWPEURorkroceshopedings http://ceurISSN 1613-ws-0073.org CEUR Workshop Proceedings ([CEUR-WS.org](CEUR-WS.org)) 1BPMN is the de facto standard used by industry and researchers for business process modeling and execution. It is also available under the standard ISO/IEC 19510:2013, [https://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/](https://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/) CEUR ~~ ~~[Workshop](Workshop ceur-ws.org)[ ceur-ws.org](Workshop ceur-ws.org)[ ](Workshop ceur-ws.org)[Proceedings](Proceedings ISSN 1613-0073)[ ISSN 1613-0073](Proceedings ISSN 1613-0073) which each business process execution engines demand compliance with their own proprietary BPMN extensions, e.g., an extensive use of XML extension elements. Furthermore, the need for investment in R&D applied to BPM [1] platforms can be

FAQs

What is the main goal of the Process Factory approach?

To facilitate the modelling phase of complex business processes by using predefined, similar templates that can be partially reused.

How does the Process Factory use business process templates?

A template is defined as a full BPMN description enriched with annotations for variability points, which are then reified by domain-specific configuration.

Why is the provided UX important for users?

The rich UX helps non-BPMN experienced users model business processes by delivering ready-to-use BPMN processes deployable in BPMN-compliant engines.

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