DMAL-BPIDE: A Distributed Multi-Abstraction-Level Business Process IDE

How to raise the efficiency of collaboration of modelers and bring down the cost of reusing processes are key problems in modern process developing activities. In the role-oriented way to organize modelers and the single-instance-based way to organize processes, traditional practices failed to tackle the problems. This paper describes an abstraction-level-based solution which organizes modelers and processes in the context of the top-down modeling hierarchy, and introduces a distributed BPMN based business process IDE called DMAL-BPIDE, with which enterprises could regulate and optimize modeling activities, effectively organize modelers through task distributing mechanism, and facilitate the reuse of processes.