Collaborative Business Process Modeling Approaches: A Review

Abstract—Recently, Collaborative Business Process modeling (cBPM) has become very popular due to modern Business Process Management trend. It expands to cover business processes across the organizational boundaries and, thus, emerges the need of collaborative business process modeling. Business process modeling (BPM) requires many complex iterations and communications between the domain specialists and business analysts. Collaborative business processes are the facilitators for organizations to develop flexible and dynamic collaborations to adapt to the changing conditions and stay competitive in the global market. The main aim of the paper is to review the cBPM approaches and provide a comparison among them to highlight their limitations and challenges. Keywords- collaborative business process modeling; business process management; survey I.