What is BPM Knowledge
A non-commercial academic resource dedicated to systematizing knowledge about business process management.
How the portal started
BPM Knowledge launched in 2018, founded by a group of practicing business analysts and lecturers in the field. The idea grew out of a daily need: detailed, systematic and reliable material on describing business processes was in critically short supply.
English-language sources — OMG specifications, academic papers, industry blogs — remained hard to reach for a broad audience. Much of what was available elsewhere was a retelling of a retelling, losing precision along the way, or vendor marketing.
To make the complex concepts of business process management accessible to practitioners, students and managers — grounded in primary sources and free of commercial bias.
How we work
Primary sources
Every piece links to the original specifications, academic works and official documents of the bodies involved — OMG, BPMI, ASME, IEEE. If we write about BPMN, we cite the OMG specification; if about Lean, the original works of Womack and Jones.
A practical focus
Theoretical concepts come with examples of their use in real industries: manufacturing, banking, healthcare, public administration, IT. That helps the reader not just understand but apply.
No commercial bias
The portal receives no funding from BPM-tool vendors. Comparisons of methodologies and platforms are made honestly, naming both the strengths and the weaknesses of each approach.
An open license
All materials are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. You may freely copy, distribute and adapt them for non-commercial use with attribution.
The team
The project involves practicing business analysts, implementation methodologists, subject-matter lecturers and independent researchers.
Partners and support
The project runs on donations and volunteer effort. Technical partners provide hosting and infrastructure. We are open to collaboration with academic institutions and independent researchers.
Content plan
The editorial team follows a long-term roadmap, organized into thematic series:
- The "Classics" series — a rethinking of the works of Taylor, Deming, Hammer and Scheer
- The "Tools" series — detailed reviews of BPM platforms (Camunda, Bizagi, ARIS)
- The "Cases" series — real BPM implementation stories, dissecting the mistakes and the wins
- The "Future of BPM" series — process mining, AI-assisted modeling, low-code platforms
Using the materials
All materials are distributed freely for non-commercial use with attribution. See the Privacy Policy for details.