Editing Business process modeling (section)

=== Tools ===
Business process modelling tools provide business users with the ability to model their business processes, implement and execute those models, and refine the models based on as-executed data. As a result, business process modelling tools can provide transparency into business processes, as well as the centralization of corporate business process models and execution metrics.<ref name="NIH07">[http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/ArchLib/AT/TA/WorkflowServicePattern.htm Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Service Pattern] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113184950/http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/ArchLib/AT/TA/WorkflowServicePattern.htm |date=2009-01-13}} June 27, 2007. Accessed 29 nov 2008.</ref> Modelling tools may also enable collaborate modelling of complex processes by users working in teams, where users can share and simulate models collaboratively.<ref>Christensen, Lars Rune & Thomas Hildebrandt (2017) [https://pure.itu.dk/portal/files/83457483/Christensen_Hildebrandt_2017.pdf Modelling Cooperative Work at a Medical Department]. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. Troyes, France. ACM.
</ref> Business process modelling tools should not be confused with business process automation systems – both practices have modeling the process as the same initial step and the difference is that process automation gives you an 'executable diagram' and that is drastically different from traditional graphical business process modelling tools.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}