BPMN and Business Process Management: An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard introduces the concept of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), the new standard for modeling business processes and web service processes. BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture world called Business Process Management (BPM).

As systems engineering problems and solutions become more complex, it is harder for engineers to describe them and harder for reviewers and other stakeholders to understand the descriptions. The Systems Engineering Sandwich: Combining requirements, models and design offers a way to combine textual and visual representation, resulting in more accurate and complete system descriptions that are easier to understand and communicate for all involved.