The proper visualization of a business process plays a key role in
analyzing, changing, simulating and monitoring the business process. Most
BPMS systems today, provide a modeling environment where the business
user can define and visualize business processes as BPMN diagrams. Some
more advanced systems (such as Savvion Business Manager) enable
monitoring of the business process at run-time via a color-coded view of
the process diagram. While process diagram is an important view of the
process, it lacks the level of abstraction needed to provide information
in an optimal way to the business users. The proposed visualization,
called the 360 degree view provides an optimal view of a business process
without losing important details about the process.