Modeling business process definitions (deprecated)

A business process definition (BPD) is a major unit of logic in IBM® Business Process Manager (BPM). You create BPDs in the desktop Process Designer (deprecated).

In IBM Business Process Manager, you create two types of processes, depending on which editor you are using. To model a process in the desktop Process Designer, you use a BPD. To model a process in the web Process Designer, you use a process. At run time both BPDs and processes become process instances.