General objects in BPMN

The five basic categories of elements are:

Flow Objects are the main graphical elements to define the behavior of a business process. There are three flow objects:

Data is represented with four elements:

There are four ways of connecting the flow objects to each other or other information. There are four connecting objects:

There are two ways of grouping the primary modeling elements through swimlanes:

Artifacts are used to provide additional information about the process. There are two standardized artifacts