Processenoms
Processenoms is a term used in enterprise process management to describe standardized identifiers and human-readable names assigned to processes and their constituent steps within a workflow, BPM system, or process repository. The concept focuses on creating a consistent naming scheme to improve traceability, searchability, and governance across disparate systems and teams. While not universally standardized, processenoms are adopted in organizations that aim to harmonize process documentation, auditing, and automation.
The word combines process with a suffix that signals nomenclature. In practice, processenoms function as both
A typical processenom string uses a hierarchical, dot-delimited structure such as domain.family.activity.version. Domain indicates the broad
Processenoms are usually managed in a central repository with formal lifecycle management, including approval workflows, change
See also: naming conventions, process taxonomy, process mining, BPMN, enterprise ontology.