Every business process identified has a life cycle of its own. This life cycle needs to be fully captured to realize and take advantage of the process-oriented management of any business process.

Following are the activities that occur in a process life cycle:

1. Discovery of existing business processes
2. Model the business process
3. Create a run-time environment to execute the modeled process
4. Execute the process
5. Monitor the process that is executing
6. Manual interaction with the processes
7. Control of failed transactions
8. Analyze or audit the process

GSi is based on the philosophy and the process life-cycle as described above. The process lifecycle undergoes the following set of steps in a cyclic manner right from definition to execution to analysis.

• Define - Identify the process, its steps and rules driving the process
• Model - Model the defined/identified process as software model
• Deploy - Deploy the software process model onto GSi
• Execute - Execute/Invoke the process model
• Manage - Manage the running process to stop/terminate or resolve abnormal conditions
• Analyze and Optimize - Once processes are in execution, analyze the process in terms of identification of bottlenecks, eliminating unnecessary steps/higher cycle times and optimizing the process