A.12. Artifacts

A.12.1. Artifacts

Artifacts are considered any object depicted in the BPMN diagram that are not part of the Process workflow: they have no incoming or outgoing Flow objects.
The purpose of Artifacts is to provide additional information needed to understand the diagram.

A.12.2. Data Objects

Data Objects are visualizations of Process or Sub-Process variables. Note that not every Process or Sub-Process variable must be depicted as a Data Object in the BPMN diagram.
Also note, that Data Objects have the visualization properties and the variable properties.