8. An apparatus comprising: a business process management (BPM) system managing operations of a plurality of business processes, wherein the BPM system comprises an execution engine for processing models corresponding to the plurality of business processes, and a business process framework (BPF) device configured to provide a consistent user interface for managing business processes across a business organization, wherein the BPF is communicatively coupled to the BPM system, and wherein the BPF comprises: a processor; a non-transitory memory device communicatively coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the BPF device to: generate, via a modeling interface, at least one user interface screen to facilitate entry of business process information corresponding to a business process; generate, by the modeling interface, a representation of the business process in a modeling language based on the business process information; and trigger, via a model execution device, execution of a business process model by the execution engine of the BPM system wherein the business process model is based on the representation of the business process generated by the modeling interface; and a business rule monitoring device, wherein the business rule monitoring device is communicatively coupled to the execution engine and processes instructions that cause the business rule monitoring device to: monitor, in near real-time via a network, an operation of the business process model when executed by the execution engine in response to a process input and a resulting output; generate metrics by a metrics subsystem using a common schema and collection method, the metrics corresponding to the operation of the business process model based on business process executions gathered in near real-time that are logged via asynchronous tracing sessions managed by a security service implemented as a persistent security certificate and a dedicated BPM system user identifier requiring a valid user token to make a secured system call; and update the execution engine of the BPM with process instance information associated with the operation of the business process model.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the BPF device comprises a wrapper around the operations of the BPM system.