Business Process Modeling

Visualize, understand, analyze and improve business process with BPMN, Process Map, Data Flow Diagram and Organization Chart.

Share |

Business process diagram

Enhanced feature
Business process diagram

Communicate and document business workflow with worldwide standards, BPMN 2.0. Agilian supports BPMN 2.0 notations with some advanced modeling features like animacian, visual diff, impact analysis and more.

Define business process working procedure

Define business process working procedure

Specify detailed steps of business process flow objects with procedure editor.

BPMN conversation diagram

BPMN conversation diagram

Visualize communication between organizations with BPMN 2.0 conversation diagrams.
The following movie demonstrates how to draw conversation diagram.

Identify business process elements using textual analysis

Identify business process elements using textual analysis

There are various ways to discover pools, lanes and tasks of process. Agilian supports textual analysis for extracting pools, lanes and tasks from text document. The following movie shows how ABC Company use textual analysis to discover pools, lanes and tasks from article describing the resell business process, and develop initial business process diagram.

Process map diagram

Process map diagram

Business process diagram presents detail execution and communication view of process. Model middle to large organization workflow in single business process diagram is virtually impossible. Process map diagram provides a high level view of business process. The process in process map can drill down using business process diagram and the process link shows relationships between different business processes. Process map diagram is a good starting point for top down modeling approach. A typical process map diagram shows in following screenshot.

Event-driven process chain diagram

Enhanced feature

Event-driven process chain diagram (EPC diagrams) is kind of business process diagram diagram. EPC diagram contains events, functions, operators, organization units, flows and information resources. A typical event-driven process chain diagram is shown in following screenshot.

Data flow diagram

Data flow diagram (DFD) presents flow of data. DFD is a classical software engineering diagram for structural design. There are various levels of DFD. Level 0 DFD is context diagram showing how system interacts with external entities. Level 1 DFD shows some detail of system. DFD is not a popular notation after software industry was shifted from structure approach to object-oriented approach. There are more and more business analysts use DFD to model the data and document flow of the modeling organization. A typical data flow diagram is shown in the following screenshot.

Organization chart

Organization chart shows the structure of an organization. Organization chart is usually drawn and read from top to bottom. The top (root) node is the CEO and then first level managements, second level managements and so forth. The lines in organization chart shows the relationships between staff.

Tell us what you think?

Sending...
Thank you for your feedback