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Define and describe business operations, definitions and constraints by text with intelligent business rule text editor.

Relate glossary terms and design business structure by fact diagrams. Fact diagram supports attributes, unary fact type, binary fact type and n-ary fact type.

You can use label to group your glossary terms. One term can have multiple labels and you can filter glossary terms by label.


Grid diagram gives another perspective of your project file. You can browse your design in tabular format and configure showing which columns.

Increase or decrease Business Process Visual ARCHITECT application font size to fit to your usage.
Save diagramming time by create connecting objects with multiple turning points at once.
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Reference to A³ Platform's activities, issues and requirements easily. Open the referenced A³ Platform resources by just a few mouse clicks.

Every element in VP project has a unique URL. You can send the URL to your colleagues to locate the target elements easily.

View sub-project diagrams in the master project without switching project back and forth.

Automatic copy reference project model elements to current project. All model element members and properties will be copied at the same time.

Reuse Visio diagram with UML diagrams by importing Visio Drawing to Stencil.
ID box position:

Freely place ID label to anywhere or place the ID label in per-defined 8 direction.
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Showing shape name in different angle:
Flexible caption placement options for different diagram layout.
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Automatic restore connection end point between expanded and collapsed shapes.

Visualize inner and inter organizations operations with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0. BP-VA fully supports BPMN 2.0 notations and comes with a bunch of diagramming toolset like voice documentation, sweeper and magnet.
The following movies demonstrate designing sales order processing business diagram with some handy features like sweeper and magnet.
Visually simulate the execution of business process diagram. Instances of pool and lane, required resources and activities' durations are adjustable for process improvement.
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Event-driven process chain diagram (EPC diagrams) is kind of business process modeling 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.

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports exporting and importing Microsoft Excel file. Excel is the best tool for mass editing of model element names and properties. You may export diagram to Excel file, edit their names and properties in tabular format, and then import the changes back to Business Process Visual ARCHITECT. The following screenshots demonstrate how to export and import Excel file.

Line Jump Options:
When drawing a complex diagram with many shapes and connectors, connectors may intersect with each other. Line jump feature is design for decorating the intersection, which makes it easier to identify connection paths. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports arc, gap and square line jump options. The following screenshot shows all line jump options and you can try different line jump in left hand side pane.
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Analysis diagram helps to identify full consequences of changes before you really make changes. Analysis diagram visualize all related model elements. You can further analyse specific model element by clicking the analyse resource icon. The following flash demo demonstrates how to use analysis diagram to do impact analysis.

Share business process design within and across teams with project publisher. Project publisher can generate business process diagram to web format. There is no special requirement to host the published content. The latest version supports glossary grid in published project.
The following movie shows you how to publish project with Project Publisher and use the published content.

Design business process report template with visual template designer. The latest version added a lot of customizable elements and increased usability. The following movie shows how to use report template designer to design your own report template.

Compare as-is business process diagram and to-be business process diagram. Identify new, deleted and updated tasks between diagrams. The latest release supports exporting differences to PDF for reporting purpose.

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT can export diagrams into several image formats, such as JPG, PNG, SVG and EMF. The following screenshots show how to export Business Process Visual ARCHITECT diagrams to image files.

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports generating design blueprints to PDF files. The paper size, cover page design, TOC, page header and footer are all customizable. You may select to include/exclude diagrams and model elements, and reorder the content. There are various options to control the styles and formatting of the generated PDF. The PDF generation feature is available in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix platform. The following movie demonstrates how to generate PDF report with business process diagrams and entity relationship diagram. The movie also shows how to customize the order of model elements, as well as to setup cover page, page header and page footer.
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