Modeling Toolset
Animate business process and compare as-is and to-be processes to identify enhancements.
Visual Diff
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.
Animacian
A picture worth a thousand of words, and a movie worth a thousand of pictures! Animacian can be configured and generate animation from business process diagram. This increases understandability by seeing design in action. Path customization is supported in the latest release.
- Using Animacian (Free)
Online training
Reference other project model elements
It is not possible to put everything in single visual paradigm project in enterprise scale project. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT allows visualizing different projects' model elements in a single diagram. The following movie shows how to configure dependent project and show the model elements in diagram.
- Reusing Model Element with Dependent Projects (Free)
Online training
View dependent project diagrams
View sub-project diagrams in the master project without switching project back and forth.
Duplicate model elements from reference project
Automatic copy reference project model elements to current project. All model element members and properties will be copied at the same time.
Mirror other project model elements
Mirror model elements feature are similar to reference model elements feature that allows visualizing model elements from other projects. The referenced model element will not keep a local copy of the model element in the project and not allow adding child to the model elements. Mirror model elements feature keeps copies of the model elements in local project and allows adding child model elements to the mirrored model elements.
Design pattern
Reusing, refining, elaborating or transcribing portion of previous project's diagram can increase modeling efficiency dramatically. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports the use of Design Pattern, which enables you to define diagram or portion of the diagram as pattern, and apply the pattern in future. The defined patterns are highly configurable and customizable to fulfill any needs. All diagrams in Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports design pattern. The defined patterns can be shared within the team through VP Teamwork Server, Subversion, Perforce or CVS.
Model element nicknaming
Nick name:
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT's market-unique Nicknamer feature lets you define multiple set of name and documentation in single model. In this connection, it allows a diagram to be presented in different languages without keeping multiple copy of the diagrams or project files. You can maintain one business process diagram with different languages for different branches of your company around the world. Besides, you can put a human readable name for each entity in ERD to increase the readability. The following movie shows you how to maintain two languages of business process diagram and make a human readable ERD. You can see the nicknamer in action by changing the combo box at the right hand side.
- Translate business process diagram
Tutorial
Automatic translation
Translate business process diagram to different languages by the automatic translation function. Both name and documentation can be translated. The following movie demonstrates how to translate business process diagram from English to Chinese.
Traceability and model transitor
Traceability between model elements helps to identify and locate the source of origin of specify model element in project. For example, "Process Order" use case is derived from a task called "Process customer order" in a business process diagram. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports model transitor to manage and maintain the traceability between model elements.