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Visual Modeling

Our powerful visual modeling tools assist you in building and managing your diagrams and model elements effectively:

Intuitive drag-and-drop diagram editor
Support for UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, DFD, ERD, SoaML, SysML, CMMN
Efficient modeling tools including element reusability, diagram and element transformation, syntax validation, custom properties, and more
Wide range of formatting options

Enterprise Architecture

Utilize our industry-unique TOGAF ADM lifecycle tool, along with DoDAF, NAF, and MODAF tools, trusted by the world's leading enterprises.

Process navigation tool that guides you through the ADM phases.
Actionable steps: Perform ADM activities within our tool, accompanied by guides and clear examples - no training required.
Extensive range of ADM tools, including ArchiMate, Capability Analysis, and ADM deliverable tools.
Auto-generated TOGAF deliverables.

Business Analysis & Design

Benefit from our comprehensive suite of business tools designed to enhance your business's efficiency and productivity.

Strategic Planning: Utilize our process management tool to discover and define your business's strategic goals.
Process Design: Visualize business workflows with BPMN, document working procedures for activities, and generate high-quality process reports.
Process Analysis: Study workflows using our process animation tool, and determine optimal resource allocation with our process simulation tool.
Process Reengineering: Utilize our Reengineering process management tool to document your plan, design new processes, identify gaps, and monitor improvements (KPIs).

Project Management

Maximize your software project outcomes with our comprehensive suite of project management tools.

A map of project management lifecycle with hotspots to all planning, execution, and control activities. Execute tasks using our built-in management tools and generate reports instantly.
Utilize our 2D configurable process map to organize management activities efficiently.Access PMBOK and various project management process templates.
Access a diverse range of management tools, including PERT, roadmap, implementation plan, spider chart, WBS, Fishbone diagrams and more.

Agile & Scrum Development

Full set of agile backlog and process management tools that makes your agile projects more effective.

User story mapping:
- Drag and drop story creation and arrangement.
- Story estimation tool – Affinity table.
- Sprint backlog management
Scrum Process Canvas:
Scrum Process Canvas that helps your team manage entire Scrum Project in one page including: all the Scrum roles, events and artifacts. Perform the activities right within the map. Generate Scrum reports in seconds.

Online Diagrams

Zero setup & configuration based on cloud technology for easy diagram creation and team collaboration.

Convenient drag-and-drop diagram editors
100+ diagram types, covering all kinds of business, technical and general diagrams.
1000+ diagram templates to help you start quick.
Web-based – Works well in different web browsers, and in any platform
The best Visio alternative both in terms of features and pricing
Embed your diagrams into MS Documents and Presentations for display and quick editing

User Experience Design

Clarify stakeholders' needs with our powerful user experience tools.

Wireframe tool - Create wireframes to visualize screen flow and screen layout
Wireflow tool – Visualize the flow of wireframes as a flowchart.
Wireflow animation - Make your wireflow alive through the animation tool, which makes your presentation way more effective.
Prototyping tool: demonstrate and confirm your work.

Customer Experience Design

Uncover improvement opportunities through comprehensive analysis of the customer experience. Utilize a Customer Journey Map (CJM) to gain insights into customers' behaviors, thoughts, and feelings across their journey, enabling the development of business plans rooted in customer value.

Code & Database Engineering

Bridge the gap between system design and implementation, with our code and database engineering support.

Code engineering tools:

Code generation and reversal (for 10+ languages)
Form sequence diagram from Java
Hibernate ORM
Generate/Reverse state machine code
REST API design and generation

Database engineering tools:

Export database/DDL from ERD
Generate ERD from database/DDL

Process Map Designer

Plan and design business operations with our flexible 2D process map designer.

Matrix-style Process Map editor
Over 40 business & technical process templates
Unlimited rows and columns
Configurable data format: Text, List, Bullet, etc
Data visualization with charts

Team Collaboration

Let your team work concurrently, collaboratively and smoothly on same projects. Our cloud-based repository keeps your work securely on the cloud and makes it accessible anytime and anywhere.

Powerful Document Builder

Powerful Doc. Composer that enables you to build your report - Drag and drop model elements onto the document editor and that's it! Thousands of element templates are available, and you can even create your own and reuse it in every report.

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Feature	Community	Modeler	Standard	Professional	Enterprise

Core Diagramming and Modeling Tool
UML diagram Latest UML 2.x diagram tool for system modeling. enhanced ai
SysML diagram Latest SysML diagram tool for system modeling. enhanced ai
Flowchart new ai
Organization chart Visualize organization structure with an easy-to-use organization chart creator enhanced ai
ER diagram (Standard) Database design with Entity Relationship Diagram enhanced ai
ER diagram (Chen Notation) new ai
BPMN diagram (business process mapping) Draw BPMN business process diagram for business process modeling.	-
Data Flow Diagram (DFD) Draw Data Flow Diagram (DFD) to represent the information flow among system processes. enhanced ai	-
Yourdon and Coad DFD new ai	-
Yourdon and Demarco DFD new ai	-
Gane Sarson DFD new ai	-
EPC diagram enhanced ai	-
Advanced Diagramming and Modeling
Mind mapping enhanced ai Mind map diagram Brainstorm diagram	-	-
SoaML diagram	-	-
C4 diagram new	-	-
BMM diagram Model business visions, strategies, policies and other motivation elements with BMM	-	-	-
CMMN diagram CMMN tool for modeling case-oriented business scenarios	-	-	-
Team Collaboration
Collaborative and concurrent modeling Keep your work in cloud workspace. Work collaboratively and share your work easily.
Revision history
Diagram review and commenting Share your design online with stakeholder. Collect their comments through the commenting tool.	-
Task management Create and manage project tasks with a professional task management platform.	-
Change request management Submit, initiate, and request approval for changes within independent branches	-	-	-
Model Analysis Tools
Project glossary management Define and maintain a list of project keywords in a project glossary.	-
Matrix tool	-	-
Analysis diagram	-	-
RACI and CRUD chart	-	-
On-Demand Model ETL Extract, Transform and Load models with powerful model warehousing tool.	-	-	-
Requirements and UX Design
Textual analysis Identify domain keywords from problem description. Convert them to model elements on-the-fly. enhanced ai	-
Use case description List the event flow within use cases and document other major properties.	-	-
UX wireframe Create wireframes for user experience design.	-	-
UX storyboard Organize and present wireframes as stories.	-	-
UX wireflow Represent user interactions and workflows with wireflow diagram - flowchart of wireframes	-	-
UX prototyping tool Create wireflow and perform prototyping easily and quickly	-	-
High fidelity mockup tool Create high fidelity user interface design.	-	-
Documentation and Reporting
Doc. Composer	-	-
Project Publisher	-	-
Code and Database Engineering
Code engineering Generate source code from UML class model or vice versa. Generate / update code from UML Generate UML from code Round-trip engineering	-	-
Visual REST API designer Design RESTful API graphically. Generate API in seconds. Visual REST API designer Generate Swagger / OpenAPI / API blueprint formatted API Generate API documentation	-	-
Generate Swagger, Open API, API Blueprint	-	-
Database engineering Generate / update database from ERD Generate ERD from database Generate & reverse DDL	-	-
Hibernate (ORM) Enjoy SQL-less programming by designing and generating ORM to use in program development.	-	-
Advanced Modeling and Visualization
Analysis Canvas
Diagram animation Make your design alive with diagram animation tool. BPMN process animation Sequence diagram animation Activity diagram animation	-	-
Project referencing	-	-
Model Transitor	-	-
Model transformation	-	-
Shape and color legend	-	-
Model Nicknamer	-	-
Visual Diff diagram comparison tool	-	-
Design pattern tool	-	-
Zachman Framework Keep project artifacts in an organized manner with Zachman Framework	-	-
STEPS wizards	-	-
Integrations
Atlassian Confluence integration new	-	-
Jira integration new	-	-
Project Management Tools
Gantt chart Plan and manage tasks by listing them and visualizing their duration in a Gantt chart.	-	-
PERT chart Visualize project activities and their inter-dependencies with PERT chart. enhanced ai	-	-	-
Breakdown structure chart Create any kind of breakdown structure easily and quickly. enhanced ai	-	-	-
Roadmap diagram enhanced ai	-	-	-
Implementation plan diagram enhanced ai	-	-	-
Form builder	-	-	-
Visual file cabinet Keep your files in a visual file cabinet designed by you	-	-	-
Agile and Scrum Tools
User Story Manage product backlog and requirements with user stories. 3C's - Card, Confirmation, Conversation Scenario editor Story-based storyboard Visualize story in diagram	-	-
User Story Mapping & Agile tools Full set of agile tools that help you manage scrum projects effectively. User Story Map Sprint backlog Story estimation: Affinity Table Burndown chart Scrumboard	-	-	-
Scrum Canvas A scrum management tool built to help you manage your scrum project - from identifying project vision, through to final product delivery. One-page Scrum process canvas Actionable work items Prioritized product backlog with story map integration Sprint backlog Effort-estimated task list Daily Scrum meeting records Impediment log Burndown chart Scrum board Sprint review and retrospective management Iterative sprint data management Release and deliverable management Scrum team and stakeholder management Project retrospective management Automatic report generation and archiving Integration with task management	-	-	-
LeSS Canvas Product backlog management Sprint backlog management Team management Task management Daily Scrum management Impediment management Sprint retrospective Burndown chart	-	-	-
Nexus Canvas Product backlog management Sprint backlog management Team management Task management User acceptance management Daily scrum management Impediment management Sprint retrospective Burndown chart	-	-	-
Scrum Canvas customization	-	-	-
Project Management Lifecycle Guide-Through Step-by-step guide-through process for project management, with instructions, samples and tools for incremental deliverables development. Project management lifecycle navigator Four Process Schemes that Fits Different Project Complexity Actionable work items Diagram and form-based artifacts Automatic deliverable generation and archiving	-	-	-
Project management Just-in-Time process map	-	-	-
PMBOK Just-in-Time process map	-	-	-
Business Analysis and Process Improvement
Customer journey map Study customers' thoughts and feeling through 2D customer journey map.	-	-
Decision table Present, with a tabular layout, rules and the conditions and actions associated. enhanced ai	-	-
Process map designer Define business process with a process map designer	-	-
Business rule grid	-	-	-
Fact model	-	-	-
BMM strategic planning Guide-Through Perform strategic planning with BMM step-by-step, with instructions, samples and document generation tools. BMM process navigator Actionable work items Diagram and form-based artifacts Automatic deliverable generation and archiving	-	-	-
Business Process Reengineering Canvas Manage your entire business process reengineering project in one single canvas - from identifying project vision, through to process implementation and performance measurement. One-page BPR process canvas As-is process modeling To-be process modeling Gap analysis WBS - Structure reengineering works Work package portfolio Implementation plan KPI & performance assessment Reengineering team management Automatic report generation and archiving	-	-	-
Business Process Reengr. Canvas customization	-	-	-
Quality Control Canvas	-	-	-
Cause and Effect diagram Quickly develop a Cause and Effect Diagrams (aka. Fishbone / Ishikawa) enhanced ai	-	-	-
Radar chart Easy-to-use Radar Chart software tool to create any kind of radar chart and spider chart. enhanced ai	-	-	-
AI-Powered Features
AI diagram generation new ai	-	-	-
Import ArchiMate from chatbot to Visual Paradigm new ai	-	-	-	-
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
ArchiMate diagram Enterprise Architecture with a certified ArchiMate 3.2 enterprise architecture tool. enhanced ai	-	-	-	-
ArchiMate viewpoints	-	-	-	-
TOGAF ADM Guide-Through Learn TOGAF visually, navigate the ADM and develop deliverables for each development phase.	-	-	-	-
TOGAF ADM Guide-Through customization TOGAF ADM cycle navigator Actionable work items Diagram and form-based artifacts Automatic deliverable generation and archiving	-	-	-	-
TOGAF ADM Just-in-Time process map	-	-	-	-
DoDAF Create and manage DoDAF views through DoDAF framework tool, diagram tools and matrix tools.	-	-	-	-
NAF Create and manage NAF views through NAF framework tool, diagram tools and matrix tools.	-	-	-	-
MODAF Create and manage MODAF views through MODAF framework tool, diagram tools and matrix tools.	-	-	-	-
Just-in-Time process map Design and execute development process in a 2-Dimensional process map.	-	-	-	-
Just-in-Time process map customization	-	-	-	-
Enterprise Model Finder Speedily search model elements across VP's projects based on cloud server technology.	-	-	-	-
Customization and Extensions
Plug-in development
Create guide-through process	-	-	-	-
Create Just-in-Time work items	-	-	-	-

Feature	Community	Modeler	Standard	Professional	Enterprise

Chatbot
AI Chatbot for Visual Modeling ai	-	-	-
Software Development
AI Use Case Description Generator ai
Base Use Case Diagram Analyzer ai
AI Problem Description Generator ai
Extend and Include Use Case Analyzer
AI Sequence Diagram Refinement Tool ai
AI Use Case Diagram Refinement Tool ai
Use Case Diagram Report Generator ai
AI Use Case Scenario Analyzer ai
AI MVC System Architecture Generator ai
PlantUML Deployment Diagram Builder
PlantUML Sequence Diagram Builder
AI-Assisted UML Class Diagram Generator ai
AI Textual Analysis ai	-	-	-
Use Case to Activity Diagram ai	-	-	-
Use Case Driven Development Assistant ai	-	-	-
AI Development Plan Generator ai	-	-	-
C4 PlantUML Studio ai	-	-	-
DB Modeler AI ai	-	-	-
Agile Workflow
Agile Affinity Mapping Planner ai
Agile Demonstration Session Planner ai
Agile Retrospective Planner ai
User Story (3Cs) Editor ai
Agile Backlog Refinement Tool ai
Agilien: AI-Powered Jira Backlog Planner ai	-	-	-
Project Management
Gantt Chart Builder
RACI Matrix
Stakeholder Management Tool
MoSCoW Prioritization Framework Tool ai
IT Outsourcing Project Guide ai
Eisenhower Matrix Task Planner ai
AI KPI Performance Diagram Builder ai	-	-	-
Process Analysis
5 Whys Root Cause Analysis Tools ai
Root Cause Analysis Framework Tool ai
Cost-Benefit Analysis Tool ai
Gap Analysis Tool ai
Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Framework Tool ai
Force Field Analysis Framework Tool ai
Customer Journey Mapping Editor
AI Powered BI Analytics ai
Decision Table ai	-	-	-
Intelligent BPM and Analysis Suite ai	-	-	-
Strategic Analysis
Business Model Canvas Builder
SWOT and TOWS Business Analysis Tool ai
PESTLE Analysis Tool ai
Porter's Fice Forces Analyzer
Ansoff Matrix Strategy Builder ai
OKRs Framework Tool ai
Balanced Scorecard Framework Builder ai
BCG Matrix Analysis Tool ai
Blue Ocean Strategy Tool ai
Value Chain Analysis Tool ai
Competitive Analysis Tool ai
Hoshin Kanri Tool ai
Benchmarking Analysis Tool ai
Scenario Analysis Tool ai
Model Canvas Tool ai	-	-	-
Content and Visual
Markdown Editor
Markdown Presentation Marker ai
AI-Assisted Brainstorming ai
AI JSON CRUD Table ai
3-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
4-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
5-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
6-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
7-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
8-Aspects Infographic Designer ai
Page Editor ai	-	-	-
Tree Diagram Maker ai	-	-	-
AI Animated Banner Generator ai	-	-	-
AI-Powered Flipbook Maker (Lite) ai	-	-	-
AI Flipbook Maker ai	-	-	-
Illumy AI Slides Maker ai	-	-	-
AI Article Writer ai	-	-	-

Feature	Community	Modeler	Standard	Professional	Enterprise

Software Design Tools
Use case diagram
Class diagram
Activity diagram
Sequence diagram
Deployment diagram
State machine diagram
Component diagram
Package diagram
Entity Relationship Diagram
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Hexagonal architecture diagram
Data Flow Diagram	-
Yourdon DeMarco DFD	-
Yourdon and Coad diagram	-
SSADM DFD	-
Gane Sarson diagram	-
C4 model	-
Functional Flow Block Diagram	-	-
Business Design Tools
System context diagram
Problem flow diagram
Information flow diagram
Affinity diagram
Marketing funnel
ToFu, MoFu, BoFu
AIDA funnel
Kotter's 8-Step Change Model
Brand Essence Wheel
Circular flow diagram
BPMN Business Process Diagram	-
Business Model Canvas
Causal loop diagram	-
Enterprise architecture diagram	-
Lewin's change model	-
Empathy map	-
Stock and flow diagram	-
Value Stream Mapping	-	-
Dendrogram	-	-
ArchiMate diagram	-	-	-	-
Project Management Tools
Arrow diagram
Stakeholder matrix
Solution selection matrix
MoSCoW method
ADKAR	-
Enhanced PERT Chart	-	-
Roadmap	-	-
NASA project lifecycle	-	-
Work Breakdown Structure	-	-	-
Resource breakdown structure	-	-	-
Risk breakdown structure	-	-	-
Functional decomposition diagram	-	-	-
Flowchart Makers
Flowchart Represent work flow by drawing flowchart.
Swimlane flowchart
Cross-Functional flowchart
SDL diagram	-
Audit flowchart	-	-
Accounting flowchart	-	-
Organizational Chart Tools
Organization Chart
Family tree
Genogram	-	-
Kinship diagram	-	-
Pedigree chart	-	-
Quality Control Tools
PDCA
5S
6S
Critical to Quality Tree (CTQ Tree)	-
Threat model	-
PICK diagram	-
Defect concentration diagram	-	-
TQM diagram	-	-
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)	-	-
SIPOC diagram	-	-
UX Design Tools
Site map diagram
Material design wireframe
Atlassian wireframe	-
Wired UI diagram	-
Fluent Design wireframe	-
Floor Plan Designers
Floor plan maker Design the layout of your office or home.
Seating chart tool
Network Diagram Tools
Network diagram
Rack diagram
Cloud Service Architecture Designers
AWS architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Azure architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Google Cloud Platform diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
IBM Cloud architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Alibaba Cloud architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Huawei Cloud architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.	-
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Tencent Cloud architecture diagram Create professional cloud architecture design that aids in communication and IT solution development.
Engineering Diagram Tools
Logic diagram
Circuit diagram
Wiring diagram
Process Flow Diagram (PFD)
Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)
Block flow diagram
Mind Mapping Tools
Concept map diagram
Bubble diagram
Cluster diagram
Circle map
Bridge map
Flow map
Diamond ranking
PMI chart

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