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yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams, organization charts, mind maps, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs, and networks. Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms to automatically arrange diagrams in no time. An intuitive and visually appealing user interface makes creating diagrams fun. Once a diagram has been created, it’s easy to save, print, or export it to popular formats like PDF, SWF, EMF, SVG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, or HTML image maps. »

"If they could see what Im thinking, they'd get it!" People just understand faster with pictures. It helps them see how information is connected, whether it is complete, and how a shift in one element impacts something else. Its simpler to grasp when you can see the connections and test "what if" scenarios.

Enterprise Architect is a collaborative modeling, design and management platform based on UML and related standards. Agile, intuitive and extensible with fully integrated, powerful domain specific high-end features at a fraction of the cost of many competitors. An enterprise wide solution for visualizing, analyzing, modeling, testing and maintaining a wide range of systems, software, processes and architectures. Team based, with a proven track record and close to 200,000 users worldwide.

ARIS Express is based on the proven ARIS methodology and industry standards. Its intuitive user interface and the latest improvements in modeling assistances enable instant results. This free version will appeal to universities and vocational schools, as well as BPM beginners and occasional users. ARIS Express is not a limited demo or trial version but a free of charge modeling software which is a reasonable replacement for other drawing tools.

Ardoq is a data-based documentation platform with a focus on connecting the business and IT sides of your organization. Our auto-generated visualizations help you understand your systems at a conceptual or strategic level. This makes Ardoq a powerful tool for organizing unstructured data – something that is becoming more and more necessary at the enterprise planning level.

ADONIS:Community Edition is a free version of the BPM toolkit ADONIS aimed both at users new to the business process management, who need an intuitive tool for documenting processes and publishing them as HTML and Word, as well as BPM practitioners, who want more sophisticated options like process simulation, performance monitoring, and risk management support.

Professional business process modelling on Microsoft platforms. Instantly turn your Visio files into structured corporate model. Enterprise Explorer instantly reveals all corporate business objects and metadata behind your regular office files. Reveal enterprise methodology hidden in your Visio diagrams through fully automatic instant process discovery. Quickly convert your idle or scattered Visio diagrams into a valuable asset of your process awareness on SharePoint.