Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools

Comparison of Business Process Modeling

Notation tools
This article compares Business Process Modeling Notation tools.

General
Creator

Name

Platform / OS

BPMN
Version

Alfresco and
the Activiti
community

Activiti Modeler

Cross-platform BPMN
2.0

Altova

UModel

Windows

Features

First
Release

Based on an early version of

Signavio

Latest
Release

Software license

2012-03-01 open source

2010-05-05 Proprietary/Shareware

Software AG ARIS Express

Windows (and
Linux, MacOS
unofficially)

BPMN
2.0

2009-07-28 2011-02-02 Freeware

BOC
ADONIS
Information (software)
Technologies
Consulting
AG

Windows

BPMN
2.0

Business Process Analysis

(BPA) tool supporting
business process management
allowing process modeling,
analysis, simulation,
evaluation, publishing and
automation. Freeware
Community Edition available.

1995

2012

Proprietary/Freeware

BonitaSoft

Bonita Open
Solution

Windows,
Linux, Mac

BPMN
2.0

Bonita Open Solution

combines three solutions in
one: a Studio for process
modeling, a BPM &
Workflow engine, and a user
interface enabling to create
standalone process-based
applications.

2001

2012

General Public License

v2

Borland

Borland Together

Windows,
Linux, Mac OS
X, Solaris

IBM

IBM BlueWorks
Live

Cloud
(browser
based)

Proprietary

IDS Scheer

Architecture of
Integrated
Information
Systems

Cross-platform
(browser
based)

Proprietary

INARTEC

idungu

Cloud
(browser
based)

2009-07-04 Proprietary/Shareware

BPMN
2.0

idungu extend model to

Enterprise Architecture, tool
supporting business process
management allowing process
modeling, analysis, evolution,
publishing and validations.

Proprietary & Free

Suscrption

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iGrafx

iGrafx
Flowcharter,
iGrafx Process

Windows and BPMN

Cross-Platform 2.0
(via iGrafx
Cloud)

iGrafx supports BPMN

diagramming throughout its
entire toolset and incorporates
validation tools to ensure
compliance with the standard.
There is a collaborative
environment available
(on-premise and cloud).

2004

2012

Proprietary

intellivate
GmbH

IYOPRO Improve Your

Processes

Cloud
(Windows,
Mac,
Silverlight)

Processmodelling,- simulation
and automation on central
process repository

2011

2013

Commercial (free
Basic edition
available)

Lucid
Software Inc

LucidChart

Cross-platform BPMN
(browser
2.0
based)

Google App / Google Drive

integration, supports Visio
files, JIRA integration,
Confluence integration

2011

updated
twice a
month

Proprietary - 14 day
free trial on team
accounts / Free
professional accounts
for educators and
students / Free version

Microsoft

Microsoft Visio
2010

Windows

2010

Proprietary

Modeliosoft

Modelio

Windows,
Linux

2009

2012

open source

No Magic

MagicDraw

Windows,
Linux, Mac OS
X

2007-09-24 2010-04-26 Proprietary/Shareware

Omni Group

OmniGraffle

Mac OS X

Rapilabs

Rigrr

Cross-platform
(browser
based)

[1]

Cubetto Toolset

Windows, Mac BPMN

OS X, Linux
2.0

[1]

Cubetto BPMN

iOS

Signavio

Signavio Process
Editor

Sparx
Systems

SYDLE
Systems

GmbH

GmbH

BPMN
2.0

2010

Proprietary

Apr 2013

freeware

Typing can be changed,

2003
further support for ARIS/EPC,
UML, BSC, Flow Charts

2013-03

Freeware

BPMN
2.0

Auto-layout,
Process-Flow-Wizard, BPMN
2.0 XML Export

2012-05

2013-04

Proprietary

Cloud
(browser
based)

BPMN
2.0

QuickModel, BPMN 2.0

process modeling,
collaboration, publication,
simulation, analysis, reference
models, integration with
process automation platforms

2009

updated
every
month

Proprietary

Enterprise
Architect

Windows
(Linux and
Mac
supported)

BPMN
1.1 &
BPMN
2.0

Supports BPMN Simulation

2000

2012

Proprietary

SYDLE SEED
Community

Cloud
(browser
based)

Supports modeling and

execution of processes

2012-07

2012-07

Freeware

Sep 2011

Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools

Yaoqiang Shi [2]

Java /
BPMN
Windows,
2.0
Linux, Mac OS
X, Solaris

No Installation needed,
2010-05-27 2013-03-15 Free and open-source
supports all BPMN 2.0
software (GPLv3)
elements (Activities,
Gateways, Conversations,
Choreographies and pools &
lanes functionality), real-time
BPMN syntax validation and
simulation, automatic
connector type selection,
built-in Version Control
Repository, automatically
generate BPMN 2.0 Diagram
Interchange information,
extensible BPMN fragment
library, extensible Plugin
Architecture, automatically
split/merge edges, sub
processes, deploy directly to
the existing BPMN 2.0
workflow engine Activiti,
LDAP Browser/Editor, uses
OMG BPMN 2.0 file format,
import Visio .vdx and
GraphML .graphml files and
custom artifacts, export to
PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, SVG,
HTML, VML and ODT
formats. Highly active project,
with the developer releasing
updates on a weekly basis,
fixing bugs and often taking
into account feature requests
of the community.

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Visible
Analyst

Visible Systems
Windows,
(www.visible.com) Citrix

BPMN

Visible Analyst supports

2007
BPMN diagramming
throughout with interactive
data repository support, rules
checking, reporting,
traceability and
interconnections with dozens
of other model types. Visible
Analyst also is fully multi-user
for concurrent development.
Visible Analyst also supports
Strategic planning, DFD,
ERD, SC, UML including:Use
Case to an Activity,
Collaboration, or Sequence
diagram, a Class to an Activity
or State Transition diagram,
Collaboration diagram,
Deployment diagram, etc. Plus
users can create custom
diagrams of any kind with user
defined symbols. All diagram
types supported include
traceability, reporting, data
repository entries, and rules
and consistency checking.

2013 (First
released
1985)

Proprietary

WinA&D

http:/ / www.
excelsoftware. com

Windows

BPMN
2.0

WinA&D support Business

1995
Process Models integrated
with requirements
management, data dictionary,
scriptable reports, code
generation & reengineering
and other techniques like
system models with
simulation, structured analysis
& design, UML and data
models. Share documents with
MacA&D running on Mac OS
X computers.

2013

Proprietary

yWorks

yEd

Windows, Mac BPMN

OS X,
2.0
Linux/Unix

Stores graphics in internal

format. Cannot load/save
BPMN 2.0 files.

2013-03

Freeware

References
[1] http:/ / www. semture. desemture
[2] http:/ / sourceforge. net/ projects/ bpmn

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