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Business Process Flowchart Symbols

Business process modeling is known in the corporate world as an excellent tool which can speak. Business process flowcharts, diagrams and maps are used to define the business processes in terms of inputs and outputs, to visually represent and effectively explain complex business processes of an enterprise, and also showcase decisions on a single piece of paper. The process of business process mapping supposes the use of special business process flowchart symbols predefined by Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and taking their roots from the data processing diagrams and programming flow charts. In other words the BPMN standard notation is a common language used for business process design and implementation, that guarantees a clarity of designed Business Process Flowcharts for all business analysts, technical developers and business managers. The ability to create professionally-looking Business Process flowcharts, maps and diagrams, is provided by powerful ConceptDraw PRO software and the Business Process Mapping solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Business Process Modeling with ConceptDraw

Business Process Modeling Notation -BPMN- is a set of standard symbols that allow you to create a graphical view of a business process. The symbols were developed to help users develop standard, unified structure of processes, and any messages shared between these processes. This is essense of business process improvement tools.

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Solutions of Business Processes area extend ConceptDraw PRO software with samples, templates and vector stencils libraries for drawing business process diagrams and flowcharts for business process management.
The vector stencils library "EPC diagrams" contains 23 symbol icons.
Use it to draw the event-driven process chain (EPC) flowcharts for business process modeling (BPM).
"... the elements used in Event-driven Process Chain diagram... :
(1) Event.
(2) Function.
(3) Process Owner.
(4) Organization unit.
(5) Information, material, or resource object.
(6) Logical connector.
(7) Logical relationships: Branch / Merge, Fork / Join, OR.
(8) Control flow.
(9) Information flow.
(10) Organization unit assignment.
(11) Process path. " [Event-driven process chain. Wikipedia]
The EPC symbols example "Design elements - EPC diagram" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
EPC diagram symbols
EPC diagram symbols, system, process group, organization unit, information object, material object, information, function, event, enterprise area, document, disk storage, database, comment, callout, Process path, AND operator,

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphical representation of process, algorithm, workflow or step-by-step solution of the problem. It shows the steps as boxes of various kinds and connects them by arrows in a defined order depicting a flow. There are twelve main Flowchart types: Basic Flowchart, Business Process Modeling Diagram (BPMN), Cross Functional Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram (DFD), IDEF (Integrated DEFinition) Flowchart, Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram, Influence Diagram (ID), Swimlane Flowchart, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Specification and Description Language (SDL) Diagram, Value Stream Mapping, Workflow Diagram. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design a Flowchart of any of these types. This solution offers a lot of special predesigned vector symbols for each of these widely used notations. They will make the drawing process of Flowcharts much easier than ever. Pay also attention for the included collection of ready Flowchart examples, samples and quick-start templates. This is business process improvement tools. If you are looking for MS Visio for your Mac, then you are out of luck, because it hasn't been released yet. However, you can use Visio alternatives that can successfully replace its functions. ConceptDraw PRO is an alternative to MS Visio for Mac that provides powerful features and intuitive user interface for the same.
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How To Present a Business Process Model

The most effective way of organizing and modeling a business process is to use a visual format. The visual approach to a business process modeling or analizing enables each point to be displayed clearly and compendiously. To reach the professional norms necessary for business process diagrams, it's better to use ConceptDraw Business Process Mapping solution. It delivers an extensive choice of process mapping tools to help quality management and help improve business workflows. The export facilities of ConceptDraw PRO help make short work of presenting the business process model by export business process diagrams to MS PowerPoint.
The business processes modeling (BPM) flowchart sample "Event-driven process chain (EPC) diagram" was created on the base of illustration from "Methods for the specification and verification of business processes. 19 - Event-driven process chains. Roberto Bruni. 2011".
"An Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is a
particular type of flow-chart that can be used for configuring an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.
Supported by many tools (e.g. SAP R/ 3).
EPC Markup Language available (EPML)
as interchange format. ...
EPC overview.
Important notation to model the domain aspects of business processes.
Rather informal notation.
EPC focus is on representing domain concepts and processes (not their formal aspects and technical realization).
It can be used to drive the modeling, analysis and redesign of business process." [cli.di.unipi.it/ ~rbruni/ MPB-12/ 19-EPC.pdf]
The event-driven process chain (EPC) diagram example was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
EPC flow chart
EPC flow chart, function, event, AND operator,