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 DIAGRAM software and the Business Process Mapping solution included to ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Basic of Flowchart: Meaning and Symbols

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful — you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

How to Build a Flowchart

Flow Chart Symbols

The Flowcharts are incredibly useful and popular tool used in science, business, software development, analytics, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, administration, architecture, government, politics, and many other fields thanks to a variety of existing types of flowcharts. A Flowchart is a visual graphical representation of the process, algorithm, or the set of steps taken for problem's solution. Widely used for designing, visualizing and documenting simple and complex processes and programs, they effectively help to understand the process and to find easier the flaws if they are. Each flowchart type supposes the use of its own set of notations for drawing corresponding diagram, which includes the symbols of process, decision, data, document, data base, termination, initiation processes, processing loops, conditions, etc. It is easily design a Flowchart using the special professional flowchart maker - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagram software with numerous predesigned flow chart symbols grouped in libraries of Flowcharts solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Create Flowchart - Making a Flowchart

The Flowchart is a very popular type of diagram, it is widely used for analyzing, designing, managing and visualizing the business and technical processes, various software algorithms. But how to create Flowchart quick and easy? Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park helps you to design the professional looking Flowchart Diagrams quick and easy using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software.

Process Flowcharts

This solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with templates, samples, and library of vector shapes for drawing the Process Flowcharts.

Flowchart Programming Project. Flowchart Examples

Create you own flow charts of process-driven software applications using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. The programming project flow chart example shows the logical process of execution.

Flowchart Software

Flowchart is a simple diagram, map or graphical schematic representation the sequence of actions within a process. It is ideal for displaying how a process currently flows or can function ideally. The Flowcharts let define the steps and boundaries of a process, uncover problems or miscommunications. The Flowcharts are widely used in education, software development, business, economics, thanks to their visuality they are ideal for presentations, reports, for using on conferences to help the audience comprehend the content better, or easy find flaws in a process flow diagrams. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is professional flowcharts software and feature-rich flowchart maker, which supports Mac OS X and Windows. It contains at ConceptDraw Solution Park a rich set of stencils and professional flowchart symbols for design. It lets create simply professional-looking Flowcharts based on thousand free flowchart templates, colored symbols and examples. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a 3 times cheaper alternative to MS Visio available for both Mac and PC. It’s is another full featured business and technical diagramming application that can easily take care of Visio files within OS X. Another bonus with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM – it's cross-platform. You can work on a document in both OS X and Windows, skipping Visio entirely.

How to Build a Flowchart

Audit Flowchart Symbols

The audit is a complex process consisting of defined quantity of steps, which have as a final goal the ensuring of success of a certain business project. It includes the independent examination of data, statements and financial performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. It is convenient to construct the Audit Flowcharts or Audit Diagrams for visual representation and structuring the audit processes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software enhanced with Audit Flowcharts solution from the Finance and Accounting area of ConceptDraw Solution Park effectively helps to draw the Audit Diagrams for accounting, finance and money management, the Audit Flowcharts for fiscal information tracking, financial inventories and documenting Six Sigma, the decision making Flow Charts, etc. This solution provides the powerful drawing tools, numerous templates and samples, and large quantity of vector audit flowchart symbols that greatly facilitate the process of representation the audit steps and audit results, and designing efficient and visually appealing Audit Flowcharts.

Cross-Functional Flowcharts

The Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with cross functional flowchart examples, samples, and libraries of cross functional flow chart vector design elements and CH-1 symbols for easy drawing professional-looking and illustrative Cross Functional Flowchart, Cross Functional Diagram, CH-1 Diagram, Process Flowchart, Deployment Flowchart, Opportunity Flowchart, Swimlane Process Mapping Diagram, or Visio Cross Functional Flowchart for planning and further analyzing, optimizing and improvement processes. The use of included pre-made cross functional flowchart template, opportunity flowchart template, and swimlane process map template, greatly easier designing your Cross-functional flowcharts.

SDL Flowchart Symbols

Drawing the diagrams we try to find in help the powerful software and now we have the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. The ability easily create the SDL diagrams is made possible thanks to unique Specification and Description Language (SDL) Solution from the Industrial Engineering Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. This solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM libraries - SDL Connectors and SDL Diagrams that contain 70 predesigned SDL flowchart symbols.

Process Flowchart Symbols

The Process Flowchart or Process Flowchart Diagram (PFD) is a visual representation relations between major parts of the system, the steps in a process, and even connections between various systems. The possibility to easy create professional-looking and attractive Process Flowcharts, Business Process Diagrams and Maps which visualize the steps of complex processes is provided by Business Process Diagram Solution from the Business Processes Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park and 16 libraries with 230 process flowchart symbols from BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0.

Software for flowchart diagrams

Software for flowchart diagrams can help you: represents an algorithm or process, illustrates a solution to a given problem, represented process operations, analyzing a business process, designing a business process, documenting a business process, optimizing a business process. The Flowcharts Solution from the "Diagrams" area of ConceptDraw Solution Park contains a wide set of predesigned templates, samples and 3 libraries.

Easy Flowchart Maker Free

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM easy Flowchart maker free effectively helps in drawing Flowcharts in short terms and without efforts. The included Flowcharts solution offers all needed drawing tools for designing a truly professional-looking Flowchart.

Sales flowchart - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Sales flowchart" contains 62 sales process flow chart symbols.
Use these flow chart icon set to draw your sales flowcharts, workflow diagrams and process charts with the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The sales process flowchart symbols library "Sales flowchart" is included in the Sales Flowcharts solution from the Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Annotation

Card

Check / audit (diamond)

Check / audit (square)

Collate

Comment / note symbol (brace)

Communication link

Compare (diamond)

Compare (square)

Completed form

Concurrency symbol (fork / join)

Conditional selector

Control transfer

Database

Data input / output

Decision

Decision indicator - No

Decision indicator - Yes

Delay

Direct access storage

Disk storage

Display

Divided process (table view)

Document

Entity (rounded)

Event

Extract

Flow line

Internal storage

Junction symbol

Lined document

Lined / shaded process

Loop limit

Manual file

Manual input

Manual operation

Merge

Multi document

Multi process

Off-page reference - arrow

Off-page reference - incoming

Off-page reference - outgoing

On-page reference/ Inspection point

Page

Paper tape

Predefined process

Prepare conditional

Process step

Reference point

Sequential access storage

Sort

Start (circle)

Start (ellipse)

Stickman pictogram

Stored data

Summary

Tagged document

Tagged process

Terminal point

Title block

Torso pictogram

Used Solutions

Marketing >

Sales Flowcharts

DFD Flowchart Symbols

A Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is a graphical technique which allows effectively model and analyze the information processes and systems. The ability to fast and easy create the DFDs is made possible with Data Flow Diagrams solution from the Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. For designing the Data Flow Diagrams are used simple DFD flowchart symbols which are connected each other by arrows depicting the data flow from one step to another.

HR flowchart - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "HR flowchart" contains 62 flowchart symbols.
Use it to draw your HR flowcharts, workflow diagrams and process charts with the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The flow chart symbols library "HR flowchart" is included in the HR Flowcharts solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Annotation

Card

Check / audit (diamond)

Check / audit (square)

Collate

Comment / note symbol (brace)

Communication link

Compare (diamond)

Compare (square)

Completed form

Concurrency symbol (fork / join)

Conditional selector

Control transfer

Data input / output

Database

Decision

Decision indicator - No

Decision indicator - Yes

Delay

Direct access storage

Disk storage

Display

Divided process (table view)

Document

Entity (rounded)

Event

Extract

Flow line

Internal storage

Junction symbol

Lined document

Lined / shaded process

Loop limit

Manual file

Manual input

Manual operation

Merge

Multi document

Multi process

Off-page reference - arrow

Off-page reference - incoming

Off-page reference - outgoing

On-page reference/ Inspection point

Page

Paper tape

Predefined process

Prepare conditional

Process step

Reference point

Sequential access storage

Sort

Start (circle)

Start (ellipse)

Stickman pictogram

Stored data

Summary

Tagged document

Tagged process

Terminal point

Title block

Torso pictogram

Used Solutions

Management >

HR Flowcharts

Easy Flowchart Software

The most effective and easiest way to design a Flowchart is to use an easy Flowchart software - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is enhanced with the special Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. This software allows designing as simple as complex processes in a moment. And even drawing multiple flowcharts simultaneously on the separate pages of one document or different ones is also possible.

Account Flowchart Stockbridge System
Flowchart Examples

Create your own flow charts of data processing systems using the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. This is a flowchart of a data processing system combining manual and computerized processing to handle accounts receivable, billing, and general ledger.

Network Security Tips

The Internet is a huge world with unlimited possibilities. But with all its numerous advantages, the Internet also conceals many dangers and security threats, that's why we advise you to follow simple network security tips. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software supplied with Network Security Diagrams Solution from the Computer and Networks Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is an ideal software for easy designing Network Security Diagrams and attractive illustrations with effective network security tips.

Cross-functional flowcharts - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Cross-functional flowcharts" contains 31 flow chart symbols. Use it for drawing cross-functional and deployment flowcharts the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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