Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowchart Symbols and Meaning, workflow diagram symbols, process flow diagram 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 PRO 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 PRO. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

How to Build a Flowchart

Mind Map Exchange

This solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with the ability to easily exchange mind maps with a large variety of other mind mapping applications.

PM Presentations

The PM Presentations solution extends the power of ConceptDraw MINDMAP, ConceptDraw PRO, and ConceptDraw PROJECT, improving their efficiency at many stages of the project management process by using the same source data to construct the targeted presentation for your audience and clearly communicating the appropriate information to different audiences from a single source. It gives an ability to project managers and other team participants to create and to deliver capacious presentations representing the data and knowledge of a specific project with the help of including visual dashboards, Gantt charts, resource views, maps, timelines, calendars, illustrations, project diagrams and reports of varied types. Having the possibility to edit collaboratively in a Full-Screen Mode, the teams can rapidly plan a project as well as execute the tasks of revising and making changes to it.

Education Mind Maps

This solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with scientific and educational mind maps for educational documents, presentations, and websites.

Project Exchange

This solution extends ConceptDraw PROJECT and ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with the ability to import and export project data.

Applications

Use ConceptDraw MINDMAP for creative thinking, planning, organization, problem solving, presentations, decision making, note taking, team brainstorming and other tasks.

PM Response

The PM Response solution extends the functional abilities in project management for all three ConceptDraw products by helping to improve the response time to project changes, to plan on how to effectively respond on issues and events impacting the project. It supplies the project managers, team leaders, and all other project participants with wide abilities of iteration planning, creative collaboration, effective decision-making, discussions of the project layout approaches and solving the project challenges, lets them use mind mapping technique for iteration planning and applying the project changes, to represent the projects data as Mind Maps and use them to construct the clear plans, to convert project maps to project implementations, to use different kinds of Visual diagrams to solve the current project problems and to make correct decisions, to plan resources usage and to respond to changes in the project environment.

Quality Mind Map

This solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with Quality Management Mind Maps (Presentations, Meeting Agendas, Problem to be solved).

PM Planning

The PM Planning solution extends the functional abilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT software, allowing to automatically create the spreadsheets reflecting the tasks and project statuses for people who have different project roles. The reporting capabilities of this solution are represented by the possibility to generate a wide range of project reports that allow the project managers, senior management and other project participants to be informed on a project daily progress and monthly objectives: All Inclusive Report, All Visible Columns, Milestones with Notes and Objectives, Projects Goals, Projects Managers, Project Team, and Top Level Tasks. The PM Planning solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park is a strong project management and productivity tool which simplifies the process of reporting and lets one create a document with the desired report, includes the predesigned examples, extends and improves the planning capabilities for all team members, improves the project communication, helps to accurately plan, maintain, and finish projects on time, to track the work of project resources, to perform the analytical work and to make effective decisions.

Collaboration Area

The solutions from Collaboration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park extend ConceptDraw PRO and ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with features, samples, templates and vector stencils libraries for drawing diagrams and mindmaps useful for collaboration.

Project Management Area

Project Management area provides Toolbox solutions to support solving issues related to planning, tracking, milestones, events, resource usage, and other typical project management functions.

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