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

Flowchart Software

The Flowcharts are popular and widely used for designing, documenting, managing and analyzing the complex processes and programs in various fields, such as science, business, engineering, architecture, manufacturing, administration, and many others. To design professional looking Flowchart Diagrams we recommend to use the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with set of Flowchart maker solutions from the Diagrams, Finance and Accounting, Marketing, and Business Processes areas of ConceptDraw Solution Park. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM flowchart software is rich for the libraries of ready-to-use predesigned vector flowchart objects, templates, samples and examples, which make it the best choice for designing the Flowcharts of any type and style. Besides, the ConceptDraw documents with Flowchart Diagrams are vector graphic documents, available for reviewing, modifying and converting to different popular formats: image, HTML, PDF file, MS PowerPoint Presentation, Adobe Flash or MS Visio XML.

Decision Making

The Decision Making solution offers the set of professionally developed examples, powerful drawing tools and a wide range of libraries with specific ready-made vector decision icons, decision pictograms, decision flowchart elements, decision tree icons, decision signs arrows, and callouts, allowing the decision maker (even without drawing and design skills) to easily construct Decision diagrams, Business decision maps, Decision flowcharts, Decision trees, Decision matrix, T Chart, Influence diagrams, which are powerful in questions of decision making, holding decision tree analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), visual decomposition the decision problem into hierarchy of easily comprehensible sub-problems and solving them without any efforts.

Decision Maker

The Decision Making solution extends the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software with 7 vector stencils libraries with the pre-designed elements that can be used for the fast representation of the needed business decision maps, flowcharts, diagrams, infographics and matrices. The mentioned drawings include the decision flowcharts, flowcharts, trees, diagrams, pictograms, arrows, callouts, charts, maps, tables and signs. It also offers the pre-made decision diagrams’ examples and templates that all can be used for any needed business decision mapping. Learning media and other documents as a part of this solution may teach the decision-makers the best practices in decision making and diagramming infographic design.

Business Process Mapping

The Business Process Mapping solution has a collection of vector graphic libraries, pre-made templates, and examples of the business process maps. They are useful for many business specialists including economists, politicians, analysts, and other economic experts, officials and state managers for making the unique and professionally looking drawings. Use it to create an effective Business process map, SIPOC diagram, Swim lanes flowchart and clearly define the necessary business processes due to their inputs and outputs.

Decision Tree Analysis

Decision trees are widely used in operations research. It is mostly applied in decision analysis in order to help and identify that strategy that most likely may lead to reaching a goal. It is also known as a popular tool in machine learning, thus it worth knowing about it from this article.

The ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software is the one that can help with creating the needed drawing, including a decision tree. Making decision tree analysis, it is always easy to make the needed matrix as there are plenty of pre-made templates to be used.

Business Process Modeling Tools

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM the best business process modeling tools.contains pre-designed libraries and templates based on the BPMN 2.0 standard that allows to create of both simple and complex (nested) models of processes.

Block Diagrams

Block Diagrams solution with the pre-made templates, samples and stencil libraries full of vector elements can be used for drawing any needed Block diagram, Functional block diagram, or Block flow diagram. Using the created block diagrams for visualizing the high-levelled concepts of engineering, software system design and business, any business owner has a chance to succeed in doing what he is meant to. Many business specialists, business owners, and project managers will find the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM block diagram creator with Block Diagrams solution useful for drawing the 2D and 3D Block diagrams as using the pre-designed objects.

Donut Chart Templates

These donut chart templates was designed using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Pie Charts solution from Graphs and Charts area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. All these donut chart templates are included in the Pie Charts solution. You can quickly rework these examples into your own charts by simply changing displayed data, title and legend texts.

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Compatibility with MS Visio

The powerful diagramming and business graphics tools are now not exception, but the norm for today’s business, which develop in incredibly quick temp. But with the abundance of powerful business diagramming applications it is important to provide their compatibility for effective exchange the information between the colleagues and other people who maybe use different software in their work. During many years Microsoft Visio™ was standard file format for the business and now many people need the visual communication software tools that can read the Visio format files and also export to Visio format. The powerful diagramming and vector drawing software ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is ideal from the point of view of compatibility with MS Visio. Any ConceptDraw DIAGRAM user who have the colleagues that use MS Visio or any who migrates from Visio to ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , will not have any problems. The VSDX (Visio′s open XML file format) and VDX formatted files can be easily imported and exported by ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , you can see video about this possibility.

BCG Matrix

The growth–share matrix (BCG Matrix) was created by Bruce D. Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group in 1970 to help corporations to analyze their business units and to help the company allocate resources. How is it easy design the BCG Matrices in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software supplied with unique Matrices Solution from the Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Website Wireframe

The innovative Website Wireframe solution enhances the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM functionality with newest wireframe tools, libraries with variety of predesigned icons, symbols, buttons, graphics, forms, boxes, and many other vector elements, templates and professionally designed samples, which make it the best wireframing software. Website Wireframe solution gives you significant advantages when designing and maintaining websites, creating skeletal and content-free depictions of website structure, making website prototypes and planning the content arrangement before committing to design, also speeds up the processes of sketching, producing and sharing wireframe examples of website style and interface design.

ATM UML Diagrams

The ATM UML Diagrams solution provides a selection of text boxes, pre-made templates, and icons that allow one to map the software process of any ATM (Automated Teller Machine) by using a variety of professionally made UML examples for creating a unique design. Being available for all ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users, the ATM UML Diagrams solution may be especially useful for all banking industry software specialists in order to design and build the needed ATM solutions and systems. Use ConceptDraw DIAGRAM as a UML diagram creator to visualize effectively a banking system.

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, including Mindjet MindManager, FreeMind, XMind, project management software ConceptDraw PROJECT and Microsoft Project, also other Microsoft Office products, etc.

Banking System

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with ATM UML Diagrams Solution from the Software Development Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a powerful software for representing the ATM processes, for designing and building banking system and ATMs.