Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools

This article provides a comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools.

General

Name	Creator	Platform / OS	BPMN Version	Features	Schema example	First Release	Latest Release	Software license
Activiti Modeler	Alfresco and the Activiti community	Cross-platform	BPMN 2.0	Modeler, Simulation, Execution. Data elements are not supported. Limited supported formats (read/saved internally in BPMN format without exporting capabilities).		2010-05-17[1]	2016-01-29[2]	Apache License 2.0[3]
ActiveVOS	Informatica	Windows, Linux	BPMN 2.0	Modeling, Testing and Execution with open standards.		2005	2014	Proprietary
ADONIS (software)	BOC Information 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	2015	Proprietary / Freeware (requires registration)
ARIS Express	Software AG	Windows (and Linux, Mac unofficially)	BPMN 2.0	Limited supported formats (read: proprietary, Microsoft Visio, write: proprietary, EMF, PDF).		2009-07-28	2014-05-28	Freeware (registration needed)
BiZZdesign Architect	BiZZdesign	Windows	BPMN 2.0	Modeler, Integrate with ArchiMate, User collaboration, Support for Collaboration diagrams, BPMN 2.0 XML Export & Import, Web reporting, Paper reporting, Touchscreen interface available		2012	2014	Proprietary
Bonita BPM	Bonitasoft	Windows, Linux, Mac	BPMN 2.0	Bonita BPM 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. Supports several formats (read: BPMN, jBPM, Bonita, XPDL; write: Bonita, BPMN2, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, BMP, SVG). Does not support Data elements. Does a lot of validations at runtime. Boundary events are transparent.		2001	2016-01-07[4]	GPLv2[5]
Borland Together	Borland	Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris					2009-07-04	Proprietary/Shareware
Camunda Modeler	Camunda	Cross-platform	BPMN 2.0
Edraw Max	EdrawSoft	Cross-platform	BPMN 2.0	Modeler, Simulation, Execution. Supported vsdx, eps, pdf and svg formats.		2010	Proprietary
Enterprise Architect	Sparx Systems	Windows, Linux, Mac	BPMN 2.0	Includes BPMN, BPEL, UML, SysML, BPMN 2.0 XML Import/Export, XSD, WSDL and supports BPMN Simulation		2000	2015-01	Proprietary[6]
edoras one	edorasware	Cross-Platform	BPMN 2.0	Includes BPMN, CMNN, ACM (Adaptive Case Management), DMN 1.0		2005	2016	Proprietary
IBM BlueWorks Live	IBM	Cloud (browser based)	BPMN 2.0					Proprietary
IBM Rational System Architect	IBM	Enterprise Architecture tool	BPMN 2.0+	Enterprise Architecture tool supporting BPMN 2.0 notation (and bidirectional BPMN 2.0 interchange) integrated within EA frameworks such as TOGAF, DoDAF, Archimate, and others. A thin-client sister product, SA/XT, allows creation of BPMN 2.0 models on the web. An SA Design Manager extension publishes the EA with BPMN to web in [RDF] format allowing [SPARQL] queries to produce open-social-gadget dashboards.			2014, September	Proprietary
jBPM	Redhat	Cross-platform	BPMN 2.0	Workflow Engine and Tools			2016-04-19	Apache License
LucidChart	Lucid Software Inc	Cross-platform (browser based)	BPMN 2.0	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
MagicDraw	No Magic	Windows, Linux, Mac	BPMN 2.0			2007-09-24	2014-06-02	Proprietary/Shareware
Pegasystems	Pega BPM	Windows	BPMN 2.0	Supports Process modelling, business analysis and simulation, with publication ad-hoc reporting and advanced collaboration and analysis features. The most advanced method-based business architecture solution available, fully integrated with enterprise Architecture and Compliance and risk.		1991	2014	Proprietary
Microsoft Visio 2013	Microsoft	Windows	BPMN 2.0	BPMN2 Modeling and validation. No support for Data Input/Output. No BPMN file format support (read: Visio, Visio Workflow Interchange; write: Visio, SVG, Autocad, HTML, EMF, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, XPS).			2013	Proprietary
Modelio	Modeliosoft	Windows, Linux, Mac OS	BPMN 2.0	Includes BPMN, UML, SysML, Java round trip code generation, documentation, TOGAF, XSD, WSDL. The boundary events interrupting/non-interrupting symbols are inverted.		2009	2015-11-24[7]	GPLv3[8]
OmniGraffle	Omni Group	Mac					2010	Proprietary
Software Ideas Modeler	Dusan Rodina	Windows, Linux	BPMN 2.0			2009-Aug	2014-Feb	Proprietary
SYDLE SEED Community	SYDLE Systems	Cloud (browser based)		Supports modeling and execution of processes		2012-07	2012-07	Freeware
xFLOWer	Click On Software	Cloud (browser based)	BPMN 2.0	WYSIWYG Process Editor, bundled with a powerful, cloud based workflow&middleware system. Define complex workflowswithout programming and see them run immediately you finish editing!		2001-07	2016-11	Proprietary
yEd	yWorks	Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix	BPMN 2.0	Stores graphics in internal format. Cannot load/save BPMN 2.0 files.			2013-03	Freeware
Name	Creator	Platform / OS	BPMN Version	Features		First Release	Latest Release	Software license

References

1. Alfresco. "Alfresco launches Activiti BPMN 2.0 Business Process Engine". Retrieved 17 September 2013.
2. Activiti. "Activiti Download". Retrieved 2016-03-21.
3. Activiti. "Activiti 5.13 User Guide". Retrieved 17 September 2013.
4. "Bonita BPM 7.1.5 Release Notes | Bonitasoft | Open Source Workflow & BPM software". www.bonitasoft.com. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
5. Bonitasoft. "Download BPM Software And Documentation". Retrieved 17 September 2013.
6. Sparx System's Enterprise Architect. "Enterprise Architect End User License Agreement (EULA)". Retrieved 18 September 2013.
7. "Modelio 341 - Modelio 3 - Modelio Community Forge". forge.modelio.org. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
8. Modelio. "About Mmodelio / License". Retrieved 7 August 2015.

External links

• BPMN Tool Matrix