http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/05/11/zynium-maps-visio-to-bpms/ Bruce Silver's blog on business process management Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/05/11/zynium-maps-visio-to-bpms/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Sandy Kemsley Tue, 30 May 2006 15:56:06 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/05/11/zynium-maps-visio-to-bpms/#comment-88 I had a briefing from Zynium back in April and posted about it <a href="http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2006/04/modelling_proce.php" rel="nofollow">here</a>. You can use a BPMN stencil in Visio when you're using the Byzio product, or use your own stencil of shapes, and the result is exported in XPDL, which is a serialization of BPMN so it is (in a way) "exported" as BPMN. <a href="http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2006/05/bpm_think_tank_13.php" rel="nofollow">XPDL supports round-tripping from the engine back to a modelling tool</a>, although Byzio doesn't do this yet. I had a briefing from Zynium back in April and posted about it here. You can use a BPMN stencil in Visio when you’re using the Byzio product, or use your own stencil of shapes, and the result is exported in XPDL, which is a serialization of BPMN so it is (in a way) “exported” as BPMN. XPDL supports round-tripping from the engine back to a modelling tool, although Byzio doesn’t do this yet.

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