iGrafx® FlowCharter®
is the most full-featured, easiest to use process analysis and
modeling tool available to help organizations understand and improve
business processes. A graphical representation of processes allows
people to easily comprehend information and quickly focus on the
bottlenecks and issues in a process. Far more robust than generic
charting products, iGrafx FlowCharter is the entry point in the
iGrafx family of process excellence software solutions.
Easily Create
Flowcharts
Process Maps
Swimlane® Diagrams
Value Stream Maps
Cause & Effect Diagrams
FMEA Spreadsheets
Pick Charts
SIPOC Charts
BPMN Diagrams
BPEL Exports*
Customized Templates
And More...
Key Features
Intelligent Swimlane® Diagrams
Minimize time to create and edit process
maps and communicate cross-department process dependencies.
Hierarchical Process Maps and Numbering
Save
time by re-using sub-processes within the model. Shape
numbering changes cascade through the hierarchy improving
model consistency and understanding.
Value
Stream Maps
Save
time editing and updating your product or service VSMs and
then share them with others in your organization.
Extended
Value Stream Maps
Create a
lean view that crosses plant, divisional, and company
boundaries.
Cause
and Effect Diagrams
Describe
causes with linked fishbone, pareto chart, and FMEA views.
Understand which actions will make the biggest positive
impact.
Prioritization Matrix
Spotlight improvement opportunities with color-coded
spreadsheets linked to processes and activities.
Failure
Mode Spreadsheets
Mitigate
failure mode effects faster with FMEA spreadsheets connected
to process models.
Multi-lingual diagrams
Author,
publish and view multi-lingual diagrams in the preferred
language within Web Central.
Intelligent BPMN Diagrams
Accelerate your BPMN projects with automatic
correct-by-construction and rules checking capabilities.
PDF
Publishing
Share
your process models as PDF documents as well as HTML and
Microsoft® Office documents.
Visio®
Import
What's New in iGrafx®
2011
We are pleased to introduce you to iGrafx 2011,
the latest release of iGrafx’s comprehensive business process analysis solution.
iGrafx 2011 provides a range of enhancements and
new capabilities across all components of the iGrafx suite of products.
Significant areas of new functionality include:
iGrafx 2011 introduces iGrafx® Process™ for
Enterprise Modeling, a new client for Business Architects and Analysts
enabling broader modeling and collaboration around enterprise architecture
and supporting dimensions of process models in the organization:
Enterprise Landscape Modeling
IT Architecture and Resource Modeling
Risk and Compliance Management
Strategy and Goal Alignment
Support for SAP® environments: iGrafx 2011
introduces the iGrafx for SAP® Solution, enabling business and IT
stakeholders to manage and define SAP® implementation requirements as
aligned with the larger enterprise perspective.
Support for leading standards: iGrafx 2011
supports the latest BPMN 2.0 and XPDL 2.2 standards for process
documentation and communication providing state of the art process modeling
standards as an option for facilitating corporate wide process initiatives.
When combined with pre-existing capabilities, the
following new and enhanced features deliver benefits enabling organizations to
be agile in their business transformation activities and aggressively pursue
process excellence.
Feature
Benefits
New
Single client access to rich enterprise
modeling & diagramming
Design a balanced scorecard, control
structure and risk catalog together with the process diagrams and models
they are aligned with.
New
Multi-tiered enterprise landscapes
Identify missing process steps and
eliminate duplication by leveraging standard enterprise frameworks.
New
Diagram-based enterprise modeling
Draw enterprise value chains where
process and activity support relationships are automatically defined.
New
Additional enterprise element support
Create a common library of work products
that flow between processes and activities; define audit and control
relationships to business rules; include classes, interfaces, services
and operations in models; model human resources performing tasks under
multiple roles.
New
Integration with SAP® Solution Manager
Create and modify SAP Solution Manager
blueprint projects and project documentation in a business-friendly
tool; align SAP landscapes with the Enterprise Model; create end-to-end
process flows visible from within SAP Solution Manager; report on impact
of SAP processes to operations and organizations of the business.
New
BPMN 2.0 support
Take advantage of the latest version of
the BPMN diagramming standard with updated terminology, indicators,
events, gateways and other functionality.
Enhanced
Lifecycle management
Review, approve and endorse documents
and diagrams via the web. Ensure that process model reviews and
approvals are performed regularly with scheduling and reminders.
Enhanced
Web Central customization
Define navigation paradigms and landing
pages.
Enhanced
Diagram Publishing
Define order of multi-diagram documents.
Enhanced
Improved graphic, line and shape
behavior in diagrams
Display indicators based on custom data
and conditions. Draw process dataflow. Integrate transparent bitmaps
into process diagrams. Move through multi-diagram documents using
off-page connector hot spots.
Enhanced
Process simulation capability
Increased flexibility to handle
exceptions, options for generating transactions and more.
System Requirements
Products
FlowCharter 2011, Process 2011, Process 2011
for Six Sigma, Process 2011 for Enterprise Modeling, Process 2011 for
SAP, and IDEF0 2011
Version
14.0.2.1256
Release Date
22-Nov-2010
O/S
Recommended: Windows XP
SP3; Windows Vista SP1 and later; Windows 7 Supported1:
Windows XP SP2; Windows Server 2003 SP2; Windows Server 2008
Platforms include 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
1Support will be provided for
these platforms and found issues will be investigated.
Internet Explorer 7 or greater
or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or greater
Hardware
800 X 600 16-bit color display
(1024 X 768, 16-bit color recommended)
Mouse or other pointing device
Disk Space
Install Type
Drive C
Specified Install Drive
Total
Typical
61 MB
45 MB
106 MB
Custom
69 MB - 73 MB
49 MB - 55 MB
118 MB - 130 MB
Requirements for Specific Features
Org chart Import and
Export and VSM Export
Import / Export Microsoft®
Access Database
Requires Microsoft Access 2003
or later
Import / Export Microsoft Excel
data
Requires Microsoft Excel 2003 or
later
Import Microsoft Outlook® data
Requires Microsoft Outlook 2003
or later
Publishing to Adobe®
Acrobat® format
Acrobat Reader
Version 8.2 or later is recommended
Publishing to
Microsoft Word® and Microsoft PowerPoint®
Microsoft Office
2003 or later
Publishing as Web
Page (Java)/Publishing a Web Project
32-bit browsers
require Oracle® Java™ Runtime Environment version 1.3 or later*
64-bit browsers require Oracle® Java™ Runtime Environment
version 1.6 update 12 or later
iGrafx Process for
Six Sigma Analysis Features
Minitab® (English,
French, German and Japanese language versions)
+ Minitab 16
+ Minitab 15: Use 15.1, or the latest patch
+ Minitab 14: Use 14.2, or the latest patch. View our knowledge base article for further details
JMP® 7 or later (English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Korean)