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Design software and manage projects effortlessly with an all in one suite – all wrapped up in an integrated environment.

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Visual Modeling

Our powerful visual modeling tools assist you in building and managing your diagrams and model elements effectively:

  • Intuitive drag-and-drop diagram editor
  • Support for UML , BPMN , ArchiMate , DFD , ERD , SoaML , SysML , CMMN
  • Efficient modeling tools including element reusability, diagram and element transformation, syntax validation, custom properties, and more
  • Wide range of formatting options

Enterprise Architecture

Utilize our industry-unique TOGAF ADM lifecycle tool , along with DoDAF, NAF, and MODAF tools, trusted by the world's leading enterprises.

  • Process navigation tool that guides you through the ADM phases.
  • Actionable steps: Perform ADM activities within our tool, accompanied by guides and clear examples - no training required.
  • Extensive range of ADM tools, including ArchiMate, Capability Analysis, and ADM deliverable tools.
  • Auto-generated TOGAF deliverables.

Business Analysis & Design

Benefit from our comprehensive suite of business tools designed to enhance your business's efficiency and productivity.

  • Strategic Planning : Utilize our process management tool to discover and define your business's strategic goals.
  • Process Design : Visualize business workflows with BPMN , document working procedures for activities, and generate high-quality process reports.
  • Process Analysis : Study workflows using our process animation tool , and determine optimal resource allocation with our process simulation tool.
  • Process Reengineering : Utilize our Reengineering process management tool to document your plan, design new processes, identify gaps, and monitor improvements (KPIs).

Project Management

Maximize your software project outcomes with our comprehensive suite of project management tools.


Agile & Scrum Development

Full set of agile backlog and process management tools that makes your agile projects more effective.

  • User story mapping :
    • Drag and drop story creation and arrangement.
    • Story estimation tool – Affinity table.
    • Sprint backlog management
  • Scrum Process Canvas :
  • Scrum Process Canvas that helps your team manage entire Scrum Project in one page including: all the Scrum roles, events and artifacts. Perform the activities right within the map. Generate Scrum reports in seconds.


Online Diagrams

Zero setup & configuration based on cloud technology for easy diagram creation and team collaboration.

  • Convenient drag-and-drop diagram editors
  • 100+ diagram types, covering all kinds of business, technical and general diagrams.
  • 1000+ diagram templates to help you start quick.
  • Web-based – Works well in different web browsers, and in any platform
  • The best Visio alternative both in terms of features and pricing
  • Embed your diagrams into MS Documents and Presentations for display and quick editing

User Experience Design

Clarify stakeholders' needs with our powerful user experience tools.


Customer Experience Design

Uncover improvement opportunities through comprehensive analysis of the customer experience. Utilize a Customer Journey Map (CJM) to gain insights into customers' behaviors, thoughts, and feelings across their journey, enabling the development of business plans rooted in customer value.


Code & Database Engineering

Bridge the gap between system design and implementation, with our code and database engineering support.

Code engineering tools:


Database engineering tools :

  • Export database/DDL from ERD
  • Generate ERD from database/DDL

Process Map Designer

Plan and design business operations with our flexible 2D process map designer .

  • Matrix-style Process Map editor
  • Over 40 business & technical process templates
  • Unlimited rows and columns
  • Configurable data format: Text, List, Bullet, etc
  • Data visualization with charts

Team Collaboration

Let your team work concurrently, collaboratively and smoothly on same projects. Our cloud-based repository keeps your work securely on the cloud and makes it accessible anytime and anywhere.


Powerful Document Builder

Powerful Doc. Composer that enables you to build your report - Drag and drop model elements onto the document editor and that's it! Thousands of element templates are available, and you can even create your own and reuse it in every report.


Discover the Best Fit for Your Needs

  • Enterprise
  • Professional
  • Standard
  • Modeler
  • Community
UML diagram Enhanced
SysML diagram Enhanced
ER diagram (ERD) Enhanced
Online diagram editor New
Plug-in development
Business Model Canvas
Diagram templates & examples
BPMN diagram (business process mapping)
Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
Team collaboration New
  • Cloud workspace
  • Commit and update project
  • Branch and tag
  • Revision archiving - browse history and roll-back
Diagram review and commenting
Task management
Project glossary management
Textual analysis
EPC diagram (Event-Driven Process Chain)
Organization chart
Use case description
User Story
  • 3C's - Card, Confirmation, Conversation
  • Scenario editor
  • Story-based storyboard
  • Visualize story in diagram
UX wireframe
UX storyboard
UX wireflow
  • Path definition with component-based scenes
  • Path definition with wireframed scenes
  • Animated wireflow
UX prototyping tool
High fidelity mockup tool
Code engineering
  • Generate / update code from UML
  • Generate UML from code
  • Round-trip engineering
Visual REST API designer
  • Visual REST API designer
  • Generate Swagger / OpenAPI / API blueprint formatted API
  • Generate API documentation
Database engineering New
  • Generate / update database from ERD
  • Generate ERD from database
  • Generate & reverse DDL
Hibernate (ORM)
Document generation Enhanced
  • Doc. Composer
  • Project Publisher
Customer Journey Map
Gantt chart
Process Map Designer
  • Matrix-style Process Map editor
  • Over 40 business & technical process templates
  • Unlimited rows and columns
  • Configurable data format: Text, List, Bullet, etc
  • Mergeable cells
  • Use image in cells
  • Data visualization with charts
Analysis Canvas
Mind mapping
  • Mind map diagram
  • Brainstorm diagram
SoaML diagram
Diagram animation
Advanced model management
  • Project referencing
  • Model transformation
  • Model Transitor
  • Shape Legend
  • Color Legend
  • Model Nicknamer
  • Diagrams comparison tool
  • Design pattern tool
RACI and CRUD chart
STEPS wizards
Impact analysis
  • Analysis diagram
  • Matrix tool
Decision table
Zachman Framework
User Story Mapping & Agile tools
  • User Story Map
  • Sprint backlog
  • Story estimation: Affinity Table
  • Burndown chart
  • Scrumboard
Scrum Framework Tool
  • One-page Scrum process canvas
  • Actionable work items
  • Prioritized product backlog with story map integration
  • Sprint backlog
  • Effort-estimated task list
  • Daily Scrum meeting records
  • Impediment log
  • Burndown chart
  • Scrum board
  • Sprint review and retrospective management
  • Iterative sprint data management
  • Release and deliverable management
  • Scrum team and stakeholder management
  • Project retrospective management
  • Automatic report generation and archiving
  • Integration with task management
LeSS Framework Tool
  • Product backlog management
  • Sprint backlog management
  • Team management
  • Task management
  • User acceptance management
  • Daily scrum management
  • Impediment management
  • Sprint retrospective
  • Burndown chart
Nexus Framework Tool
  • Product backlog management
  • Sprint backlog management
  • Team management
  • Task management
  • User acceptance management
  • Daily scrum management
  • Impediment management
  • Sprint retrospective
  • Burndown chart
Scrum Process Canvas customization
Project Management Lifecycle Guide-Through
  • Project management lifecycle navigator
  • Four Process Schemes that Fits Different Project Complexity
  • Actionable work items
  • Diagram and form-based artifacts
  • Automatic deliverable generation and archiving
Project management Just-in-Time Process Map
PMBOK Just-in-Time Process Map
Strategic Planning Guide-Through
  • BMM process navigator
  • Actionable work items
  • Diagram and form-based artifacts
  • Automatic deliverable generation and archiving
Business Process Reengineering Canvas
  • One-page BPR process canvas
  • Actionable work items
  • As-is process modeling
  • To-be process modeling
  • Gap analysis
  • WBS - Structure reengineering works
  • Work package portfolio
  • Implementation plan
  • KPI & performance assessment
  • Reengineering team management
  • Automatic report generation and archiving
Business Process Reengr. Canvas customization
Quality Control Canvas
On-Demand Model ETL
Form builder
Tabular (Multi-purpose spreadsheet-based editor)
PERT Chart
Breakdown Structure Chart
Cause and Effect diagram
Roadmap & implementation plan
Radar chart
Visual file cabinet
Business rule management
  • Business rule grid
  • Fact model
CMMN diagram
BMM diagram
ArchiMate diagram
  • ArchiMate diagram
  • ArchiMate viewpoints
TOGAF ADM Guide-Through
  • TOGAF ADM cycle navigator
  • Actionable work items
  • Diagram and form-based artifacts
  • Automatic deliverable generation and archiving
TOGAF ADM Guide-Through customization
TOGAF ADM Just-in-Time Process Map
DoDAF
NAF
MODAF
Just-in-Time Process Map
  • Drag-and-Drop process map creator
  • Massive actionable work items
  • Deliverable composer
Just-in-Time Process Map customization
Enterprise Model Finder
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Diagramming tools

Visual Paradigm provides both more formal notation modeling and casual drawing capability. Diagrams under modeling categories such as UML, BPMN, etc. comes with a data model for further manipulation i.e. code engineering, syntax & consistency check, etc. Diagram under Casual drawing category provides 150+ types of diagrams charts and business graph which can be accessed in both desktop and cloud platform. Note that you must be online with internet access (or on-premises server installed for commercial editions) to enjoy the web compatible diagramming features below.

  • Enterprise
  • Professional
  • Standard
  • Modeler
  • Community
Software design tool
Use case diagram
Class diagram
Activity diagram
Sequence diagram
Deployment diagram
State machine diagram
Component diagram
Package diagram
Entity Relationship Diagram
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Hexagonal architecture diagram
Data Flow Diagram
Yourdon DeMarco DFD
Yourdon and Coad diagram
SSADM DFD
Gane Sarson diagram
C4 model
Functional Flow Block Diagram
Business design tool
System context diagram
Problem flow diagram
Information flow diagram
Affinity diagram
Marketing funnel
ToFu, MoFu, BoFu
AIDA funnel
Kotter's 8-Step Change Model
Brand Essence Wheel
Circular flow diagram
BPMN Business Process Diagram
Causal loop diagram
Enterprise architecture diagram
Lewin's change model
Empathy map
Stock and flow diagram
Value Stream Mapping
Dendrogram
ArchiMate diagram
Project management tool
Arrow diagram
Stakeholder matrix
Solution selection matrix
MoSCoW method
ADKAR
Enhanced PERT Chart
Roadmap
NASA project lifecycle
Work Breakdown Structure
Resource breakdown structure
Risk breakdown structure
Functional decomposition diagram
Flowchart maker
Flowchart
Swimlane flowchart
Cross-Functional flowchart
SDL diagram
Audit flowchart
Accounting flowchart
Organizational chart tool
Organization Chart
Family tree
Genogram
Kinship diagram
Pedigree chart
Six Sigma / Quality management tool
PDCA
5S
6S
Critical to Quality Tree (CTQ Tree)
Threat model
PICK diagram
Defect concentration diagram
TQM diagram
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
SIPOC diagram
UX design tool
Site map diagram
Material design wireframe
Atlassian wireframe
Wired UI diagram
Fluent Design wireframe
Floor plan designer
Floor plan maker
Seating chart tool
Network diagram tool
Network diagram
Rack diagram
Cloud service architecture designer
AWS architecture diagram
Azure architecture diagram
Google Cloud Platform diagram
IBM Cloud architecture diagram
Alibaba Cloud architecture diagram
Huawei Cloud architecture diagram
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure diagram
Tencent Cloud architecture diagram
Engineering diagram tool
Logic diagram
Circuit diagram
Wiring diagram
Process Flow Diagram (PFD)
Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)
Block flow diagram
Brainstorming tool
Concept map diagram
Bubble diagram
Cluster diagram
Circle map
Bridge map
Flow map
Diamond ranking
PMI chart
Concept fan
Topic map
Reverse brainstorming
Stepladder technique
COCD box
X chart
Y chart
T chart
Lotus diagram
Star diagram
Starbursting
Disney's Creativity Strategy
Mind Mapping
Round-Robin brainstorming
Brainwriting
Strategic analysis tool
SWOT analysis
Vision and Strategy
BCG matrix
McKinsey 7S framework
GE McKinsey matrix
Ansoff Matrix
SCAMPER
Perceptual map
Ohmae's 3C model
4Qs framework
Strategy map
Balanced Scorecard
SOAR analysis
TOWS analysis
Competitor analysis
Value chain analysis
PEST analysis
Five Forces analysis
Four Corners analysis
Data visualization tool
Column chart
Grouped column chart
Stacked column chart
100% stacked column chart
Bar chart
Grouped bar chart
Stacked bar chart
100% stacked bar chart
Line chart
Curved line chart
Stacked line chart
100% stacked line chart
Step chart
Pie chart
Doughnut chart
Area chart
Stacked area chart
100% stacked area chart
Stepped area chart
Column and line chart
Grouped column and line chart
Stacked column and line chart
Butterfly chart
Histogram
Bubble chart
Scatter chart
Gauge chart
Double doughnut chart
Semi doughnut
Nightingale rose chart
Pictorial chart
Pyramid chart
Funnel chart
Radial chart
Stacked radial chart
100% stacked radial chart
Rose chart
Stacked rose chart
100% stacked rose chart
Heat map
Tree map
Control chart
Pareto chart
Geo map
Geo heat map
Floating column chart
Floating bar chart
Stream graph
Candlestick
OHLC chart
Sankey diagram
Difference chart
Punch card
360 punch chart
Boxplot
Marimekko chart
Stacked bar mekko chart
Variwide chart
Range area chart
Range spline area chart
Range step area chart
Decision analysis tool
Influence diagram
Force field analysis
Futures wheel
OODA loop
Decision tree
Problem solving tool
Interrelationship diagram
5 whys
5W1H
Driver diagram
How-How diagram
Why-Why diagram
Current Reality Tree
Future Reality Tree
Transition tree
Prerequisite tree
Evaporating cloud
Root cause analysis
General diagram
Block diagram
KWL chart
Reframing matrix
Eisenhower matrix
Dichotomous key
Venn diagram
Euler diagram
Timeline diagram
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