Working with BPMs

The chapters in this part provide information about PowerDesigner features that allow you to check, generate from, and reverse-engineer to your business process models .

• Checking a BPM
  The business process model is a very flexible tool, which allows you quickly to develop your model without constraints. You can check the validity of your BPM at any time.
• Generating and Reverse Engineering Process Languages
  PowerDesigner can generate objects from a BPM and reverse engineer into an existing or new BPM.
• Generating Other Models from a BPM
  You can generate another BPM from your BPM. You can use the BPM to BPM generation to generate an analysis or collaborative BPM into an implementation BPM designed for the different orchestration process languages supported in PowerDesigner (BPEL4WS, WS-BPEL, and SOA).
• Importing Visio Diagrams into PowerDesigner
  Importing your Visio diagrams into PowerDesigner's rich metadata environment enables you to link your architectural objects with the objects that will implement them, and to profit from PowerDesigner's powerful impact and lineage analysis features. You must have installed Visio 2002 or higher and have selected to install the Visio plug-in from the PowerDesigner installer.