Diagramming for
Business Process Management
with yFiles

With BPMN, both technical and business users can intuitively model complex business processes - so-called collaborations, choreographies, and conversations. BPMN diagrams employ a small number of graphical elements that are easy to understand and remember.

The yFiles diagramming SDK supports the BPMN-DI standard out of the box. You can easily create BPMN tools or components to integrate into your own processes and applications. yFiles represents BPMN without manual work steps, depicts rich nodes, and enables intuitive interactions.

yFiles features efficient, highly customizable algorithms for automatic layouts. The BPMN layout calculates positions for the elements and their connections, creating a clear, clean look. Labels are placed where they are easy to see. With one click, you can create a beautiful BPMN diagram, even from a very confusing list.

The process mining approach is used in all major industries – from banking and insurance, to production and logistics, to transportation and healthcare. This approach seeks to turn event data into insights in order to improve workflows, identify performance issues, or address compliance problems.

A process flow diagram can show the various steps in a processing pipeline, and even how entities move through it. yFiles clearly depicts all processes, using an event log and automatic layout algorithms, so there is no need to manually create diagrams.

The visualization can be customized to focus on aspects of interest – for instance, using a heat map to show capacity limits, outliers or bottlenecks. The yFiles graph analysis algorithms can even identify clusters, shortest paths, cycles, and more.

If the visualization app is linked to real-time data, yFiles lets you monitor or even adapt processes by adjusting the graph. In addition, simulations can be created to test planned changes.

Whether you have a few or tens of thousands of process entities, yFiles is able to render them at the same time in a smooth animation.

A decision tree is incredibly versatile. It visualizes options and their probable outcomes, thus enabling more informed decisions. It can also be a guide for processes with conditional flow, or a way to trace problems back to their source.
Decision trees can be used in many different areas of an organization, and are an important tool of Business Process Management.
See for yourself: Explore the sample use cases in our slideshow.

yFiles automatically transforms simple graphs into interactive decision trees, so that anyone can click through processes step by step. Company systems can be connected and controlled using a decision tree.
Our layout algorithms clearly display the processes and options, and the integrated analysis algorithms automatically highlight critical paths and best options.
All of this can be customized to your individual requirements.

Of course, there are many other ways to depict, analyze, and improve business processes. Our diagramming SDK supports them all.

yFiles lets you map workflows with flowcharts, make business decisions with the help of decision trees, divide processes into swimlanes, record sequences in a Gantt chart, view material flows in a Sankey diagram, or analyze existing processes automatically.

Below, you’ll find interactive live demos that show some good examples. By the way, the source code for them is included in yFiles – even in the free trial!

The strength of yFiles is that it can be used for any model, method, and scenario. Yes, even the ones we didn’t think of.
Just contact us, and we’ll discuss your use case and how yFiles can help.