A get you started introduction to ActiveModeler Avantage

1. ActiveModeler Avantage Overview KAISHA-Tec Corporation December 2008

2. Avantage Overview About ActiveModeler Avantage ActiveModeler Avantage is a new generation standards-oriented BPM (Business Process Modeling) platform. The platform provides BPMN 1.1 compliant process diagram editing, multiple projects, and a .NET process modeling framework. The tool that was designed with extensibility in mind. You can add new features simply by installing a plugin, for example Web Export, Metrics (for cost reduction analysis) or Content Management.

5. Avantage Overview Getting Started When you open Avantage you will see the following:

6. Avantage Overview To get started quickly you can select “Create a new ActiveModeler Avantage BPMN diagram”. This will create a project and process model automatically as we will see.

7. Avantage Overview Choose a project name and press Create:

8. Avantage Overview You will next see this:

9. Avantage Overview You can then give your process model and name e.g. Accounting and the diagram a name e.g. End of month closing procedure:

10. Avantage Overview Now you can define the Organization Structure for the project:

11. Avantage Overview Let’s call it KAISHA-Tec. Now we can add Entities, Departments and Roles as follows:

12. Avantage Overview Now we can start putting down BPMN objects as per the BPMN 1.1 specification. A tip here, if you hold down the CTRL key you can put down many objects of the same time in one operation e.g.

13. Avantage Overview The same for linking, hold down the CTRL key:

14. Avantage Overview You can link Pools/Lanes to the organization structure as follows:

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17. Avantage Overview The “>” in front of Finance means it is linked to the organization structure. In this way you can easily build up a diagram like:

18. Avantage Overview Just one thing – links? To show the link caption do the following:

19. Avantage Overview The link can be moved by pressing the ALT key and moving it with the mouse:

20. Avantage Overview Just move and enter the required text: For more information please see www.activemodeler.com