Modeling and Monitoring Displays Advanced editing Rapid integration Supporting industry standards

Business process management (BPM) systems help companies manage business processes more efficiently. ILOG JViews Diagrammer provides all the necessary components for building BPM modelers and monitoring displays.

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Modeling and Monitoring Displays
ILOG JViews Diagrammer features powerful tools for creating state-of-the-art interfaces, including predefined workflow icons; smart diagramming capabilities; real-time screen-element animation; and a complete set of editing functions. With JViews Diagrammer, Java developers can create a new class of diagram and dashboard interfaces, including advanced workflow modelers, executive dashboards and administrator screens.

Advanced editing
A full-featured editor, Workflow Modeler, defines business processes in a highly graphical, intuitive manner. Workflow Modeler offers:

• Drag-and-drop editing
• Predefined palettes with graphics that represent workflow tasks and participants
• Connection tools for linking tasks
• Process and subprocess representation (with expand/collapse functions)
• Smart diagram-layout algorithms for automatically rearranging workflow elements into the most meaningful representations
• Property editors
• Complete set of editing tools, including cut-and-paste, selection, zooming-and-panning, and printing


• XML input and output


• Complete editor source code, for altering look-and-feel and custom connections to back-end processes

Rapid integration
To populate itself, the data model reads workflow-definition XML files by default. The data model's API can connect to any data source, like an application server, database, or custom connection. Provided as a set of ready-to-use Pure Java components, the package also contains a comprehensive Java API that allows developers full "under the hood" access. ILOG JViews Diagrammer can be used with any interactive development environment, and alongside any other Java interface component.

Supporting industry standards
ILOG is an active part of the workflow community, working to ensure that industry standards protect technology investments. As a member of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC), ILOG is helping to develop and promote standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products.

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a new standard that helps analysts and developers model business processes. Once a BPMN-enabled solution is deployed, users have greater visibility, collaboration and control over business processes. The first graphics toolkit to support BPMN, ILOG JViews Diagrammer makes it easier for companies to adopt the standard quickly.

Try these Diagrammer demos:

• Business Process Modeler
• Ajax dashboard
• Workflow monitoring

Downloads

• Free Application: ILOG JViews BPMN Modeler
  Start modeling your business processes with BPMN. Save the processes as XML so that you can share them or include them in other applications.

• White Paper: JViews for BPM Visualization (PDF, 1.3 MB)
  When tools have better interfaces, business users are more effective throughout the process life cycle–from process definition to monitoring to performance analysis. This paper explains how ILOG JViews helps developers create intuitive interfaces. Learn about relevant features and the technology behind them. See how easily JViews products can be integrated into leading BPM solutions.