Petals BPM : what do you think of our new BPMN designer ?

[Graham Crosmarie]

Hello,

Petals Link is a company based in Toulouse which is specialized in
open source SOA developments and which therefore is active on the
Business Process Modeling front.

Particularly, we have developed an open source online BPMN 2.0 editor
called PetalsBPM which has just been released and presented at BPM
2011.

It can be used directly from a web navigator (works better with
Firefox) and needs no download or set up -> http://bpmneditor.ebmwebsourcing.com/

This designer allows you to create new BPMN 2.0 diagrams from scratch,
import diagrams from BPMN 2.0 or XPDL 2.1 and export the modelled
diagrams to BPMN 2.0, XPDL 2.1 or BPEL 2.0.
Petals BPM defines two kind of projects :
- Descriptive projects for business process modeling.
- Executable projects for process execution (requires good knowledge
of BPMN and WSDL).

For the moment, it can only design BPMN 2.0 processes. Collaborations
and Choreographies are our next development steps.

We would be glad to have your feedback on our product in order to
improve it and make it fit as much as possible the needs of BPMN
modelers.

You can have a try at Petals BPM at http://bpmneditor.ebmwebsourcing.com/

Some documentation is available at :
http://research.petalslink.org/display/petalsbpm/Petals+BPM+-+Open+source+BPMN+2.0+modeler

If you have any question or remarks, a contact form is available :
http://research.petalslink.org/display/petalsbpm/Contact

Thanks in advance,


Graham Crosmarie
R&D Engineer
Petals Link (http://www.petalslink.com/en)