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An Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) - flowchart used for business process modelling

Event-Driven Process Chain flowcharts for improvement throughout an organisation.
ConceptDraw PRO is a software for making EPC flowcharts to provide business process modelling. Its excellent business process improvement tools.

Event-Driven Process Chain Diagram Software

It’s very easy, quick and convenient to draw the Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) diagrams in ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software using the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams Solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

EPC

How do you make usually the EPC diagrams? It is quite complex and lengthy process. But now thanks to the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams EPC solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park this process became simple and fast.
"An Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is a type of flowchart used for business process modelling. Event-driven Process Chains can be used for configuring an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation, and for business process improvement. ...
Businesses use Event-driven Process Chain diagrams to lay out business process work flows, originally in conjunction with SAP R/ 3 modeling, but now more widely. It is used by many companies for modeling, analyzing, and redesigning business processes. The Event-driven Process Chain method was developed within the framework of Architecture of Integrated Information Systems (ARIS). As such it forms the core technique for modeling in ARIS, which serves to link the different views in the so-called control view." [Event-driven process chain. Wikipedia]
The event-driven process chain (EPC) diagram template for the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software is included in the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
EPC diagram template
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The business processes modeling (BPM) flowchart sample "Event-driven process chain (EPC) diagram" was created on the base of illustration from "Methods for the specification and verification of business processes. 19 - Event-driven process chains. Roberto Bruni. 2011".
"An Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) is a
particular type of flow-chart that can be used for configuring an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation.
Supported by many tools (e.g. SAP R/ 3).
EPC Markup Language available (EPML)
as interchange format. ...
EPC overview.
Important notation to model the domain aspects of business processes.
Rather informal notation.
EPC focus is on representing domain concepts and processes (not their formal aspects and technical realization).
It can be used to drive the modeling, analysis and redesign of business process." [cli.di.unipi.it/ ~rbruni/ MPB-12/ 19-EPC.pdf]
The event-driven process chain (EPC) diagram example was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
EPC flow chart
EPC flow chart, function, event, AND operator,

Types of Flowcharts

A Flowchart is a graphically representation of the process, algorithm or the step-by-step solution of the problem. There are ten types of Flowcharts. Using the Flowcharts solution from the Diagrams area of ConceptDraw Solution Park you can easy and quickly design the Flowchart of any of these types.
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Solutions of Business Processes area extend ConceptDraw PRO software with samples, templates and vector stencils libraries for drawing business process diagrams and flowcharts for business process management.

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Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning

Flowchart Symbols and Meaning - Provides a visual representation of basic flowchart symbols and their proposed use in professional workflow diagram, standard process flow diagram and communicating the structure of a well-developed web site, as well as their correlation in developing on-line instructional projects. See flowchart's symbols by specifics of process flow diagram symbols and workflow diagram symbols.
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Workflow Diagram Symbols

Workflow diagrams is the acknowledged method to draw processes which have concerted set of symbols you use for depicting different kind of steps or relations. Often it named the process flow diagram but the real process flow diagram use differen visual notations and use different flowchart symbols. The professional workflow diagram also may be used for the same purpose as critical process flow diagram. Nevertheless, there are lots of cases you may need make your workflow diagram more bright and graphic. ConceptDraw PRO extended with the Workflow Diagram solution delivers rich set of workflow diagram symbols helps you make your workflow better-suited for presentations.