Process Mapping Tool For Mac

Posted : admin On 14.04.2020

Business Process Mapping Tool
Software For Process Mapping

You don’t have to spend a large amount of money to purchase process mapping software. Instead, you can look on the Internet and find free process mapping tools. You can create, edit and review your maps. In addition, some free process mapping tools enable you to collaborate with your peers.

Gliffy

Gliffy enables you to create professional-looking flowcharts and process maps. Gliffy is a free and web-based process mapping tool that enables you to create flow charts, such as mind maps, organizational charts and data flow diagrams. You drag and drop shapes and connect them with lines. After you have finished creating the process map, you can share it with your colleagues. Gliffy requires that your colleagues use either Windows or Mac OS X operating system and a web browser. Gliffy allows you to share your process maps.

Process Developer

Businesses can use this easy-to-use tool to draw process maps or flowcharts. To use this software, just download the application and install it on your system. You just click on the tool and start creating the maps. Process Developer uses Microsoft Excel’s collection of shapes. This application enables you to map out all of your processes, from designing to manufacturing. You can also use this tool for internal communications, procedural implementation and information flows. Process Developer is designed to help businesses that need to comply with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9000:2000 processes and procedures. According to ISO, ISO is “the world’s largest developer and publisher of International Standards.”

BPMN Modeler

Business Process Mapping Tool

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Modeler enhances process mapping capabilities of Microsoft Visio. BPMN Modeler is an add-on application to Microsoft Visio. This free tool enables you to perform tasks such as creating, reviewing, editing and publishing business processes. BPMN Modeler uses Microsoft Visio’s diagramming functionality as the foundation. This tool enables you to manage activities as objects instead of text. As a result, you can add information that pertains to an activity. According to BPMN Modeler, it “provides the ability to drill-down within multiple levels of a business process hierarchy, and automatically generate multiple outputs to visualize how processes interact.” BPMN Modeler supports Windows XP and works with Microsoft Visio 2003 and 2007.

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Having done a lot of process mapping, here are my thoughts: Simple flows can be done quite nicely in Keynote or PowerPoint. Once you start getting very complex with swim lanes that need to stay aligned, many steps or complex flows you'll need a mapping program.
A business process mapping software can be used to create sophisticated plans as this software will have many advanced process mapping tools. There are many free process mapping software available in the market and users can always use process mapping software open source for all the various planning.

Software For Process Mapping

Visio Online Plan 2 includes Visio desktop, Visio Online, and 2GB of OneDrive storage, making it our most powerful diagramming suite. It’s best for professional diagramming needs. Visio desktop comes with a robust library of built-in and third-party templates and shapes, as well as integrated collaboration tools.

References

Mind mapping is a great way to brainstorm, make a plan, or turn ideas into the steps needed to make it real. Thankfully, there are great tools out there to help you build mind maps, organize them, and save them for later. Here's a look at five of the best, based on your nominations.

Earlier this week, we asked you which mind mapping tools you thought were the best. We tallied up your nominations, and now we're back to highlight the top five.

The poll is closed and the votes are counted! To see which of these five great mind mapping tools took the top spot, head over to our Hive Five Followup post! There you can read about and discuss the winner!

Mindjet (Windows/Mac/iOS)

Mindjet is more than just mind mapping software—it's a total suite of applications and tools designed to help you and the people you work with brainstorm, stay on top of projects, collaborate on tasks, and stay organized together. It's more like a complete project management and collaboration suite. It has an extremely powerful mindmapping and brainstorming tool however, designed from the ground up to help you organize your projects, assign different arms of your projects to different people, flesh out all of the individual to-dos and jobs required to make the whole project a success, and it works just as well if you're working with a hundred people, a dozen people, or just organizing your own to-dos. Plus, it integrates with web services and tools you already use, like Microsoft Office, Box,net, and more. Anyone familiar with the old tool MindManager will be happy to learn it's been rolled into Mindjet's individual apps. Most of Mindjet's users are companies willing to pay for it though: It's $15/mo per user for the individual plan, and $30/mo per user for the enterprise plan.

XMind (Windows/Mac/Linux)

XMind has been around for a good long time, and it even made the roundup the last time we looked at mind mapping apps. It hasn't lost its power though; it's still extremely flexible, works great on any desktop OS, and makes it easy to organize your ideas and thoughts in a variety of different styles, diagrams, and designs. You can use simple mind maps if you choose, or 'fishbone' style flowcharts if you prefer. You can even add images and icons to differentiate parts of a project or specific ideas, add links and multimedia to each item, and more. If you're a project manager, you can even use XMind's built-in Gantt view to manage tasks in a way your colleagues may be familiar with. Best of all, XMind is completely free and open source. If you have some cash to spend, XMind Plus and XMind Pro offer some additional import/export and presentation features, along with some featured targeted at project managers and businesses who want to use XMind on the enterprise level. Plus will set you back $79 one-time, Pro is $99 one-time, and a subscription to Pro and all of its updates is $79/yr.

Coggle (Webapp)

Coggle is a completely free, simple to use mind mapping tool that's easy to get started with. Sign in with a Google account of your choice and you're off and away. Double-click on any item to edit it, and click the plus signs on either side to add branches to your mind map. Click and hold to drag them around the canvas to design your mind map any way you like. Coggle will automatically assign different colors to your branches, but clicking on a branch will bring up a color wheel so you can personalize it yourself. When you've finished a map, you can download it as a PDF or PNG, share it with others who can just view it or, if you allow it, edit your mind map. You even get auto-saving and revision history, so if you want to see what your mind map looked like before someone you invited started working with it, you can. Best of all? Coggle is completely and totally free.

Freemind (Windows/Mac/Linux)

Freemind is a free, GNU General Public Licensed mind mapping app built in Java, so it runs on just about anything you throw it at. It was the winner of our last poll, partially because of its flexibility, and because its features and performance are pretty consistent regardless of the operating system you use with it. It's a pretty powerful mind mapping tool too, offering complex diagrams and tons of branches, graphics and icons to differentiate notes and connect them, and the option to embed links and multimedia in your mind maps for quick reference. Freemind can export your map as HTML/XHTML, PDF, OpenDocument, SVG, or PNG. Compared to a lot of the newer tools it may look a little dated, but it's still powerful and useful, especially if it's function you're looking for, not form.

MindNode (Mac/iOS)

MindNode is an elegant mind mapping and brainstorming app for OS X and iOS. The iOS version is designed to work well on touch devices, specifically the iPad, and makes it easy to drag branches around, add new nodes, connect nodes, share documents with others, and more. The Mac app is similar, and supports sharing your mind map with others and exporting as PDF and as a Freemind project. MindNode can automatically hide branches that have nothing to do with the items you're working on, embed images and screenshots onto nodes, create links on nodes, and even automatically organize your branches for you if they get messy. It can also support linked mind maps. The UI is relatively clean and hides a lot of its features in order to keep things clean, but that doesn't mean it's not powerful. Many of you who nominated it pointed out it's one of the first mind mapping apps you've seen that really does things right on a tablet. MindNode is $20 for the Mac app, and $10 for the iPhone/iPad app.

Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to an all out vote to determine the community favorite.

Honorable mentions this week go out to Scapple and MindMeister, both of which just missed the top five by one or two votes each. Those of you who nominated them praised them for their ease of use. We recently praised Scapple for bringing dead simple mind mapping to the Mac, and we've loved for MindMeister for years. It made the top five the last time we asked you, so it's still a great tool. Also, props go out to Pen and Paper (or whiteboards, if you prefer), which many of you said were your brainstorming tool of choice.

Still, the nominations were so close this time, we're willing to bet you have a favorite that may have been left out! If so, let's hear what it is and why you love it in the discussions below. Include a screenshot or a photo of the app in use if you can, just so we can see what's so great about it!

Have something to say about one of the contenders? Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is—and make your case for it—in the discussions below.

The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it's not because we hate it—it's because it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest, but if you have a favorite, we want to hear about it. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!

Title photo by Marco Antonio Torres.

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