Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools

This article compares Business Process Modeling Notation tools.

General

Creator Name Platform / OS First public release Latest stable release Software license
ActiveVOS ActiveVOS Windows/Linux 2010-05-12 Commercial/Shareware
Adeptia Adeptia BPM Suite Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris 2001 2010-06 Commercial
Altova UModel Windows 2010-05-05 Commercial/Shareware
Avolution Abacus Windows 2003-03 2010-07 Commercial/Shareware
Appian Corporation The Appian BPM Suite Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX inLinux (SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu) 2003-04 2009-10 Commercial/Shareware
Bizagi BizAgi Process Modeler Windows 2008 2011 Freeware
Borland Borland Together Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris 2009-07-04 Commercial/Shareware
Cordys Cordys Business Operations Platform
Embarcadero Technologies EA/Studio Windows 2009-10 Commercial/Shareware
IDS Scheer Architecture of Integrated Information Systems Cross-platform (browser based) Commercial
Corel iGrafx Windows 2011-05 Commercial
ILOG JViews Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2009-07-31 Commercial/Shareware
Interfacing Technologies Enterprise Process Center Free BPMN Modeler Windows + Visio Freeware
MEGA International Mega Suite Windows 2009 Commercial/Shareware
Microgen Microgen Aptitude Windows, Linux, UNIX 2010 Commercial
Microsoft Microsoft Visio 2010 Windows 2010 Commercial
No Magic MagicDraw Windows, Linux, Mac OS X 2007-09-24 2010-04-26 Commercial/Shareware
Omni Group OmniGraffle Mac OS X 2010 Commercial
Oracle Oracle BPM Suite Windows, Linux Commercial
Orbus software iServer Windows + Visio 2009-11-23 Commercial
Pegasystems BPMSuite
Software AG Enterprise Business Process Manager (EBPM)
SAP AG SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE), component SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) Windows (only?) 2004-03-31 2010-05-17 Commercial
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Windows (Linux and Mac supported) 2000 2011 Commercial
Sun Microsystems Studio Enterprise Edition Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac 2004-12-13 2006-12-11 GPL2
Sybase PowerDesigner 12 Windows 2006-01 2008-10 Commercial/Shareware
Tibco Software Business Studio Windows, Linux 2009-07 Freeware
Troux Technologies Metis 3.6 Enterprise Architecture Suite
Visual Paradigm Visual Architect Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix 2006-03-08 2010-03-29 Commercial/Shareware
yWorks yEd Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix 2011-04-19 Freeware