Chapter 7 Working with Business Process Models

Importing Visio Diagrams into a BPM

You can import diagrams created in Visio into PowerDesigner. Importing your Visio diagrams into PowerDesigner's rich metadata environment enables you to link your architectural objects with the objects that will implement them, and to profit from PowerDesigner's powerful impact and lineage analysis features.

For information about Impact Analysis, see the Impact and Lineage Analysis chapter in the Core Features Guide .

Installing the Visio plug-in
To import Visio diagrams, you must have Visio installed on your machine and have selected to install the Visio plug-in from the PowerDesigner installer.

Visio provides a menu to export a model into PowerDesigner.

PowerDesigner supports the import of the following Visio versions:

Visio 2002
Visio 2003
Visio 2007

You can import the following diagrams into a BPM:

Visio diagram	PowerDesigner BPM
Audit Diagram	Analysis/ Business Process Diagram
Basic Flowchart	Analysis/ Business Process Diagram
Cross-functional flowchart	Analysis/ Business Process Diagram
Business Process/ Data flow Diagram Software/ Data Flow Diagram	Data Flow Diagram
Event Driven Process Chain Diagram	Business Process Diagram
ITIL Diagram	Business Process Diagram
Work Flow Diagram	Business Process Diagram
Flowchart/ SDL Diagram	Business Process Diagram

For information about the diagrams you can import to the PowerDesigner EAM, see "Importing Visio Diagrams into an EAM" in the Working with Enterprise Architecture Models chapter of the Enterprise Architecture Modeling book.