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Synthis Process Modeler - Today's Free File
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 6th 2006 at 5:05PM
Similar to Microsoft's
venerable Project app, or (my favorite) FastTrack Schedule, Synthis Process Modeler is a flowcharting/process
modeling/doc manager app that is free for the price of an email address. I said similar, becase this is more document
and process management, and isn't really designed for timelines. It's pretty robust for a freeware app, but the catch
is, for the true ISO9000 or Sarbanes-Oxley features, you'll wind up paying for a server edition, or at least some
consulting time with Synthis. It's an interesting way to sell services (not that it's unique), giving away the client
software to tantalize the user into the larger products or services. Would you like to super size that?The Process Modeler itself looks like a pretty good product by itself, however. If you're a one-man show having to manage some project assets, or if you manage a smaller project, I can definitely see this as being useful. Process mapping is drag and drop, linking elements is a right-click away, and publishing to a website (the HTML anyway) is a simple menu button affair. It's hard to make process management exciting though, which I guess explains the monochromatic look of the app and it's icons. Worth a look for small teams though.
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Galt said 3:31AM on 2-13-2006
One of the products my company recently started using - IRIS from Osellus Inc. has a very intereseting flash based process modeling interface.
It's not free of course and are meant for larger organizations but it's definitely worth a look.
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J. Roberto Fraustro said 10:44PM on 3-30-2006
You can register your email in order to use the software, and it only accepts company mails, no hotmail, etc.
But if you don't have a company email or you don't want to give them, only change the date (like 2005) in your computer whenever you want to use the app, and you will have more days for trial.
But If you activate your account you will have access to the forum for help or whatever
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