Process modeling or designing enables BPM practitioners to define processes to achieve organizational objectives.  Skelta’s Process Designer provides web-based process modelng and deployment capabilities.  It is an AJAX based ASP.NET server control that can be embedded in any Web-based product, ASP Engine or Web Page. Skelta’s Visual Process Designer allows you to easily  create, group, zoom in, export, and distribute process designs amongst stakeholders.

Features

Intuitive User Interface

• Visio like interface for ease of use – also import Visio diagrams via IT-Pearls BPMN stencil for Visio
• Rich design experience on a browser 
  • Complete drag and drop functionality
  • Group selection and free movement on design mosaic
  • Resize actions and zoom in or out of complete process definition
  • Auto layout feature

• Easy process definition
  • Wizards for easy process design
  • Quick properties for Wizard for configuring Activities
  • Define values for properties of various action

Comprehensive Activities

Skelta Process Designer provides a complete range of activities under the following categories

Human Activities - Approvals, Checklists, Tasks, Choice, Information, and Work for allowing resources to easily participate in processes.

Integration Activities - XML, XML Variable Interfaces, Web Service, Script, COM, Integration with Office are some of the activities available to allow a process to interact with other applications.

Communication Activities - Skelta’s Process Designer allows processes to be initiated on emails, SMS and other forms of communication and also enables transmission of messages through these channels.

Engine Activities - Decisions, rules, loops, and variable updates are some of the activities that the Skelta Workflow Engine performs as a part of the process.

Scheduler Activities - Skelta offers powerful timer and scheduler functionality for precision scheduling of process activities.

Other Features - Escalations, SharePoint actions for seamless interface with SharePoint sites, libraries and custom lists, out-of-the-box connectors for InfoPath and BizTalk Server, native integration with Outlook are some of the other powerful features in Skelta Process Designer.

Powerful Human Workflow Services

Skelta’s process designer has powerful features for selection of resources for task assignment.  These include:

• Dynamic assignment of tasks based on roles, name, designation or any other attribute present in the resource database. 
• Multi-level calendars for managing resource availability
• Use of alternate actors when resources are not available
• Queue management for management of resources performing similar functions.  Skelta Queue Management allows automatic, semi-automatic and manual modes of task dispatch. FIFO, LIFO, and Round-robin are some of the algorithms supported.

Easy Deployment

Skelta processes can be easily deployed with a single mouse-click.  The Deploy option in the Process Designer automatically maintains process versions.  Deployed versions can also be rolled back to a previous version.