The Oryx Project
Oryx is an academic Open Source project that allows you to add your prototypes to a powerful process modeling infrastructure. The project is mainly driven by the Business Process Technology research group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute.
Academic use & research
For students, lecturers and researchers: Create BPMN 2.0 diagrams, EPCs or Petri nets online
The Signavio-Oryx Academic Initiative provides an online platform for process modeling and analysis that you can use free of charge. Sign up and invite your students or colleagues into your work space.
Sign up to the academic platform
Research prototypes
Oryx is an open source business process management platform. Started at Hasso Plattner Institute in 2006, Oryx has attracted many universities world wide, who have contributed to the Oryx infrastructure and functional, mostly research specific extensions. Read the wiki, watch screencasts, launch editor.
Communities
Discussion forums for BPMN 2.0
Oryx-based technology serves as an embedded editor in several online communities.
If you are a member of www.bpm-netzwerk.de then you can directly access the German forum at bpmn.info.
If you are looking for an English or a Russian forum then please go to bpmncommunity.org.
Process modeling in Google Wave
The processWave.org editor is a prototype created by HPI students in their end-of-study project and was first presented at Google I/O 2010. The editor embeds into Google Wave as a gadget. It enables real-time collaboration in process modeling.
Commercial use
Commercial process modeling and analysis
The Signavio Process Editor is a commercial tool that provides all features needed for professional Business Process Analysis (BPA). 10% of Signavio are based on Oryx while 90% are closed source additions.
You can subscribe to the Software as a Service (SaaS) platform or purchase On-premise licenses.
Process automation / workflow
The Activiti project provides a powerful Open Source execution environment. It is sponsored by Alfresco and SpringSource. The Activiti Modeler enables graphical modeling of executable business processes.