SIMPROCESS 4.5 Release Notes

A great new feature released with version 4.5 is SIMPROCESS models can be exported to PowerPoint compatible files.

New Bundling features allow the creation of a model bundle file and extraction from a bundle file as an improved method of gathering all model related artifacts for exchange with other SIMPROCESS users. A bundle file contains a SIMPROCESS model along with the model’s directory and any associated metamodels and Dashboards. See Chapter 17 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for details.

The ability to set Attributes on a Spreadsheet generation schedule was added, reducing the need to use Expressions. See Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information.

A new Database generation schedule was added, which allows Entities to be generated and Attributes to be set from an SQL database. See Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information.

Connections to external data sources can be created by defining File, Spreadsheet, or Database Input Sources. Input Sources appear in the SIMPROCESS distribution list. See Chapter 3 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information.

New Bundling features allow the creation of a model bundle file and extraction from a bundle file as an improved method of gathering all model related artifacts for exchange with other SIMPROCESS users. A bundle file contains a SIMPROCESS model along with the model’s directory and any associated metamodels and Dashboards. See Chapter 17 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for details.

The SPUser/SampleFiles/BPMN directory now contains a Library of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) BPMN Activity and Process templates. Instructions for importing the Library are located in that directory.

There is now a collection of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) metamodels that can be used to include BPEL metadata in a model; also enhanced metamodel handling to allow nesting of directories within the "metamodel" directory.