Migrating Visio BPMN into EA

[Ian Mitchell]

Does anyone have any faster way of migrating Visio BPMN diagrams into EA?
I am using the 'MDG Visio Importer' but whilst it's great on the geometry of the diagrams, its hopeless at creating the correct element types & stereotypes: everything seems to stereotypes of a single type (Activity looked easiest), but the EA BPMN uses lots of element types. Also, the source BPMN has lots of line types, and they all come out as a single one. And every line needs to be made 'Orthogonal rounded', which is really, really dull....
There MUST be a better way than spending an hour correcting each diagram!

[qwerty]

Ian, this is a real shot in the dark. But AFAIR Visio is just for diagramming, not for modeling. It has no idea of elements and stereotypes. These are probably invented by the importer. Maybe some AI might help, but the future has not come yet.

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[Ian Mitchell]

I agree that Visio is from the Dark Side, but I'm trying to get this (very large) customer to come over to the EA world, and they have LOTS of diagrams in Visio. Thinking about writing a custom-importer. Yet more code to write...

[qwerty]

I guess the best approach is to do some automated post-processing like making the connectors appear the way you want. A lot of work, but that's what we are paid for.

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