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Users build an AgilePoint process model using AgilePoint Envision, which is built on Microsoft Visio. AgilePoint is the first BPMS to extend Visio into a full lifecycle BPM productivity tool, from design to production.

• The created process model can be saved in Microsoft Visio format to facilitate sharing and collaboration throughout the design process.
• Process models created in AgilePoint Envision can be deployed directly to AgilePoint Server, the BPM engine, for execution. To facilitate enterprise deployment methodology, AgilePoint Envision supports the deployment to multiple target server environments, such as development, testing, staging, and production.
• As part of the deployment process to AgilePoint Server for execution, the process model is converted into XML format.

When customization and/or IT abstraction is need, application developers can then use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET based AgilePoint Developer to perform the following:

• Create a standard Visual Studio .NET based AgilePoint project to add custom application code and integrate the application logic with the associated process models.
• Create AgileParts to abstract IT functionality for direct leverage and reuse at the process level.

By enabling full customization through associating a Visual Studio .NET project with a Visio based process model, AgilePoint separates the process definition from underlying code and technologies. This is a compelling advance over competing BPMS products. Like its tiered architecture, this design facilitates flexibility, reusability and manageability that are key to power adaptive BPM process-based applications.