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BPMN Converter Tool

Client
Frontend

Overview

A migration tool that converts legacy BPMN views into validated BPMN 2.0 diagrams. Features a review-first workflow with pre-conversion validation, compatibility checking, and layout preview. The tool enables safe migration with zero data loss, reducing migration time from weeks to days while ensuring BPMN 2.0 compliance and unique naming enforcement.

Project Details

Situation

With the new BPMN editor in place, we needed to help all customers migrate their existing legacy BPMN views to the new Processes module. Manual migration would take weeks per customer, risk data loss, and introduce BPMN 2.0 compliance issues without a clear validation step.

Task

As part of a team effort, I contributed to developing a migration tool that would convert legacy BPMN views into new BPMN diagrams with a review-first flow, BPMN 2.0 validation feedback, and unique naming rules, ensuring safe migration and reduced time-to-adoption.

Action

Working collaboratively with the team, we developed a comprehensive migration tool that implemented BPMN 2.0 compliance checking, validation logic, and compatibility checking. I contributed to building a pre-conversion review interface that let users pick legacy BPMN views from a Converter tab, inspect owner and edit metadata, track conversion status, and preview converted layouts before saving. The conversion flow surfaced BPMN 2.0 validation results, allowed layout adjustments, and saved the output as a new BPMN diagram with unique naming rules.

Takeaway

This project highlighted that migrations succeed when validation, preview, and auditability are built into the flow. Clear conversion indicators and unique naming rules reduce user error and build confidence during platform transitions.

Results & Impact

Customers were able to convert legacy BPMN views into validated BPMN diagrams with a review-first flow, conversion status visibility, and layout adjustments before saving. Migration time dropped from weeks to days while preserving BPMN 2.0 compliance and enforcing unique naming on save.

Key Outcomes

Zero data loss migration with pre-conversion validation

Reduced migration time from weeks to days per customer

BPMN 2.0 compliance enabled for all converted diagrams

Automated validation and compatibility checking

Pre-conversion review interface for safe migration

On course to enable sunsetting the legacy editor in 2026

Project Info

Start

2023

End

Dec 2025

Duration

3 years

Tech

5 used

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