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A powerful tool for graphical process modeling
Oryx runs in your web browser, zero software installation required
Oryx is a process platform - stakeholders can access process models via the web
Based on web technology, integration in wikis and your corporate IT is simplified
Oryx creates transparency and acceptance
Oryx is extensible - new functions can be added via a plugin mechanism
Oryx directly supports BPMN, EPC, and other process modeling languages
Oryx is based on open internet standards
User authentication through OpenID
Oryx is an open source project

Collaborative process modeling in the internet or your company intranet (model sharing and publishing)
Complete support for BPMN 1.1 and extended EPC
Simulation of processes by step-through-semantics
Model transformation, e.g. mapping of BPMN to BPEL for web service composition (coming soon)
Export process models to PDF, PNG, RDF for further processing, analysis, and reporting
Support of different languages

Desktop application feeling
Support of all basic editor features like copy&paste, save (as), print, undo/redo and so on
Intensive use of mouse control
Creation of shapes by dragging the shape from the shape repository onto the canvas or by using the context specific shape menu
Step-by-step modeling of processes via shape menu that only offers valid outgoing edges and following nodes to the user
Changing of a shapes properties via the property window with property type specific UI support
Editing labels by double-clicking on a shape
Automatic word wrapping to adjust a text to its shape (only available in Firfox 3+)
Grouping of shapes
Easy connecting edges to nodes with a dockers-magnets-mechanism