Lombardi Announces Immediate Availability of Blueprint Spring 08 Release

Lombardi announced that the Lombardi Blueprint Spring '08 release is live. Blueprint is an 'on-demand' process documentation tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), the Enterprise 2.0 application allows customers to immediately start discovering and documenting their processes without training and without having to download or install any software. Lombardi Blueprint provides multiple views for representing processes. The process mapping view is targeted towards business users who need to describe activities and responsibilities and want to identify potential problems. Blueprint also supports detailed workflow modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for more sophisticated business analysts and process modelers throughout the organization. The documentation view provides wiki-like capabilities for documenting processes. Additionally, Blueprint serves as a central repository for all process information, automatically managing revision history, as well as rollback and audit trail information for every process. This latest release introduces a set of new diagramming innovations that decrease the time and complexity of building detailed process diagrams. Additionally, Lombardi's Spring '08 release of Blueprint has a new Microsoft Visio importer. Any Visio process drawing can now be imported into a Blueprint Professional Edition account. There are two different types of Blueprint Accounts available: a Free Edition and a Professional Edition.