Visual Paradigm

Visual Paradigm is a Hong Kong software house whose products help analysts, architects, project managers and developers model systems, processes and data. It sells a desktop modelling application and a web platform, now joined in a Unified Platform that gives access to more than 100 apps from one dashboard and one shared drive.

What Visual Paradigm offers

• Software modelling — UML diagrams, code engineering and database design, including diagrams generated from existing code.
• Systems and process modelling — SysML and BPMN.
• Enterprise architecture — TOGAF and ArchiMate support.
• Agile and project tools — agile management, user stories and wireframing.
• AI features — text-to-diagram generation, a chatbot and over 80 dedicated AI apps.
• Team work — cloud collaboration, versioning and commenting on shared diagrams.

Who it works with

Its users range from start-ups and consultants to large corporations, universities and government agencies. Logos on its site include Adobe, Apple, Intel, NASA and Toyota, and academic users include UC Berkeley and Oxford.

Key facts

• Based in: Kowloon, Hong Kong
• Formats: desktop application and web-based VP Online
• Awards: five industry awards in 2004 and 2005, as stated