Install W5 8
Business process modelling for Windows

W5 Modeler

W5 Modeler is a business process modelling tool. It uses the W5 method to discover, model and extract the most complete five-dimensional view of your business, one that shows the complexity and choreography of your operations precisely.

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Needs Windows 11

Based on five simple questions (who does what, with which information, where and when), it gives you a business-friendly method and a set of tools to understand and analyse your business.

Its Business Requirements Auto-Generator uses the model to produce accurate, actionable business requirements, bridging the gap between the business and IT.

W5 Modeler 8 with a model open in its all-dimensions process view, its dimensions listed in the explorer

Editions

Reader

Read W5 business process models. It doesn't include the basic reports (dimension dictionary, dimensional relationship list, profile filter report, object notes report).

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Modeler

Read and write W5 business process models, including the basic reports: dimension dictionary, dimensional relationship list, profile filter report and object notes report.

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Report Writer

Unlike “static” drawing tools, the W5 Report Writer extracts and works with W5 data, to support business optimisation, operations costing, business scenario comparison and much more.

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BRD Generator

Believed to be the world's first “inference engine” for deriving detailed, quality business requirements from business models automatically. It supports agile and iterative requirements, waterfall and bimodal.

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W5 Modeler 8

What's new in 8

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AI builds your models.

Describe a business or a process in plain words. The AI writes a complete W5 model, W5 checks it against the method and draws it.

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AI checks and explains them.

Ask about any model: who is responsible, what is missing, and where it departs from the W5 method.

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Your AI, your choice.

A model on your own PC, cloud AI with your own key, or Claude Desktop with a Claude subscription.

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Better reports, no Office.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF reports made by W5 itself, set up by choosing from your own model.

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A fresh, faster W5.

An Office-style window, new icons, a new Start page, and twice as fast to start.

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Safer with your work.

Your models come back after Windows restarts, and W5 asks about every unsaved model before it closes.

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