About Unistep – some history...

Unistep is a software tool initially developed by M. Cartiant in the year 2000, as a byproduct of a larger project called Amarco.

Amarco was created in the mid-1990s, covering cartography and the inventory of complex systems and their architectures. It was a pioneering approach based on services, system hierarchies, and system drill-down. Amarco was accompanied by software capable of automatically drawing (with Visio!) the various levels of system structures, and mapping processes onto these structures.

The drill-down ideas and technology first developed in Amarco are now echoed in Unistep, helping today’s analysts and students alike. Over the last 20 years, Unistep has been available in different editions and has gained clients all over the world.

 A YouTube video about it has been online for almost 15 years.

M. Cartiant is now retired and lives in Bucharest, Romania, after a long professional career as an entrepreneur in France.

Following feedback from clients and visitors, M. Cartiant decided to develop a brand-new and ambitious version of Unistep, able to produce autonomous animated HTML files and movies with processes of all kinds (BPMN, flowcharts).

These animations rely on the designer’s know-how and Visio to be generated, but they run independently of Visio as standalone files or movies, on local machines or websites. They offer the same advanced presentation features as Unistep inside Visio: multiple process selection, animation, and drill-down. Thus, static drawings in Visio are transformed into dynamic presentations, without requiring Visio to run them.

These presentations are therefore accessible to a wider audience, who can animate them individually without needing Visio or Unistep.