Business process management software maker Bonitasoft is introducing version 7 of its application platform, saying it’s the 14-year-old company’s biggest upgrade in more than two years. The open source version of the platform is available for download today.

The new release is designed to appeal to application developers with the addition of a graphical, drag-and-drop user interface designer for creating responsive Web pages and a data modeler on the back end. The company said it has also revamped its architecture to interactions between processes and data smoother. “You can not only build applications but maintain them easily so you can change the underlying data structure,” said CEO Miguel Valdes Faura.

Business process management software is used to model and automate frequently repeated common business processes in order to enforce rigor and identify new efficiencies. Examples include processing insurance claims and applications for government IDs. The software helps identify areas for improvement as well as ways to better integrate with other processes.

BPM Tools have historically been used more for modeling than for deployment, but Bonitasoft is betting that developers will trade off some loss of control over the code for the benefits of speed and platform independence. “If I change my ERP, I shouldn’t need to change my application,” Faura said. BPM 7 Comes with more than 100 connectors to a variety of ERP, CRM and database sources. Users can also develop their own connectors. The company provides a collection of templates  for modeling common tasks with a designer that it said makes user interface customization easy.

Bonitasoft BPM 7 user HTML5 and Javascript for interface design with a drag-and-drop overlay and REST APIs taking care of back-end data connections. “You always had the option to code, but we now have additional tooling to support customized applications,” Faura said.

The 14-year-old company has raised $30 million in funding and has more than 1,000 customers in 75 countries. It typically serves midsize to large businesses. Subscription prices for BPM 7  are for an unlimited number of users and are based on the number of processes automated. Faura said the typical customer pays between $15,000 and $35,000 per year.