Open Source BPM Middleware
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Mgr. Ivo Bek, Associate Product Manager
Mgr. Marian Macik, Quality Engineer
April 2018
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CONTENT
Open Source BPM Middleware
❏ Business automation
❏ Architecture and its elements
❏ New project in Business Central
❏ Business assets
❏ Data objects
❏ Business processes
❏ Forms
❏ Decision tables
❏ Research areas
❏ Labs
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BUSINESS AUTOMATION
more than BPM
❏ BPM
❏ Case Management
❏ Decisions
❏ Resource Planning
❏ Robotic Process
Automation (RPA)
❏ AI and Machine
Learning
See BPM in context
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FROM A MODEL TO PRODUCTION
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FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE
and its elements
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FROM A MODEL TO PRODUCTION
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NEW PROJECT IN BUSINESS CENTRAL
the first steps
❏ Based on Maven and stored in Asset
repository (GIT)
❏ Try Samples
❏ Contributors
❏ Add assets
❏ Data Object
❏ Business Process (Preview)
❏ Form
❏ Decision Table
❏ Build => Deploy
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DATA MODELING
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PROCESS MODELING
❏ Subset of BPMN2 elements
❏ Form generating
❏ Export to PNG, PDF, SVG, BPMN2
❏ Early alpha version
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FORM MODELING
❏ Generate forms for
❏ Data Objects
❏ Process start form
❏ Task form
❏ Widget library able to bind
different types of data
(TextBox, DatePickers,
Checkboxes, ListBox,
Nested Forms...)
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DECISION TABLE
❏ Friendly to business analysts
❏ Rules in rows
❏ Condition column(s)
❏ Action column(s)
❏ Attributes
❏ Ruleflow group
❏ DMN
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PROCESS ADMINISTRATION
❏ Quick access to:
❏ Process Definitions
❏ Process Instances
❏ Tasks
❏ Execution errors
❏ Jobs
❏ Filtering
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RESEARCH AREAS
❏ Automatic task assignment strategies
❏ Appformer = end-user app builder
❏ Cloud - OpenShift images and Ansible playbook bundles (APBs)
❏ Stunner - new Process Designer
❏ Case Modeler
❏ Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
❏ Employee rostering and vehicle routing solutions
❏ and many more
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AUTOMATIC TASK ASSIGNMENT STRATEGIES
❏ Many processes/cases → many tasks
❏ Whom should I assigned a task to?
❏ Not scalable for humans
❏ OptaPlanner
❏ Constraint satisfaction solver
❏ NP-complete/NP-hard problems
(TSP, resource allocation, knapsack
problem...)
❏ embedded/standalone
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LABS
❏ Order Process
❏ Decision table - Evaluate Order
❏ Forms
❏ Start process form
❏ Manager approval form
❏ Service task
❏ Dummy service to make the
order
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INSTALLATION STEPS
❏ Download Application Server
❏ Download App
❏ Deploy & Configure
❏ Run
❏ Pros & Cons
❏ … or use our prepared repository :)
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