Open Source Process Automation
GET STARTED
Mgr. Ivo Bek, Product Manager
Mgr. Marian Macik, Quality Engineer
Feb 2019
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AGENDA
Open Source Process Automation
❏ BPM Intro
❏ Business automation
❏ Architecture
❏ New project in Business Central
❏ Business assets
❏ Data objects
❏ Business processes
❏ Forms
❏ Process administration
❏ Team collaboration
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FROM A MODEL TO PRODUCTION
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MINIMAL VANILLA ARCHITECTURE
All we need
http://localhost:8080/business-central
http://localhost:8080/kie-server/docs
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SETUP
the first steps
❏ Download and unzip the single zip distribution
❏ Run:
jbpm-server/bin/standalone.sh (Unix / Linux)
jbpm-server/bin/standalone.bat (Windows)
❏ Add users and groups
❏ Use H2/MySQL/PostgreSQL database (optional)
❏ More info in Getting Started Guide
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NEW PROJECT IN BUSINESS CENTRAL
❏ Based on Maven and stored in Asset
repository (GIT)
❏ Try Samples
❏ SNAPSHOT development version
❏ Add assets
❏ Data Object
❏ Business Process
❏ Form
❏ DMN Model
❏ Test Scenarios
❏ Build and Deploy
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DATA MODELING
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PROCESS MODELING
❏ Subset of BPMN2 elements
❏ Focus on execution semantics
❏ Form generating
❏ Export to PNG, PDF, SVG, BPMN2
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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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PROCESS ADMINISTRATION
❏ Quick access to:
❏ Process Definitions
❏ Process Instances
❏ Tasks
❏ Execution errors
❏ Jobs
❏ Filtering
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PROCESS MONITORING
❏ Process reports
❏ Task reports
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TEAM COLLABORATION
❏ How to work on a project as a team
without any complex setup of the
infrastructure (git hooks, central git
repository, …)
1. Split the work between the team
members
2. Export project
3. Share your assets with
your team
4. Import assets to your
local instance
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TEAM COLLABORATION VIA GIT
❏ Requires only basic Git skills
❏ Pull your business assets from Business Central
1. git remote add business-central
ssh://wbadmin@localhost:8001/MySpace/
<projectName>
2. git pull business-central master
3. password wbadmin
❏ Push your business assets for example to GitHub
1. git push github master
❏ Import your business assets to another
Business Central either by pushing to it
or by cloning whole repository from UI
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BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
“A business process is a collection of
activities that takes one or more kinds of
input and creates an output that is of value
to the customer. A business process has a
goal and is affected by events occurring in
the external world or in other processes.”
Hammer, M. and Champy, J.
the way a company manages and improves business processes
● approval process
● payment process
● employee onboarding
● loan/mortgage application
● Manufactoring / assembly
line
● service requests
● rent car process
● vacation approval
● media publish process
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RETURN ON INVESTMENTS (ROI)
Frequency
Size and complexity
Diversity (actors, systems, rules)
Speed (SLAs)
Time (spent on a single manual task) x
Frequency (of performing a task per month) x
Cost (per hour) x 12 (months) = Yearly Savings
Our focus
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BUSINESS AUTOMATION
more than BPM
❏ BPM
❏ Decision Management
❏ Case Management
❏ Resource Planning
❏ Robotic Process
Automation (RPA)
❏ AI, XAI, and Machine
Learning
See BPM in context