Activiti - the Open Source Business Process Management platform by Alfresco

The Open source Business Process Management Platform byFrederik Heremans, Alfresco Software Ltd.

IntroductionFrederik HeremansSenior Software Engineer at Alfresco

• Part of the Activiti team• Before joining Alfresco: J2EE + ECM

Consultant• Open-source enthusiast• Based in Belgium

Agenda• Alfresco ECM• Introduction to Activiti• Case Management principles in Activiti• Demo

Alfresco ECM

‘An open source and open standards Java content platform for building any content-rich application’

Alfresco ECM• Document Management

– Create, capture, share and retain corporate content

• Records Management– Ensure governance, compliance and retention

• Enterprise Collaboration– Create, collaborate, discuss and discover content

• Web content Management– Author, collaborate, approve and publish

to the web

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Activiti BPM

• Open source BPM-engine (Apache license)• Founded by Tom Baeyens and his right-hand

Joram Barrez (former RedHat/Jboss JBPM-team)• Processes are BPMN 2.0– OMG standard for modeling (executable)processes

• Lightweight, embeddable, testable and extensible

• Active community, many contributions

More than just a library…

Activiti Modeler (browser)

Activiti Designer (Eclipse)

Activiti Cycle

Activiti Explorer

But what about ACM?

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ACM principles in Activiti Explorer• Create ‘ad hoc’ tasks, without process• Involve people with the task/case• Add subtasks (also to process-tasks)• Add related documents/url’s• Contextual task-lists (role-based, involvement,

assigned, …)• Activity stream (Case History + collaboration)• Possibility of leveraging history of engine

DemoActiviti Explorer in Action

Any Questions?