25 June 2015 Business Process for Business Users Introducing Activiti - June 25 Paul Holmes-Higgin
Aug 03, 2015
25 June 2015
Business Process for Business Users Introducing Activiti - June 25
Paul Holmes-Higgin
What’s happening inBusiness Process Management (BPM)?
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What the analysts say…• BPM is changing
– Convergence of BPM, Collaboration and Content Management– Intelligent/Dynamic Case Management
• Market is looking for ease of use– Including designing & deploying process apps– Gartner: “citizen developer”– Forrester: “low-code”
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What businesses say…• Ease of use
– Business users want consumer experience• IT don’t want to be the bad guys
– Enable line of business to self serve– Minimize IT involvement and dependency– Capture process from the business user
• “Re-platforming” large legacy– Choosing open source
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What is Alfresco Activiti BPM? Activiti
Alfresco Activiti History• Activiti project started in 2010
– By Alfresco for ECM workflow– Hired RedHat JBoss jBPM team– Open source
• Enterprise Activiti Suite released in 2014– Range of Support options– Stable certified releases with service packs– New apps
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Alfresco Activiti BPM Suite• Business process design
– BPMN process designer– User-friendly Step Editor– Forms library– Process applications
• Collaborative process and task management• Analytics
– Reports on process statistics
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Who is using Activiti?• Finance
– Banking – account onboarding etc– Insurance – claims processing
• Government, Research & Education– Citizen engagement– Manage 50k+ staff, visiting staff & students– Control access to highly sensitive facilities
• Healthcare– Clinical care pathway automation and integration– Automation of paper forms
• High Tech– Global mega-corp – hundreds of thousands of processes/hour
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How Simple + Smart is Activiti? Activiti
The Demo Scenario
• Goldcore supplies machinery parts, and wants to handle faulty components returned by customers
• Process– Capture fault report– Review and decide whether a
fault– Respond to customer as
appropriate
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Alfresco One with Alfresco Activiti
• Tight integration with ECM– Activiti UI replaces Share
workflow UI• Define processes
– Step Editor or BPMN Editor– Design forms with drag & drop– Live design and deploy– No XML, content models or
server restarts!• Full administrator monitoring
and management• Extensive BPM API
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Summary• BPM is becoming more collaborative and dynamic• Business users want ownership of their process applications• Alfresco Activiti is the only open BPM to offer this• Alfresco Activiti with Alfresco One gives unprecedented business power
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Thank you