Category Archives: BPM
BPM – Key Aspects of Process Discovery Phase
This article represents different aspects of process discovery phase which is key to any business process implmentation project. The analogy to process discovery phase in regular software project is “requirements gathering phase”. However, it requires different approach than regular software requirements gathering phase owing to the very complexity of business process. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: Different aspects of process discovery Key Deliverables Key Stakeholders Effort & time involved Different aspects of process discovery Following are key phase of process discovery that a …
Business Process or Workflow – Chicken or Egg – Who Comes First?
Many a times, you ask the definition of business process or workflow, it so happens that the mention of other happens while a person is trying to define any of them. And, the next moment the question is asked that what is the difference between business process or workflow, and that which contains which one. This article tries to define each one and relate them appropriately while mentioning distinct difference between them? At times, it tends to appear like a chicken or egg situation which represents the fact that whether workflow in your systems may be progressed to define and create business processes (bottoms-up) or business process, once defined, needs to …
Why BPM for Manufacturing Businesses?
This article talks about various different scenarios in which Business Process management (BPM) technologies (tools & frameworks) could bring a lot of difference to your manufacturing business and help you do better in terms of improved operations and overall increase in the bottom line (profit) of the business. Before we look into some of the use-cases of BPM, lets see how it would look like without BPM? [adsenseyu2] How does the manufacturing IT landscape look like without BPM? Given that you have large applications in relation with Enterprise Respource Planning (ERP), Customer Requirements Management (CRM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), following is how you enterprise architecture landscape could look …
BPM – Key Enabler Technology for Managing Aam Aadmi Complaints (AAC)
Now that the whole of country, India, has woken up to a corruption free governance, if there is one technology that could help accelerate this movement in a managed manner, it has to be business process management and related tools & frameworks. Janata Darbar (People’s gathering with government stakeholders for grievances resolution) has always been famous for quite sometime. However, very recently, it caught media attention for how unmanaged it can go if not planned properly. AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal and his team of cabinet ministers decided to talk to people and scheduled a meeting where they expected 5000 people to gather and thus, planned accordingly. …
Some Source Code for Bonita Rest API Implementation
[adsenseyu2] Following are key source code blocks/classes/APIs to consider for you to get started with Bonita REST API implementation: AccessorUtil: This is the gateway API which is used to get instance of key API implementations. For example, AccessorUtil.getRuntimeAPI() gets you an instance of RuntimeAPI to work with. ProcessDefinitionUUID: The ProcessDefinitionUUID (org.ow2.bonita.facade.uuid.ProcessDefinitionUUID) class is one of the important parameter required to create an instance of process, such as ProcessInstanceUUID. Following code helps instantiate the process: ProcessDefinitionUUID processDefinitionUUID = new ProcessDefinitionUUID(process, version); try { return runtimeAPI.instantiateProcess(processDefinitionUUID, params); } catch (ProcessNotFoundException e) { } catch (VariableNotFoundException e) { } LightTaskInstance: LightTaskInstance (org.ow2.bonita.light.LightTaskInstance) defines the tasks for the workflow. RuntimeAPI: RuntimeAPI (org.ow2.bonita.facade.RuntimeAPI) is used to …
Bonita REST API & Application Architecture
[adsenseyu2] I have been working on BonitaSoft REST API in order to meet following customers’ requirements: The customer has multiple line of business (LOB) applications. The customer has decided to make a strategic move to offer solutions to their existing and new customers rather than one or more products from their multiple LOBs which can be accessed by a web application dashboard. These solution span across multiple LOB applications and is envisioned to leverage functionality offered by these applications using service API. In this regard, one key fundamental architectural component that got introduced is workflow tool, BonitaSoft. The workflow tool is used to execute one or more workflows which forms …
Different Roles & Responsibilities in a Business Process Lifecycle
Following are different roles and responsibilities involved in a business process lifecycle which consists of four key stages such as modeling, implementation, execution/control and monitoring/optimization: Process Owners: The primary responsibility of a process owner is to own business process from strategic point of view and has end to end responsibility for the process. The diagram below represents the spectrum of responsibility of a process owner. The details could be further read on this page. Process Analysts: Process analysts analyses the business processes with the process owners and define the process model including information such as activity flow, information flow, rules, documents, business policies, business rules, performance measures (KPI). IT Developers: …
What are different types of Business Processes?
Following are different types of business processes: UI intensive processes: Navigational flow and data aggregation is controlled from a user interface layer rather than in a BPEL process. These processes are used for cases where a GUI application performs the process orchestration or control. Synchronous transactional processes: These are a collection of short-running BPEL processes provide real-time responses to graphical user interfaces or for transactional sub-processes. These are used for cases when you need high performance and the caller needs a response immediately. Asynchronous transactional processes: The invoker/caller makes the request and does not wait for the responses. Process is assured to occur at a later time in a separate transaction. These processes are used for cases when …
Why REST with Bonita When You can Mix ‘N’ Match :-)
To give you quick overview on what is referred to as Bonita here, Bonita is referred to as BonitaSoft BPM Tool. As per BonitaSoft corporate website, Bonita BPM improves business operations by connecting people, processes, and information systems into easily managed applications. The blog aims to highlight some of the aspects of Bonita BPM REST API and, some of the reasons due to which one would want to go with REST based integration with Bonita BPM. Those of you working with BonitaSoft tool including Bonita Portal for accessing workflow applications on top of BonitaSoft workflow engine & Bonita Studio for creating workflows, may have been exploring to find out ways and …
What is a Workflow?
While having a discussion with one of my colleagues, I found his interpretation of workflow quite interesting. There are myths around workflow. Many people relate workflow with software requirement requiring decision making such as approval/rejection etc. However, this is how workroom and workflow was described: As part of my daily activities, I may need to get into a workroom and see all that needs to be achieved on that day. Each of the tasks can be called as “output” that needs to be achieved. The “output” will require a set of input and, a set of activities to be performed in order to be achieved. The set of activities can …
I found it very helpful. However the differences are not too understandable for me