Activiti BPM - Paul Holmes-Higgin, Chief Product Officer, Alfresco

1. 25 June 2015
Business Process for Business Users
Introducing Activiti - June 25
Paul Holmes-Higgin

2. What’s happening in
Business Process Management (BPM)?
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3. 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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4. 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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5. What is Alfresco Activiti BPM?
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. How Simple + Smart is Activiti?
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Thank you