BPM Defined

BPM&Bonita

Mickael Istria

@LyonJUG, 15th February 2011

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Agenda

● What is BPM? Why is this useful?

● What does BPMS provide?

● Bonita Open Solution: demo

● Under the hood

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BPM is...

Business

Process

Management

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a BPM use-case

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BPM (for functional)

● Speaks about how to do things.● Defines your how business works.● Ensure it works!

● It is all about organization, and is clearly driven by business.

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BPM (for end users)

● Business processes answer to questions such as:● “And now, what do I have to do?”● “How can I do that?”● “How am I expected to do that?”

● Ensure you do what is expected of you.

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BPMN is...

Business

Process

Modeling

Notation

An Standard

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BPMN samples

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BPMN samples

BPMN defines...

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From BPM to BPMS

I can automate that!

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But...

BPMS already did that for you!

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BPMS is...

Business

Process

Management

Solution

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BPMS

● Set of tooling to go from Business Process Modeling to Business Process Automation.

● Can include extra BPM features such as process simulation, or application generation.

● Helps transforming functional into technical

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BPM lifecycle

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BPMS and agility

● By uncoupling business logic from technical issues, BPMS provides agility to your business.

● Improve = edit diagram + redeploy a file

● Improving business processes is transparent for people affected by these processes.

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BPMS and continuous improvement

● Open the doors towards monitoring, reporting, business intelligence, simulation...

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Bonita Open Solution

● Version 5.4 available since January the 27th

● Very active community (3500+ members)

● GPL v2

● http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php

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Demo

● Process modeling

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Demo

● Connect

There is a connector for that...

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Demo

● User Experience – as easy as email

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Demo● Customize your end user forms

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Demo

● Generate an application from your process

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Demo● Simulate your process and improve it

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Under the hood

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Runtime architecture - Big picture

Bonita EngineBonita Engine

Bonita User ExperienceBonita User Experience

Bonita Applications

Bonita Applications Co

nnectors

Connectors

UsersUsers3rd Party

Information System

3rd Party Information

System

MailMail

……

DBDB

Google CalGoogle Cal

Your AppYour App

DB

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BOS Engine

Je suis l'une des technologiesutilisées dans le moteur de Bonita...

…notamment pour la persistencedes définitions de processus,

et des états de leurs instances.

Je suis sans doute le frameworkde persistence ORM le plus utilisé dans le

monde Java.

Je suis, je suis...?

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BOS Engine

● The engine is basically an API to manipulate processes. (create, instantiate, execute, delete)

● It deals with persistence of process definitions and instances, and with execution of the flow.

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BOS Engine

● BOS Engine can be accessed locally or remotely with Java, using the same code

Local

Application

bonita-server.jar

Remote

Java Client

bonita-client.jar

EJBREST

HTTP Client(PHP, Python...)

Server

bonita-server.jar REST

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BOS Engine

● Code sample

http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/tutorial/building-your-applications-with-bonita-runtime-part-1/

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BOS Engine

● Bonita Engine can be embedded in your apps

● bonita-server and bonita-client are available as Maven artifacts on repositories

● It is distributed under LGPL v2.

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Bonita Studio

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Bonita Studio

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Bonita Studio

● The studio is an Eclipse RCP application. It contains the core of Eclipse, some other Eclipse projects, and a lot of Bonita specific plugins.

● It relies on Bonita engine for export.● Imports process in BAR(Bonita archive), BPMN

2, XPDL 1 and jBPM 3● Exports process in BAR and BMPN 2

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User XP and process apps

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User XP and process apps

Which RIA framework is used for the web part?

Google Web Toolkit !

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User XP and process apps

● The studio exports a forms.xml file that describe the form.

● The process application reads this forms.xml to render it on the web, using GWT.

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Product development -Roadmap & Tracking

● Bonita Open Solution development follows Scrum methodology:

● Sprints & Roadmap● Rigorous usage of a tracker● Backlogs & Burn-down chart

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Product development -Continuous Integration

● ~2300 tests for each platform● 22 dedicated cores are used for continuous

build and testing.

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Questions?

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