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From Project to Program: Establishing a Center of Excellence

How can you move beyond your first Camunda project and automate hundreds of processes successfully using an agile step-by-step approach? For the last 10 years we’ve been helping businesses to automate workflow processes, migrating from monolithic systems into agile, scalable ways of working. And we’ve discovered that you don’t have to start with a big bang approach – in fact, starting small is the fastest and most effective route to digital transformation. You can catch up on the previous blogs in the series, if you’d like more background before diving straight into this blog, where we’ll look at how to establish and run a Center of Excellence, manage architectural decisions and manage perceptions around your projects. Establish a Center of…

By Bernd Ruecker

Product

Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1 Released

We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.2.0-alpha1. In this first alpha release of Optimize 3.2.0, you can get an early look at some improvements and features in advance of the stable Optimize 3.2.0. This release adds following new capabilities: The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can <a href="#how-to-get-it">try out a free trial of Camunda Optimize</a>. New Variable Filter for Process and Decision Reports With this release we are introducing a new type of Variable filter for Process and Decision Reports. Within the Variable Filter modal you can now choose to use ‘contains’ or ‘does not contain’ when filtering process or decision instances based on variables: Alerts to multiple recipients For situations where you would…

By Felix Mueller

Product

All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit starting with Camunda BPM 7.14

We are happy to announce, that Camunda BPM 7.14 (scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020) includes an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. It replaces the current AngularJS 1.8 based plugin system and enables you to extend Cockpit with domain-specific information written in the web-technologies of your choice. What are Plugins Webapp plugins are user extensions that provide custom functionality to Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin, which Camunda does not provide out of the box. It allows you to embed domain-specific information into Camunda tooling without switching applications. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be React, Angular, or just plain Javascript. Cockpit is the first webapp to receive…

By Martin Stamm

Product

Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14.0-alpha2 Released

We are happy to share the second alpha release of Camunda BPM Runtime 7.14 with you! This release features the following improvements: All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit Support for Spring Boot 2.3 Additional Supported Environments 14 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free or Run it with Docker. For a complete list of all improvements, take a look at the release notes. Please also see the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. All New Frontend Plugin System for Cockpit We are happy to announce an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be…

By Camunda Platform Team

Community

Camunda’s Evolution: An Open, Distributed Platform

We have recently released the first iteration of the OpenAPI documentation, which is a big step towards making Camunda a more technology independent platform. The journey up until now is very much worth discussing. Camunda started off as a lovely, lightweight java project, which was intended to be used by Java developers to embed in their projects so that they could orchestrate their processes. As far as this mission statement goes – it was, of course, a great success. The features we created focused on the Java ecosystems and the needs of Java developers, which is obvious considering that our community was almost exclusively made-up of Java folk. There came a time, one which I assume happens often for open…

By Niall Deehan

Process Orchestration

From Project to Program: Managing, Monitoring and Leveraging the Cloud

How can you move beyond your first project and automate hundreds of processes successfully using an agile step-by-step approach? For the last 10 years we’ve been helping businesses to automate workflow processes, migrating from monolithic systems into agile, scalable ways of working. And we’ve discovered that you don’t have to start with a big bang approach – in fact, starting small is the fastest and most effective route to digital transformation. You can catch up on the previous blogs in the series, if you’d like more background before diving straight into this blog, on managing decentralized workflow engines. Managing Decentralized Workflow Engines Instead of central platforms I advocate for an approach that every team runs its own engine, especially in a…

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering

How we automatically keep our Documentation Screenshots up to date

When you open the Camunda User Guide, you’ll see that there are many screenshots explaining the different functions and options the product offers. We hope that you, as a user, find those screenshots helpful. But for us as developers, creating and keeping those screenshots up to date has always been a pain. https://unsplash.com/photos/dDppsuM_UpE At the time of writing, the user guide for Camunda Optimize contained 94 screenshots. And with every release we add more functionality, which means the number of screenshots continuously grows. When we change the look of buttons or add a new section to the header, we need to update every screenshot that has a button or header in it. In practice, this meant we were manually recreating every…

By Sebastian Stamm

Process Orchestration

Scaling Camunda Adoption in Your Company – Phases of Adoption

How can you move beyond your first project and automate hundreds of processes successfully using an agile step-by-step approach? For the last 10 years we’ve been helping businesses to automate workflow processes, migrating from monolithic systems into agile, scalable ways of working. And we’ve discovered that you don’t have to start with a big bang approach – in fact, starting small is the fastest and most effective route to digital transformation. In this series, we’ll be taking a closer look at Camunda adoption, choosing the right architecture for your use case and assembling teams that are best placed to drive transformational technologies. Phases in Your Adoption Journey From hundreds of real-life projects over the years, we derived a simple pattern…

By Bernd Ruecker

Process Orchestration

Announcing Zeebe 0.24.1 & Operate 0.24.2

A new release for Zeebe and Operate is available now, version 0.24.2. You can grab the releases via the usual channels: Docker Hub GitHub Maven Central As usual, if you’d like to get started immediately, you can find information about it directly on the Zeebe & Operate documentation website. Both Zeebe 0.24.1 and Operate 0.24.2 are fully backwards compatible with previous versions. For Camunda Cloud users, 0.24.1 is already the latest production version, meaning by the time you read this post, your existing clusters should have been upgraded. Here are some highlights: Zeebe Many, many bug fixes Standalone gateway liveness probes Docker distribution can now run as non-root user Job worker metrics in the Go client FEEL expression support for…

By Camunda Cloud Team

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