Process Orchestration
If you’ve already read the Zeebe 0.12 release announcement, then you know that in addition to significant advancements in BPMN support, Zeebe 0.12 includes changes to the scope of the problem that Zeebe solves and introduces a couple of new concepts. In this post, we’ll walk through those changes in more detail so that it’s clear what’s different about Zeebe and why we’ve decided to take a different approach.
Engineering
In Camunda BPM, every process instance can have a so-called business key. This post explains its purpose, how it compares to process variables and how it can be used.
Product
For all of you who have been patiently awaiting Optimize 2.2.0 and are eager to try it out, we have some good news: the wait is over! Today, we’re happy to announce the latest Camunda Optimize release. Optimize works alongside Camunda BPM to provide continuous monitoring and insights about your deployed business processes. Optimize tames huge quantities of data to help process owners make informed decisions to improve their processes. The new version allows for deeper analysis and comes with many improvements of Optimize’s continuous monitoring capabilities. Version 2.2.0 is feature-rich, and highlights include: Group by Variable New durations operations Combining reports Process Parts New filters Night-time mode UI/UX improvements Define goal lines Import complex variables Secure Elasticsearch
By Johannes Heinemann, Sebastian Stamm, Omran Abazeed, Kyrylo Zakurdaiev
Engineering
Camunda BPM 7.10.0-alpha4 is here and the highlights are: Extending the BPMN Viewer in Cockpit Support for Java 9 / 10 & 11 18 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes and the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Process Orchestration
Hi everyone, here’s our roundup of goings-on in and around the Zeebe project for September 2018. This month, we’ll cover newly-supported BPMN symbols in Zeebe, a Zeebe + Apache Kafka demo, conference talk recordings featuring Bernd, and more.
Process Orchestration
In this blog post, we’ll share a few highlights from the microservices orchestration survey that we fielded in July 2018.
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.2.0-alpha2. This release was mainly focused on improving the UI/UX of the application. The design of the Reports/Dashboards/Alerts lists were improved. A Loading indicator is added throughout the application that appears every time the data is being loaded from the server. Another interesting feature, is the night time mode in the dashboard view. There are also some performance improvements such as the caching of bpmn diagrams. This release marks the second alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.2.0. The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can try out a free trial of Camunda Optimize. Improve the UI/UX of the Reports/Dashboards/Alerts list Before this release, the reports, dashboards and…
By Omran Abazeed, Johannes Heinemann
Engineering
Camunda BPM 7.10.0-alpha3 is here and the highlights are: Extending “Handle External Task BPMN Error” Complete Hierarchical History Cleanup 9 Bug Fixes Together with the third alpha of platform, we released also: Spring Boot Starter 3.1.0-alpha1 – release notes Node.js external task client 1.1.0-alpha1 for non-Java developers – release notes Java external task client 1.1.0-alpha1 – can be embedded in Java applications, release notes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes and the list of known issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Product
Tl;dr We just released a new Camunda Modeler plugin that makes it possible to preview task forms and to automatically generate HTML for embedded task forms–all without leaving the Camunda Modeler. The plugin makes it much faster and easier to do form prototyping at the beginning of a project and then get up and running with an embedded task form. While some workflow automation use cases can be solved with “straight-through processing”–that is, a process where all tasks are completed by software systems and with no manual intervention–we human beings still have an important role to play in many scenarios. For reasons ranging from regulatory compliance to quality assurance, BPMN’s user task is frequently a part of process models. And…
By Felix Mueller, Mike Winters
