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Camunda Modeler 2.0 Released

We are happy to announce the Camunda Modeler 2.0 release. The new Modeler ships with major improvements to BPMN editing and another round of minimap enhancements. A brand new properties panel for DMN adds support for Camunda specific properties and allows you to inspect and edit technical DMN properties in one place. Finally, the modeler now ships with signed executables, allowing you to safely employ it, even in locked down, corporate environments on both MacOS and Windows.

By Nico Rehwaldt

Community

RPA and Camunda BPM: Integrate a Software Robot by Using External Tasks

In my recent post on RPA, I used asynchronous REST calls to integrate UiPath with Camunda. This only works if your RPA solution provides an API that can be used by third-party applications. Since I promised you that there would be a follow-up post, I want to take the opportunity to show you another approach of integrating an RPA tool with Camunda. This time, I decided to try out WorkFusion’s RPA Express, which is available for free. Scenario The overall scenario for using an RPA product is the same that I described in my last post — you need to replace manual work with an automated task, but the external system does not provide an API that can be called…

By Benjamin Hoffmann

Process Orchestration

Stateful Orchestration (or, Why Your Microservices Application Needs a Brain)

When checking in for a flight online, normal people hope that everything works the way it’s supposed to. That usually means no error messages, and at the end of the process, getting a boarding pass in your selected format. We at Camunda, however, are not “normal people”. A problem during check-in is a bit of a thrill for us because it gives us a peek into how a company handles software failures in a high-traffic application. We never know exactly what’s happening under the hood, of course, but we like to speculate.

By Camunda Cloud Team

Community

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Camunda BPM: A demo on using UiPath robots within a BPMN workflow

Having read Mike’s post on why it makes sense to combine RPA products with Camunda BPM, I got curious about prototyping an example with a specific RPA tool. I decided to work with UiPath since it’s been getting a lot of attention from the community. In this post, I want to share what I learned and what I built during my one-week journey into the world of RPA. Scenario The example can be applied to any scenario where you need to replace manual work (the User Task in BPMN) with an automated task and where an external system — often a legacy graphical user interface — does not provide an API that can be called directly from Camunda. So instead…

By Benjamin Hoffmann

Process Orchestration

BPMN and Microservices Orchestration, Part 2 of 2: Graphical Models, Simplified Sagas, and Cross-functional Collaboration

This is part 2 in a 2-part series about BPMN and how it’s being applied to new use cases. You can find part 1 here. A sincere thanks to Bernd Rücker for his feedback during the writing of both blog posts. Welcome back to our discussion of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) and its role in emerging use cases such as microservices orchestration. You don’t have to read the posts in order to be able to follow along, but if you’re new to BPMN, you might find it helpful to start with part 1. To recap, the first post covered: An introduction to BPMN Why a well-established standard that thrived in the past can thrive in the future, too…

By Camunda Cloud Team

Engineering

Camunda 7.10.0-alpha2 Released

The second alpha release of Camunda BPM 7.10 is here and the highlights are: Cascading History Cleanup based on process hierarchy Notable security fixes Start process list changes in Tasklist Modify single process asynchronously More supported environments – PostgreSQL 10.4 and MariaDB 10.3 18 Bug Fixes

By Nikola Koevski

Product

Camunda Optimize 2.2.0-alpha1 Released

We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.2.0-alpha1. This release marks the first alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.2.0. Although it is just an alpha release, it is already packed with new brilliant features. The release allows to group process instance frequencies and durations by variable. Also you can perform additional operations like minimum, maximum and median on duration reports. Narrow down your view on the data even further by using the new canceled process instance only or non-executed flow node filter. Use Optimize to see even faster when certain targets (e.g. KPI’s or SLA’s) were not met by using the the new goal line in the bar chart. The new version contains not only improvements…

By Kyrylo Zakurdaiev, Omran Abazeed, Johannes Heinemann, Sebastian Stamm

Process Orchestration

BPMN and Microservices Orchestration, Part 1 of 2: Flow Languages, Engines, and Timeless Patterns

A sincere thanks to Bernd Rücker for his feedback during the writing of this blog post. This is part 1 of 2 in a 2-part blog post series. Part 2 is available here. We’re building Zeebe to be a next-generation workflow engine for emerging use cases such as microservices orchestration–use cases that may require an engine to handle hundreds of thousands (or millions) of new workflow instances per second. And to do that, we’re using a graphical modeling standard that’s been around for almost 15 years: BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).

By Camunda Cloud Team

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