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ECM and Camunda – Integrating Box.com with Camunda

Many core workflows in organizations involve some kind of document management. Organizations usually handle document management with the help of DMS or ECM software solutions. The term Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was first introduced in 2000 by the AIIM International. In today’s definition ECM covers (web) content, document, records, workflow and digital asset management as well as search, collaboration, capture and scanning. Furthermore, often document management systems (DMS) are viewed to be a component of ECM. Originally ECM applications were implemented as traditional software applications which were installed on-premise. With the growth of cloud computing and SaaS solutions also the ECM market changed drastically during the last years. Many traditional ECM applications added SaaS technology to their portfolio, but at…

By Felix Mueller

Product

Camunda Modeler 1.4 Released

We are proud to announce version 1.4 of the Camunda Modeler! In this release we are introducing new element template features and improving the stability of the BPMN and DMN Modeler. Download the new version from camunda.org.

By Patrick Dehn

Engineering

Camunda Engine Evolution since Activiti Fork

The future of the Activiti Open Source project is currently uncertain. Camunda split from the Activiti project in 2013. Since then, we maintained our own open source fork of the original Activiti Codebase. The objective of this post is to illustrate the diverging directions the two projects have taken and to serve as input for users who now consider migrating from Activiti to Camunda. The first part focuses on two key topics: core BPMN Execution and the persistence layer. For me, after all the feature talk and the marketing-hurrah is said and done, BPMN and persistence is where the meat is. In the second part, I compare the current state of the Camunda codebase to the (unreleased) Activiti 6.

By Daniel Meyer

Engineering

How to migrate from Activiti 5.21 to Camunda BPM 7.5

With the Activiti Core Developers having left Alfresco (the company behind Activiti), the future of the Activiti project is quite questionable. More and more Activiti users want to migrate to Camunda. There are actually very good reasons to do so, see Camunda Engine Evolution since Activiti Fork. Camunda is a fork of Activiti. We actually developed big parts of the engine ourselves before we decided to part ways with Alfresco back in 2013. Hence it is relatively easy to migrate. This post lists the necessary steps to achieve this:

By Bernd Ruecker

Engineering

Camunda BPM 7.6.0-alpha5 Released

Camunda 7.6.0-alpha5 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Implementation of the BPMN Conditional Event Batch Cancellation of Historic Process Instances Huge performance improvements due to caching of Scripting Engines and Compiled Scripts in DMN Engine Expressions in Signal and Message Event Names Cockpit Usability Improvements Pluggable Deployment Cache 10 Bug Fixes List of known Issues The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can Download Camunda For Free or Run it with Docker.

By Christopher Kujawa, Daniel Meyer

Engineering

Efficient bundling of similar activities – Batch Processing with Camunda

Batch Processing in business processes is the ability to execute an activity or a set of activities for several business cases simultaneously. In practice, we can observe different cases where the bundled execution of several cases is beneficial and can improve process performance. In healthcare, it is more time-efficient to first collect a set of blood samples taken from patients to deliver them to the laboratory instead of sending a nurse for each separately. In e-commerce and logistics, it is more cost-efficient to consolidate packages to be sent to the same customer instead of handling each separately. In administration, usually related sets of invoices are approved to minimize the time to get familiar with the work. Most process modeling languages…

By Luise Pufahl

Product

Camunda Modeler 1.3.2 released

We are happy to announce version 1.3.2 of the Camunda Modeler! Please download the new version from camunda.org. We fixed some bugs with the patch releases 1.3.1 and 1.3.2.

By Patrick Dehn

Engineering

Recommending CMMN Activities

The Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) standard deals with unstructured work that is performed in the context of a so-called case. A CMMN model specifies the frame in which a case is handled. It expresses design time considerations, such as hard restrictions when an activity can be performed or not. Aside from that, there are often soft patterns that only emerge at runtime based on case workers’ experience. Detecting such patterns and providing insights to case workers can make dedicated case management with CMMN and Camunda especially useful.

By Thorben Lindhauer

Engineering

Camunda BPM 7.6.0-alpha4 Released

Camunda 7.6.0-alpha4 is here and it is packed with new features. The highlights are: Batch Cancellation of Process Instances CMMN Monitoring in Cockpit New Home Page for the Webapplication Improved Metrics API 25 Bug Fixes The complete release notes are available in Jira. You can Download Camunda For Free or Run it with Docker.

By Johannes Heinemann, Christopher Kujawa, Roman Smirnov, Askar Akhmerov, Daniel Meyer

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