Feb 9, 2021
Announcing Zeebe, Operate and Tasklist 1.0.0-alpha1
Today we are excited to announce the three releases: In this post, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities introduced in these alpha releases. Zeebe 1.0.0-alpha1 Zeebe 1.0.0-alpha1 is a big milestone for us. With this release we made major improvements to Zeebe’s Performance and Memory Management and removed YAML workflow support. Improved Performance and Memory Management We have made significant improvements to Zeebe’s performance and memory management by migrating RocksDB to use a one column family. We tested performance during our normal benchmark, which starts a simple process with one task and around 40kb payload. We use three brokers with three partitions and a replication factor of three. We observed that we were able to: – Reduce memory consumption by a…
Camunda BPM Runtime 7.15.0-alpha3 Released
We are pleased to announce the next release of Camunda BPM 7.15, featuring the following improvements: 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 deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub. Cockpit: Distinguish Between Canceled and Completed Process Instances This feature is only available in the Enterprise Edition of the Camunda BPM platform. Test it out with a Free Trial So far, it’s not been possible to distinguish between completed and canceled process instances using the “Process Instances” tab on the process definition history page, with canceled process instances…
Feb 9, 2021
Camunda Optimize 3.4.0-alpha1 Released
We’re excited to announce the release of Camunda Optimize 3.4.0-alpha1. Camunda Optimize provides business activity monitoring for workflows, supporting continuous process improvement by providing transparency into your automated workflows and decisions. Business-friendly reports, dashboards and alerts make it possible to identify process bottlenecks and improve end-to-end processes. If you’d like to get started with Optimize 3.4.0-alpha1 right away, you can download the release here with your Camunda Enterprise Platform customer credentials. And if you’re not yet a Camunda customer, you can sign up here for a free 30-day trial of the Camunda Enterprise Platform, which includes Camunda Optimize. In the rest of this post, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities introduced in Optimize 3.4.0-alpha1. New Dashboard Assignee and Candidate…
Feb 4, 2021
Strengthening Customer Relationships with Process Automation
Nestled in Switzerland on the northern shore of glacial Lake Lugano, the picturesque city of Lugano is one of the most forward-thinking and digitized local government agencies in Europe. With its always-available web portal, more than 67,000 residents can interact directly with the local government – Città di Lugano. Città di Lugano believes everybody, whether they are residents, visitors or businesses, should be able to trigger and actively participate in processes — from obtaining a construction permit, organizing an event in a public space or obtaining financial support for a cultural initiative. Simple, straightforward access Città di Lugano enables access to digital services through the portal, powered by Camunda Platform, that gives participants full visibility into the progress of their…
By Charley Mann
Testing DMN Tables Automatically
One key feature of DMN tables is that they enable business people to provide Business Rules in an intuitive way – like creating an Excel sheet. As a developer you get the DMNs and you integrate them into the BPMN-Process. But how can you make sure that DMN works as expected? With this in mind I started the DMN Table Tester Project with these main goals: Interested? Then let me show you how it works with this simple DMN: Configure your Test The Tester provides a simple User Interface that lets you define a DMN Test in no time. Here is an example: Run the Test This shows you that the DMN is correct: Each Test Case is one row,…
Jan 28, 2021
How can you Teach a Workflow to Execute a specific task?
If you read the first article in this series, I might have been able to convince you about executable processes? In this blog, the second in the series, I would like to go a step further and show you, with Restzeebe, how concrete tasks within processes are executed by a workflow engine. All my examples use Camunda Cloud. I don’t know of any other solution that executes workflows models in BPMN in the cloud. But now to the real thing. How can you teach a workflow to execute a specific task? I don’t want to go into too much detail, but with Camunda Cloud it works like this: Zeebe, the underlying engine, uses a PubSub system for workers. A worker is essentially the software that executes…
By Adam Urban
Jan 26, 2021
Beyond RPA: How to Build Toward End-to-end Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation has come of age, with Forrester Research predicting the RPA market revenue is on target to reach $2.9 billion this year. It’s not hard to see why this market is maturing fast, with RPA promising an easy and quick fix to automate many of the manual, repetitive tasks that require manual data input or an exchange of data with an inflexible legacy system. RPA bots can be deployed quickly and deliver an immediate productivity boost, not to mention significant cost savings. But with so many tools available on the market — you can find everything from vendors promoting low-code solutions to code-heavy approaches, all marketed under the RPA banner — it’s becoming imperative to differentiate RPA from…
By Charley Mann
Welcome to the Camunda Community Summit 2021
Camunda has always been focused on creating an excellent experience for developers everywhere who are trying to automate processes. From our days as a small process automation consulting firm to the powerful products used by hundreds around the globe, our engineering mindset and commitment to our community has always been at the heart of what we do. Out of this commitment to our community comes our first Camunda Community Summit — coming live to your laptop on April 27-28, 2021. This inaugural summit builds upon our first Community Unconference last October. The feedback we received was tremendous and people have been asking for another event like it ever since. This virtual conference, created by developers for developers, offers peer-to-peer engagement…
Jan 19, 2021
Is there an alternative to spaghetti?
When it comes to food, definitely not. Spaghetti Bolognese needs few ingredients, is quickly prepared and always tastes great – at least to me 😉 But what I am actually getting at? Spaghetti Code. In contrast to a meal, Spaghetti Code is not eaten up in a few minutes. It stays, is extended, changes, grows and grows and grows. It is the same with microservices. If you start with microservices, you always have to consider how fine-grained services are cut. In the end, the spaghetti effect shifts from code to orchestrating components. This component must know all the small services and connect them with each other. The same can be found in manual activities that have not been automated or…
By Adam Urban
