Camunda Blog
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
Jan 14, 2021
chor-js – an Editor for BPMN Choreography Diagrams
Let’s say you are craving your favorite pizza from that pizza place a ten-minute walk away. You call them up, place your order, and are then asked whether you would like to have the pizza delivered or pick it up yourself. In your mind, you think about how convenient it would be to have a delivery driver knock on your door and hand you the pizza within half an hour or so, but then again it is only a short walk, and some fresh air would really do you good… Putting somewhat existential questions aside, what we just described is a prime example for a so-called choreography in Business Process Management. Different participants (you, the pizza place and the delivery…
By Jan Ladleif, Anton von Weltzien
Jan 12, 2021
Cawemo Enterprise (On-Premises) 1.5 Released
We’re happy to announce the 1.5 release of Cawemo Enterprise On-Premises. Cawemo is the BPMN process specification platform of the Camunda stack, enabling all stakeholders to model and collaborate on process diagrams and related files. The main improvements in this release are: New UiPath template editor Cawemo provides a form-based editor for element templates that are tailored specifically to be used with Camunda’s RPA Bridge and UiPath. Template versioning You are able to manage and publish versions of the same template, allowing you to adjust templates to changes in your UiPath scripts or other task implementations. Integration with Camunda’s new identity and access management solution Camunda Account takes over the user management for Cawemo and will enable LDAP support in…
By Cawemo Team
Jan 12, 2021
Camunda Modeler 4.5 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Modeler 4.5. This release introduces the ability to handle versioned templates, improves the navigation of DMN Decision Tables and delivers various smaller improvements when modeling BPMN. Download the latest release and start modeling right away. Templates Versioning Templates allow you to configure a diagram element with predefined properties — very helpful when you work with predefined properties or reuse configuration in multiple elements. During development, you may need to change a template. This can now be achieved thanks to templates versioning. By specifying an optional `version` field in the template configuration, the Camunda Modeler can detect and handle newer versions by offering an update option. Templates created and published on Cawemo,…
