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Mar 19, 2013
Independent BPM Analyst Sandy Kemsley writes about the Camunda BPM launch on column2: https://www.column2.com/2013/03/stick-a-open-source-fork-in-it-camunda-bpm-splits-from-activiti/
By Daniel Meyer
Mar 18, 2013
I am proud to announce that today Camunda launches a new open source BPM project: Camunda BPM. At this juncture we part ways with the Activiti project which we have contributed to since the first days. Leaving Activiti is a sad but necessary step for us. Starting as a consulting company, we have built a customer base of 250+ in little over 4 years. Last year, we entered the BPM vendor business with the Camunda fox BPM platform. Our success and the positive feedback we got from customers made us realize that we have to go all-in. Today, we drop the “fox”-brand and as Camunda BPM, we embark on the journey of building the best BPM platform, under our own leadership & vision. We…
By Daniel Meyer
Jun 15, 2012
This blog was originally published in 2012 and updated in April 2021 by Nele Uhlemann In a famous article, Gregor Hohpe describes four strategies for dealing with failures in a business transaction: How does BPMN 2.0 and Camunda Platform deal with such problems and exceptions? Here are some experiments I made. Compensation In BPMN 2.0 we can model compensation explicitly: If I detect that I have no milk after making coffee, I throw the coffee away. It is important not to serve coffee without milk, even at the expense of having an unsatisfied customer. By the way, using compensations is a powerful way to roll back Sagas. More about Sagas in the following paragraph. The Saga Pattern instead of a…
By Daniel Meyer
