Introducing our speaker line-up and the Camunda Community Awards  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. Which is why we’re excited to share the final speaker line-up for our first ever Camunda Community Summit, taking place April 27-28, 2021.  Highlights will include presentations from: Adrianna Tan, San Francisco Digital Services, will explore Automation in Local Government Digital Services in a Post-Pandemic World.  Markus Stahl, Deutsche Post Adress GmbH presenting: Open...

A Book about Orchestration and Integration in Microservices and Cloud-Native Architectures I am happy to share that my new book called “Practical Process Automation” is officially published by O’Reilly today. In this book, I distilled my practical experience implementing process automation solutions from the last two decades. What You Will Find In The Book A general introduction to process automation and the different forms of automation An explanation of how developer-friendly process automation can be applied in modern system architectures and software development practices A hands-on guide to lightweight workflow engines and BPMN as the core elements to make this happen Architecture guidelines and best practices to implement your own process solutions A discussion of typical misconceptions around process automation...

I am excited to share that we just completed a €82 million (approximately $100 million) funding round led by Insight Partners. The round also included our existing investor Highland Europe from the Series A. You can find the official press release here. In this blog post I want to comment on this funding round in my own words and briefly walk you through the story of Camunda. But first things first: Who is Camunda and what do we do? Who is Camunda and what do we do? Camunda provides process automation software that is used by our customers, such as Allianz, ING, Vodafone, or Atlassian, to automate processes they need tailor-made for their business. In essence, Camunda provides software to build software. For example...

The Process Automation market opportunity is huge. With market estimates in excess of $10 billion for software alone, 97% of enterprise IT decision makers agree that Process Automation is vital to their digital transformation initiative. According to The State of Process Automation report, Process Automation is cited as the key driver of innovation and is the most important factor to achieve business outcomes.  Partners have long been integral to our success, which is why we recently unveiled our new Camunda Connect Partner Program that provides expanded support for organizations that develop and implement Camunda, sell Camunda, or include Camunda among their solution offerings. As part of our new program, we recently held the first-ever conference exclusively for partners: Camunda Connect...

A mammoth seven-month, 470-million-km (292,044-million-miles) journey is about to come to an end — in just a few short hours the Perseverance rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars.  But the hardest part of the journey is still to come. The descent down to the Red Planet, dubbed “seven minutes of terror” by NASA engineers, will see Perseverance slow its descent from a blistering 20,000km/h (12,427m/ph) down to a ‘slow walk’, before gently landing in Jezero Crater. A NASA illustration showing the Perseverance heat shield separation, which will occur during descent today — Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Mission Control expects to receive confirmation that it has hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at around 21:48 CET / 15:48 EST...

Camunda’s long-standing partnerships have been integral to our success, developing solutions for end-to-end process automation for global clients. Which is why we’re launching the Camunda Connect Partner Program, providing expanded support for organizations that develop and implement Camunda, sell Camunda, or include Camunda among their solution offerings.  We’re excited to launch this all-new program with more than 100 participating organizations, including some of the world’s largest global system integrators, strategically focused local and regional firms, sales and technology partners. We’ve designed Camunda Connect to maximize our value in helping partners grow and we’re increasing our investments and expanding coverage to help partners improve their skills and create powerful, profitable value-added solutions for their customers. Participating partners receive a range of...

Helping NGOs and Non-Profits around the world reach even more individuals Mission-driven organizations are often short-staffed, insufficiently funded, and underestimated. Our new program, Camunda for Common Good, offers an opportunity to give back to organizations that are making a tangible difference in the lives of people around the world. There’s a need for process automation and making operations more efficient no matter what industry you’re in and no matter who you’re serving, but the potential for NGOs and non-profit organizations, in particular, to vastly increase their impact on the world through automation, is compelling. With the launch of Camunda for Common Good, we’re bringing our powerful process automation platform, combined with our expert knowledge, to support qualified NGOs and non-profit...

If you’re a fan of JUnit5 for testing on the JVM, we have good news — there’s a brand-new library available: camunda-bpm-junit5, published as a community extension for Camunda BPM. The project is now available on Maven central, so you can start testing your processes with the latest technology. Getting started To add the extension to your project, just add the Maven dependency to your pom file: <dependency> <groupId>org.camunda.bpm.extension</groupId> <artifactId>camunda-bpm-junit5</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> Add the dependencies to JUnit 5 if you don’t already have them (they are included in the spring-boot-starter-test artifact): <dependency> <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId> <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId> <version>5.6.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> To start testing you can extend your test class with the ProcessEngineExtension: This injects the ProcessEngine configured in the camunda.cfg.xml file into...